psychnurse96

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1. What's Your Best Nursing Ghost Story?

   psychnurse96 replied to steffck's topic in General Nursing

   I've heard of that too. Same story, lots of patients who are terminal, and confused do talk about a black dog, or dogs. I never attributed it to much, other than confusion, but now that you mention it...

2. What's Your Best Nursing Ghost Story?

   psychnurse96 replied to steffck's topic in General Nursing

   I was working at the local State Hospital a couple of years ago. I went onto the unit at the beginning of my shift-around two o'clock in the afternoon. Upon my arrival, I immediatley noticed that the "energy level" on the unit felt unusualy high. Not...

3. Anyone know about Demerol?

   psychnurse96 replied to melissa svn's topic in LPN/LVN

   This was a short and sweet message! Very well said!

4. No More Demerol?

   psychnurse96 replied to General E. Speaking, RN's topic in General Nursing

   "Don't the drugs have to be more similar than Morphine/Dilaudid and Demerol? I can see maybe Percocet to Tylox (same basic stuff) but Demerol is not equivalent. BTW my insurance MerckMedco has just removed protonix from its preferred drug list." You ...

5. No More Demerol?

   psychnurse96 replied to General E. Speaking, RN's topic in General Nursing

   I realize this thread could go on indefinitley. I think all of you had very good points to make, and I agree in some regard to the "phasing out" of the Demerol, but speaking as a patient with a hx of multiple back surgeries, I did have very good resu...

6. No More Demerol IV Push???

   psychnurse96 replied to VickyRN's topic in Emergency

   I have found all of the posts very interesting on this subject. I work predominantly in psych, but we too, have stopped using Meperidine hcl as a whole. The main reason being what was previously posted-the anxiety, tremors, etc. There does seem to b...