Caro

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1. PERSONALITY DISORDER/SELF ABUSE

   Caro replied to BarbRPN's topic in Psychiatric

   My hospital has used Narcan for self mutilating patients with varying results. It seems to work best for those patients who are motivated to stop their behaviour.

2. Intra-muscular injections

   Caro replied to bryan01's topic in Psychiatric

   Bryan I'm a bit puzzled by your question regarding changing needles after drawing up medication. Using the same needle is one of the major causes of abcesses.You are coating the needle with whatever chemical you are drawing up ! Blechhhhh ! I also th...

3. Critical Incident

   Caro replied to lennim's topic in Emergency

   I agree that no-one should be subjected to disciplinary action if there was no infringement of procedure/protocol.I assume that the argument did not impact adveresly on patient care. A debriefing would be advisable for all involved. Was it the physic...

4. What Freaks You Out?

   Caro replied to JennieBSN's topic in General Nursing

   Not a completely unknown scenario ! My fiance nursed a guy who was psychotically depressed and performed a bit of do it yourself eye removal. poor guy removed both eyes within seconds. Alas nurses are not gifted with telepathic powers and sometimes y...

5. What Freaks You Out?

   Caro replied to JennieBSN's topic in General Nursing

   Of course there is carrot in there ! The carrot man sneaks up behind the vomiter and throws diced carrot over their shoulder while they vomit ! However, an italian friend of mine swears she always finds tinned tomato ! Caroline

6. What Freaks You Out?

   Caro replied to JennieBSN's topic in General Nursing

   Alas , this lady died in our care....probably from a PE. I say probably because we couldn't fit her in the elevator to take her to the pm lab. Caroline

7. What Freaks You Out?

   Caro replied to JennieBSN's topic in General Nursing

   Hi Goofball 76 stones is 1064 pounds. We are talking about one VERY big woman ! Caroline:eek:

8. What Freaks You Out?

   Caro replied to JennieBSN's topic in General Nursing

   For me the number one horror is.......SPUTUM. False teeth make me feel a bit "unusual "...and the never forgotten smell of malaena is fairly vile. My worst experience ever was putting a Foley in a 76 stone woman .... I should have worn a snorkel. I h...

9. Psych Nurse seventeen years

   Caro replied to mary0507's topic in Psychiatric

   I definitely agree that Psych is not an ideal choice for new nursing grads. The Comprehensive Degree in Nursing currently in favour here gives very little exposure to Psychiatric settings and very basic theoretical content. Hospital management has a ...

10. should psych patients be held accountable?

    Caro replied to psychnurse01's topic in Psychiatric

    Hi Don You're right - the Australian Nursing Federation is very active ! We are currently working with the Union to get an acceptable outcome to this situation - unfortunately in this particular hospital many of the nurses don't believe in charging p...

11. should psych patients be held accountable?

    Caro replied to psychnurse01's topic in Psychiatric

    Hi This thread has touched on one of my long standing gripes ! I have found the issue of patient accountabilty varies tremendously from hospital to hospital.The first Psych Unit I worked in had a policy that any patient who assaulted a staff member ...