quirkystar

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1. Patient's family requesting pain medication

   quirkystar posted a topic in Safety

   A couple of times I have had comfort care patients(meaning that treatment is stopped and only measures to improve comfort are taken such as pain medications, and repositioning) where the patients themselves do not look like they are actively in pain ...

2. Do comfort care patients get oxygen?

   quirkystar posted a topic in Safety

   I had this patient who is actively dying and basically "comfort care" meaning treatment was stopped and measures to improve comfort are placed. If the patient's O2 is dropping from a previously >92% level, but is not showing any discomfort or res...

3. How to obtain a tracheal aspirate

   quirkystar posted a topic in General Nursing

   The infectious disease doctor put an order in for a sputum culture: tracheal aspirate and I didn't know how to obtain this(patient has a tracheostomy). No one else on my floor knew either. I thought maybe it required suctioning?

4. 3 months in and feeling incompetent

   quirkystar replied to quirkystar's topic in New Nurse

   Thank you for your feedback! It's really nice to get responses and maks me feel there is hope in this world lol.

5. 3 months in and feeling incompetent

   quirkystar posted a topic in New Nurse

   Hi Everyone! Just joined this forum after being a longtime-lurker. So I started my first nursing job about three months ago on an Oncology/MedSurg floor after graduating with my BSN last May. I work evening shift and overall I have been surviving t...