Do you consider an infiltrated IV a medical emergency

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Left the ER for outpatient...today we had a patients IV infiltrate normal saline. The tech called me and let me know the infusion was stopped, IV removed and a compress applied. Pt in no distress. I was behind schedule and working with a patient so I let them know I’d be down in a minute to eval. My non nurse manager is hemming me up for not dropping everything and running down to that “medical emergency” .

??? lawd I ain’t know that was an emergency like that LOL

[2BS Nurse, BSN]

My dog had hypodermoclysis once. She looked like a camel!

Do ERs really hire non-nurse managers? That seems dangerous.

[Kooky Korky, BSN, RN]

hypodermoclysis

[Kooky Korky, BSN, RN]

On 2/21/2020 at 3:54 PM, KatieMI said:

Honestly, do not know should I cry or laugh out loud after reading in. Although I once had a NM who called facility-wide "biohazard code" after seeing a coumadin pill wrapper being dropped on floor.

SMH and ROFLMBO

Wow, I have really come into the modern age!

I think it's still against TOS to use those whatever they are called initials. Sorry, it was too hard to resist. ?

[KatieMI, BSN, MSN, RN]

17 minutes ago, Kooky Korky said:

SMH and ROFLMBO

Wow, I have really come into the modern age!

I think it's still against TOS to use those whatever they are called initials. Sorry, it was too hard to resist. ?

You know, it was not funny for me at that point. I was still very green and going through acute phase of PTSD caused by bullying on previous job, and she was publicly threatening me with Boards and such. It was the same NM who gave patient my personal info and let him know how access Boards so that "someone would figure out why THAT girl with broken English works at the place of some real American nurse" (racial/Trumpish slur in abundance in between).

For the honesty's sake it was she who eventually ended up being grilled alive with hot sauce before the said Boards and retired with big black mark on her license and the patient who ended up in business of "Mr. such-and-such vs. United States of America".