Meds you hate to give....

nursediz · Dec 18, 2005

breathing treatments on alert patients.....ooooommmmmmmmggggggg...they can't talk b.c. they are breathing it in....their room is usually a thousand degrees....watching the lawrence welk show at full blast....and i always stand b.c. i feel lazy if i sit.....oooo the time just draaaaaaaaaaaaaags...

grammyr · Dec 18, 2005

Thanks for the great tip on giving GT meds!
Also, there is a replacement for Mucomyst? What is it?
Thanks,
Oldiebutgoodie

The replacement is called Acetadote. Much easier to give and without the smell. I am trying to get our facility to put it on formulary.

fluffwad · Dec 18, 2005

a skippy enema. gahhhhhhhh maybe that's more of a procedure. lol

what? i've been a nurse 22 years and never heard of this one! haven't heard of the milk & molasses thing either.......but we used have have the 'black & white' mom+cascara ( or warm prune jc).

fluffwad · Dec 18, 2005

I was thinking the Go-Lytly too. We call it Go - Explosively.:chuckle

Did you know there's a SF hard candy out there named Go-Lytely?

UM Review RN, ASN, RN · Dec 18, 2005

Did you know there's a SF hard candy out there named Go-Lytely?

No, I didn't. Could you post a link on that, please?

fluffwad · Dec 18, 2005

Looks like I mis-spelled it ..........oops........its Go-Lightly ( stll that's not that far off). I've seen it in drug store too.

http://www.candywarehouse.com/golightlysf.html

http://www.groovycandies.com/V2brand_ProdName.asp?mfg_id=140

UM Review RN, ASN, RN · Dec 18, 2005

Looks like I mis-spelled it ..........oops........its Go-Lightly ( stll that's not that far off). I've seen it in drug store too.
http://www.candywarehouse.com/golightlysf.html
http://www.groovycandies.com/V2brand_ProdName.asp?mfg_id=140

Thanks for the link, Fluff. I was hoping, with eyes squeezed tight and fingers and toes crossed, that there was an alternative to forcing my 70 # LOLs to drink that whole gallon of stuff in 3 hours.

allnurses Guide · Dec 18, 2005

Anything that has anything to do with a bowel prep. (4 Dulcolax pills, Mag Citrate, NuLytely)

TPN... it has a funky smell, like saurkraut or something. If the stuff gets spilled, it smells up the whole unit.

NoCrumping · Dec 18, 2005

Laxatives or any thing else that a person can go to the pharmacy and buy and take themselves.

RaggedyRN · Dec 18, 2005

Nitro paste...I try not to touch it ...it really gives me a pounding headache. It never fails that I have to put a patch on when I am really busy, skip the gloves...then grab the tube that the previous nurse gunked up without wiping it off:angryfire

Chickey:)

ohiomom · Dec 18, 2005

What are the top medications that you hate to give and why?
Mine is Amphotericin B (called "Ampho-terrible" at my hospital).
Anything that can't mix with Normal Saline makes me nervous. It makes me wonder what's going to happen when it gets into the vein--isn't blood a fairly salty environment?

I work bone marrow transplant, and eventually all of our pt's are on ampho or abelcet. I, knock on wood, luckily have not had a pt react and chill with ampho. But the other night, one nurse had 3 of her 4 pt's chill and rigor with it. One of them even has a 1/2 way med added. An hour before he gets 50 benadryl IV, 100 solucortef IV and 650 tylenol po. Then 1/2 way through the ampho he gets an additional 25 benadryl iv and still chills/rigors. So, now I know if I ever have him, I think I may run it a bit slower than normal...don't know

midwife2b · Dec 18, 2005

Carboprost (Hemabate). Especially during a C-Section. I know that 99% of the time I will have to clean up a HUGE amount of poop!!!