Dangerous nurses

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Have any of you ever worked with a nurse you would classify as dangerous ---- dangerous as a nurse and as a person?

Fortunately, the patients lived!

Heparin has a very short half life...within about 4 hours its out of your system...

this was a few years ago.... I am sure we gave her some Protamine Sulfate...

that would fix it!

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Specializes in Head trauma Rehab, NeuroPsych 3.

Thanks for giving all nurses that have given excelence over the years (28 years as an RN so far and counting) the best of care every day, every shift, for every patient.. Alot of schools don't teach caring and class, many newer grads don't have a clue and are only manipulated by employers to become machines, and that only makes the entire industry suffer with less staffing and bigger patient loads, until something happends and patients and nurses suffer injury!

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from lovehospital

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a patient had a high potassium level and the doctor ordered kayexelate but she did not d/c the k+ and for two days the nurses gave the patient both the potassium and the kayexelate

i have worked with so many lazy, incompetent nurses i have lost count...tptb believe that a warm body with a license is the answer to all their problems

Ok I like your thinking but maybe there is a underlying cause of why there are so many dangerous nurses,perhaps some of the instructors are in the blame game here....there are many nursing isntructors who dont tolerate when the student ask a question concering a patient lab value,med,procedure etc..they expect us to be perfect...I dont even bother to ask questions anymore mainly to the fact that I received rude replies consisting of such lovely supportive words as "You should know this","Why are you asking that",Excuse me I'm not perfect,I'm here to learn and I dont remember everything I learned a year ago...and I dont practice my skills in the hospital everyday,nor havent I been a nursing instructor for the last 10 years....I love asking question and I never think I know everything because that would be a serious lie however I become discourage by nursing instructors for some time now,I hope that doesnt make me a dangerous nursing student.

lovehospital: even though i cannot comment on the clinical or pharmaco part i can definitely relate with you on the instructors' attitudes. I belonged to a nursing program where one instructor was famous and feared for such attitude, while the (private) nursing school was doing nothing about her attitude. Unfortunately, there are such instructors who find such attitudes/answers such as: "You should know this" or "Why are you asking this" more instructive/useful to nursing than cherishing such a student who verifies/makes sure he/she does the right thing and has the willingness to learn. Oddly enough, that same program was teaching us to always ask because Oh! the charge nurse will love such a newbie nurse who'd rather ask and verify before doing bad things to PTs... Yes! such instructors do exist and they should be removed, because many students will react like a turttle to their (unhealthy) teaching methods.

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The most dangerous is the apathetic nurse.

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The most dangerous is the apathetic nurse.

hmm,somehow I dont find it to be true...what apathy has to do with being safe,I'm confused....just because someone jumps from one place to another doesnt make them accountable nurse,please free to elaborate on your theory

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Specializes in Rehab, Infection, LTC.

i know a nurse that is for lack of a better word...judgemental. she will make a judgement about a situation and that is that. nothing can be said to change her mind. for example...she might decide the patient is not really in pain, therefore he doesnt need pain meds. or a pt doesnt need IVs for hydration because they are just gonna die anyways.

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i know a nurse that is for lack of a better word...judgemental. she will make a judgement about a situation and that is that. nothing can be said to change her mind. for example...she might decide the patient is not really in pain, therefore he doesnt need pain meds. or a pt doesnt need IVs for hydration because they are just gonna die anyways.

Maybe her true calling is to be a judge..

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Specializes in Rehab, Infection, LTC.
Maybe her true calling is to be a judge..

haha, maybe it is.

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Specializes in alzeheimers, skilled, assis. living.

things do happen to them sometimes. We had a supervisor that was a non caring cna, med tech. Screamed at us when we did extra care for the patients. Saying we were making her job harder. Loving your patient and giving them words of encouragement is my main goal.

This particular supervisor got fired a few days ago for drug use. So sometime s they do get found out in what is causing them so much animousity.

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Specializes in Pyschiatry/Behavioral (Inpatient).

I don't quite understand why some think HYPOglycemia is safer than HYPERglycemia. I'd rather have my patient be 200 than

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Specializes in Pyschiatry/Behavioral (Inpatient).

That's because it is. A 200 sugar won't kill a patient. It'll just keep going up until someone notices it and gives them insulin.

A sugar of 50 and someone doesn't catch it, the patient feels light headed and "sleeps"; it goes to 40, then 30, and they look like they're having a stroke. That's why if you suspect stroke, you always check a sugar to rule out hypoglycemia.

I am NOT a fan of TGC for the fact that it will cause hypoglycemic episodes. It is appropriate for the right patients, but many hospitals go overboard with it.

Every anesthesiologist I've ever worked with will tell you this. They would much rather have someone be high than low.

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Wow there is a ton of criticism here about agency nurses.

Hint: We aren't all stupid, drug addicted, or alcoholics, and we don't ALL neglect our patients. If it were not for agency nurses, where would the patients be?

I have had patients literally BEG me to return to the facility, because they know I care, and are aware that I do my job. Apparently this is not common, or they wouldn't be begging. I sometimes cry when I go to facilities because I know I cannot bear to return to them---they are nursing licenses waiting to be taken there. Dangerous facilities are something that has not yet been addressed here, so I won't go into that, but please realize that agency nurses are sometimes the only hope patients in many facilities have left.

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