LadyZad

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1. The Doctor oncall told me not to call him

   LadyZad replied to catrn10's topic in Safety

   We have to remember that our licenses do not cover practicing medicine, which means we cannot write orders on our own. Most of us know enough that we could just about write every order ever given by an md, but we follow the rules because we know tha...

2. Funny names

   LadyZad replied to LoriUSAFRN's topic in Humor

   We have a gastrointestinal MD whose name is Dr Colon.

3. Direct Admits

   LadyZad replied to MissdonditaBsn's topic in General Nursing

   We also received direct admits at the hospital I work at. They are about 60% of our admissions. If the patient is in admitting and the clerks there can see the pt requires immediate attention, they will just send the pt to the ER first to be seen t...

4. cranberry juice vs. cranberry capsules

   LadyZad replied to ShortFuse_LPN's topic in General Nursing

   Cranberry tablets!! What a great idea! I have never heard of them. I also have frequent problems with UTIs, very bothersome. In the past I would drink a lot of cranberry juice to help treat the infection, but I really dislike the high sugar conte...

5. Wound care

   LadyZad replied to Nursenan0's topic in Geriatric

   I am glad I could be of help! Good luck with the pulsavac treatment!

6. Patient care delivery systems

   LadyZad replied to LadyZad's topic in General Nursing

   Thank you everyone for your imput. On my floor we do tean nursing (RN/LPN/CNA) for about 11 pts. It works okay, but it is a lot of work for the RN. Other floors in my hospital do primary nursing (5-7) pts a piece. I was wondering if anyone has a...

7. Making charting intelligable

   LadyZad replied to ohbet's topic in General Nursing

   To help keep track of all the events that I want to chart on later, I make small notes on my notes about the patients (I call my "brains"). Such are 0900 darvocet next to my report on a particular patient. Or 1000 dressing changed. And then later ...

8. Wound care

   LadyZad replied to Nursenan0's topic in Geriatric

   The treatment your talking about is called pulsivax (sp?). Basically a high powered irrigation/cleansing system. I know our physical therapy wound care team uses it but it don't know any more details then that. I'll ask them next time I'm at work ...

9. Patient care delivery systems

   LadyZad posted a topic in General Nursing

   I have been asked to chair a committee at my hospital to research patient care delivery systems (ie team nursing, primary nursing, buddy systems, etc) to explore different ways that nursing care is done. I am looking for imput/resourses about what m...