If you were out of 50/50 insulin and had a patient with the order, what would you do? If you had no 50/50 but plenty of N and R available, would you just draw it up yourself?
2 weeks ago one of the LPNs was out of 50/50. I am the nursing supervisor in our LTC. She needed 20 units. I told her to use 10 of N and 10 of R.
Now there is some, um..shall we say...drama at our facility because 2 other LPNs are telling all the other nurses that the nurse I told to do that is going to lose her license because she "mixed" insulin.
I calmed her today and even called the pharmacist at the hospital so he could tell her what she did was correct.
I feel like beating my head against the nearest brick wall:rolleyes: .
