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1. NG residuals

   kbear posted a topic in Med-Surg

   What do you do with your NG residuals? Do you discard or push them back in?

2. iv tigan??

   kbear replied to kbear's topic in Med-Surg

   Unfortunately, I gave the drug despite my knowing inside that I shouldn't. I trusted the other nurse's actions and let myself down. It won't ever happen again, that's for sure!!

3. iv tigan??

   kbear replied to kbear's topic in Med-Surg

   It just happened last night so not sure how the patient is doing now. Our unit pharmacist is going to let the first pharmacist know of his erroneous advice.

4. iv tigan??

   kbear posted a topic in Med-Surg

   Another nurse and I were covering patients for a nurse who was late for work. One of her patients was ordered iv Tigan . The patient was retching loudly and had already received a prn dose of zofran a few hours earlier as well as phenergan a few hou...

5. Promethazine IV Question

   kbear replied to PMercier's topic in Safety

   Our instituiton has a policy that any dose of IV phenergan has to be diluted in 50cc NS and piggybacked over 15 minutes. The Institute of Safe Medication Practice(ISMP) has a website that references awful cases of sloughing and necrosis of tissue an...

6. Lovenox(enoxaparin) SQ

   kbear replied to sharann's topic in Medications

   Thank you everyone who replied---it's great to have peer input at the touch of my fingers!!

7. Lovenox(enoxaparin) SQ

   kbear replied to sharann's topic in Medications

   In some cases, you can't give it in the abdomen because of extensive wounds and/or dressings--what then?

8. New OSHA Needlestick Fact Sheet Validates Adhesive Anchors

   kbear replied to hbscott's topic in Safety

   Our institution has PICC lines placed in interventional radiology and secured with the statlock device. We found out that they should be replaced weekly which coincides with our dressing change policy. Problem is, they are a bear to change. It doesn'...