NurseNili

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1. Did a Magnet attract you?

   NurseNili replied to Kim O'Therapy's topic in Career Support

   well, in the ed, nursing ratios don't really apply, sometimes i only have two patients and sometimes i have six, depending on how busy it is. but the floors have strict ratios, and they are very particular about how many patients they have...they wo...

2. Lasix and Foley for female patients..automatic ?

   NurseNili replied to carachel2's topic in Emergency

   here in my ed, chf patients are placed on lasix drips, and we have to do very careful intake and outputs, so we can titrate our lasix drip. most of the patients placed on these drips come in very sob and become more sob upon exertion. i will place ...

3. Did a Magnet attract you?

   NurseNili replied to Kim O'Therapy's topic in Career Support

   my facility is a magnet status hospital, one of only three on the west coast. i can tell you, having that prestige is pretty nice for a few reasons. it makes the salaries for nurses go up automatically, because magnet facilities want to attract onl...

4. Physically attacked on the job?

   NurseNili replied to KungFuFtr's topic in General Nursing

   if you work in the ed, like me, you most likely have been attacked or assaulted some time in your career. i have been assaulted a few times, threatened many times, too many times to count. the worse assault was a 14 year old female who was combativ...

5. Your Worst Mistake

   NurseNili replied to aurora_borealis's topic in General Nursing

   here's a few of the mistakes i have made in my illustrious nursing career: not getting enough sleep between shifts and being dead tired at work, which distorts judgment and critical thinking skills; mistaking "unit" for "cc" (read: gave wayyyyyy too...

6. propofol

   NurseNili replied to popbob's topic in Emergency

   we are trying to get propofol (aka milk of amnesia) into our ed to sedate our ventilator dependent patients while boarding them when there are no icu beds. it is a great drug for just that, but we use versed for conscious sedation. ketamine is used...