Cameelrn

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1. Potassium piggybacks

   Cameelrn replied to starcandy's topic in General Nursing

   Running 20-40 meq KCL makes sense...though it can only be done with a central line...but 10 meq is just frustrating! It takes an hour to run in into a peripheral line and you know you could get 20 meq PO on board quicker than you could the IV (2 hour...

2. Patients Who Are Prisoners

   Cameelrn replied to Cameelrn's topic in General Nursing

   I'm glad there are nurses like you who can care for patients who come from prisons. I do not have difficulty with it, but I might if I knew what crime they committed. It is not my job to judge, but being a survivor of such people has left me with som...

3. Patients Who Are Prisoners

   Cameelrn replied to Cameelrn's topic in General Nursing

   I have really enjoyed this thread. It has stirred up a lot of thoughts. Originally it was put out there to discuss physical security, but it seems to have brought out more on the attitude of the staff toward the patient-prisoner. Isn't that typical o...

4. Patients Who Are Prisoners

   Cameelrn replied to Cameelrn's topic in General Nursing

   That's exactly why I don't want to know what my prisoner-patients did. We are pretty strict about that. Sometimes a guard will try to tell me and I'll tell them to stop that I'm afraid knowing will affect the care I give. I think it is human to be af...

5. Patients Who Are Prisoners

   Cameelrn replied to Cameelrn's topic in General Nursing

   That's exactly why I don't have my last name on my name tag.

6. Should all nursing students be required to be a CNA for one year?

   Cameelrn replied to SophieMae's topic in General Nursing

   I'm pretty much in agreement with you. Actually, I think we would benefit from having RNs work as LPNs first, too. And let's not leave the doctors out. The best doctors I know were nurses first. Instead of saying for a year, though, I think we could ...

7. Patients Who Are Prisoners

   Cameelrn replied to Cameelrn's topic in General Nursing

   The prisoners (or whatever you choose to call those who are normally incarcerated in a prison) who need so many guards (or whatever...), including those outside, are federal prisoners and, now it's only a guess here, but I think it's a logical one, t...

8. Ethical Dilemma

   Cameelrn replied to kmcmillan's topic in Student Assist

   I hope I won't find out what my prisoner-patient's are guilty of. I know it would affect how I feel about them if they were sexual predators. I found out a cute older gentleman that I enjoyed having as a patient had beat his wife to death, and it cha...

9. Patients Who Are Prisoners

   Cameelrn posted a topic in General Nursing

   How do you manage patients who need to be guarded? In our hospital they are in the general population and have the number of guards appropriate to their status. We refer to them by a number or initials so that families, friends, and perhaps enemies, ...

10. New Grad question

    Cameelrn replied to mrdoc2005's topic in Cardiac

    I started out on a cardiac (telemetry) floor right out of school. I learned that in our hospital, where we do open heart, there is plenty of opportunity for medical/surgical experience. We also get a lot of patients who have MIs during surgery or sho...

11. Reason of hypernention in Post CABG OP

    Cameelrn replied to nurse_kambiz's topic in Cardiac

    Uh, oh. If spelling errors are a problem then I haven't a chance here. Don't sweat the small stuff.

12. Considering LPN school--Questions....

    Cameelrn replied to johnwe's topic in General Nursing

    From the time I could speak, when people asked me what I wanted to be I said "A nurse and a mommy." I wasn't blessed with kids and it took me 44 years to begin nursing school. The only reason I began it then was that, like you, I was at a crossroads ...

13. Where do you keep your stethescope?

    Cameelrn replied to Still Riding's topic in Uniform/Gear

    I feel naked without my Littman around my neck! I have bought and made covers for it. That helps a lot. I have scratched my name into the bell and work in an area where a stethescope is protected for the owner (amazing!). In fact a co-worker dropped ...

14. Potassium piggybacks

    Cameelrn replied to starcandy's topic in General Nursing

    It seems like it would be easier to just give PO k+ but when the patient complains of burning, I do like the originator of this thread and run it (with a second pump) as a primary so that it is mixing and being diluted by the primary, rather than as ...

15. Anyone go to Alaska?

    Cameelrn replied to Headhurt's topic in Travel

    I lived in Kenai, Alaska for a little over two years. I really liked it but didn't like being so far away from the few family members I have, so I moved back to the lower 48. Summertime is wonderful, but you have to prepare for some amount of dayligh...