wanderingRound

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1. is it just me?

   wanderingRound replied to Spritenurse1210's topic in General Nursing

   Loved it, can totally relate!

2. is it just me?

   wanderingRound replied to Spritenurse1210's topic in General Nursing

   Sorry you've been going through a rough time at work lately. It seems where I work (a busy surgical unit) we go through phases of having absolutely crazy patients/families like you described above, and then we go through stretches of having great pat...

3. Ever take care of a patient for a while to later find out...

   wanderingRound replied to wanderingRound's topic in General Nursing

   They were checking sputum because they were trying to figure out why his WBC count was in the 20's, not trying to rule out MRSA.

4. Ever take care of a patient for a while to later find out...

   wanderingRound replied to wanderingRound's topic in General Nursing

   What happens all the time... getting sued for something like that, or taking care of patients and later finding out they had something nasty?

5. Ever take care of a patient for a while to later find out...

   wanderingRound replied to wanderingRound's topic in General Nursing

   No, but I'm one of the nurses who took care of him and could have overlooked the microbiology results which resulted in an extra day(s) he could have been in isolation.

6. Ever take care of a patient for a while to later find out...

   wanderingRound posted a topic in General Nursing

   They had some sort of disease/illness you could have transmitted from them but nobody realized they had the condition until later on? I had a patient from prison this last week and I took care of him for a total of 6 nights (12 hour shifts) to find ...