stonette

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1. To flush or not to flush...advice please.

   stonette replied to lovingtheunloved's topic in General Nursing

   For patients in nursing/private homes, we tend to use SL Roxinol and Ativan, both routinely and PRN. It is generally easy to give and well tolerated in palliative pts. For pts. in an inpatient setting (where they are more likely to already have IV ...

2. To flush or not to flush...advice please.

   stonette replied to lovingtheunloved's topic in General Nursing

   I am a hospice nurse, and understand the confusion about usage of the sub-q "buttons." Some local hospices use them, but we do not, and for a reason that I don't see stated here. When buttons are used for one medication and not flushed between, each ...

3. RN's after gastric bypass

   stonette replied to cinja's topic in General Nursing

   I had a "hand assisted laparascopic" RNY in 2004. On day 4 post-op (before leaving the hospital,) I developed an intestinal obstruction from kinked bowel, which required re-operation in an open fashion. So essentially I had an open RNY. I lost 130# w...