jpetrunis

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1. Medical Terminology & Abbrevations Game :)

   jpetrunis replied to Florence NightinFAIL's topic in General Nursing

   yes, that's the real meaning of the abbreviation. unfortunately, he uses it for schizoaffective disorder, which is something quite different!

2. Medical Terminology & Abbrevations Game :)

   jpetrunis replied to Florence NightinFAIL's topic in General Nursing

   Borderline Personality Disorder (much better at these when they're in my specialty), XXXX Unfortunately one of our docs uses it to mean "Bipolar Disorder" He also uses: ADAD SAD (not for its real meaning, but I'll give credit for both) SUC SPC and so...

3. Medical Terminology & Abbrevations Game :)

   jpetrunis replied to Florence NightinFAIL's topic in General Nursing

   please tell me it's not "oy"s per minute....

4. Question for experienced nurses about caring for "marginal" clients.

   jpetrunis replied to PHStudent's topic in Psychiatric

   Check out your state's policies regarding follow-up care services that people may be entitled to, and if there are none, work for change. If those services are available, make sure that the right contact/referral is made. Example: in my "former lif...

5. Elective Primary C/S

   jpetrunis replied to Gem97's topic in Ob/Gyn

   Thank you for that comment, judy. After reading the rest of this thread I was wondering if anyone else felt this way.

6. Nursing students and new nurses.....about injection sites

   jpetrunis replied to TazziRN's topic in Medications

   Recent grad of a school in PA... as someone mentioned, we did have to learn sites, landmarks, gauges, angles, max mL per site, etc... in first semester. As far as testing, we had to demonstrate once then and once right before graduation, but it was ...