greyseal

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1. dangerous driving conditions and work

   greyseal replied to fleurafor's topic in New York

   You go to work, we are included in essential personnel :)

2. What's you highest...?

   greyseal replied to talaxandra's topic in General Nursing

   Sodium 180. I work at a large teaching hosp and no one had ever seen a person live with this level. Triglyceride level - 2500, his blood was almost white. Cholesterol was 400 also. Lowest glucose - 6, highest - 1200. Both recovered. In end-stage re...

3. Things Med students/residents have taught me

   greyseal replied to harry Krishna's topic in General Nursing

   That 150 mg of Trazadone is not a good dose for a pt requesting a "sleeper" who has never taken it before. :chuckle

4. What's your "Dead Patient" story?

   greyseal replied to Scavenger'sWife's topic in General Nursing

   I had been out of school 3 months working at a SNF. The pt was a 99 year old woman dying when I started my shift at 3 pm. She had a temperature of about 104 at least and was totally unresponsive. The biggest snowstorm in years started at about 2pm....

5. Diuresing Question

   greyseal replied to RNinRubySlippers's topic in General Nursing

   No meds that would cause diuresis. He was on very few medications. I don't remember exactly what he got in the OR but it was not anywhere compared to what he put out. I would not have been so concerned had it been over a longer period of time but ...

6. Diuresing Question

   greyseal replied to RNinRubySlippers's topic in General Nursing

   Just a little more info on my pt. He had IVF d/c'd the day before and had only taken in about 15OO cc PO. Also no diabetes, had very little medical hx. Thanks

7. Diuresing Question

   greyseal replied to RNinRubySlippers's topic in General Nursing

   I also had the same question with a post-op ortho patient. He was 2 days post-op. Pt could not void after pulling foley. So we put another back in, put out 1400 cc. In the next 12 hours he put out 6000cc of yellow urine, not diluted at all. Vital...

8. Help To Prevent Any More Mistakes!!!

   greyseal replied to MQ Edna's topic in General Nursing

   Hi, One of the ways it is also easy to give 10 times the dose of insulin is to use a tuberculin syringe instead. I have seen it happen twice, once given and once caught before it was given. I believe it was also written up in one of the Nursing maga...

9. Staffing issues

   greyseal posted a topic in Cardiac

   Hi, Sorry about the first post. I work in a new tele unit. I am charge on nights. I have also have pts myself. We do interventional cath, all gtts, post surgical tele pts, acute MI, CVA, and any other service if we have an open bed, such as colon-rec...

10. New grad staffing on speciality units

    greyseal posted a topic in General Nursing

    Hi I work on a new telemetry unit, 21 beds. Our new unit is staffed with 75% new grads and nurses with less than one year experience, the rest of us have differing backgrounds, sub-acute, long-term care, med-surg. No one has any experience with tel...