mahjia

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1. Share Your Funniest Patient Stories...

   mahjia replied to Trvln Nurse's topic in Humor

   I am not sure if i'd consider this one funny but maybe amusing. A mother of G3P2 was admitted in the ward. The OB doctor came to examine her and only 2 cm and not in pain. Thus the doctor ordered for Prostin and was received 2mg.I returned to her roo...

2. Pitocin d/c?

   mahjia replied to romantic's topic in Ob/Gyn

   But pitocin is only used to further progress labor, means it does used only for one-time-setting. It wont take days. Unless it was ordered with lacking assessment and found later that it is contraindicated that it needed to d/c.

3. Just 5 quick questions

   mahjia replied to Sizzle's topic in General Nursing

   1. what makes me prepared for the job is the education and trainings i took and takin in. 2. the hardest part, honestly, is being bugged by our conscience (see, we are dealin with human life here so we should be intellectual, knowledgeable , and do e...

4. arrest meds

   mahjia replied to xviii-xxv's topic in General Nursing

   shes right! LOL! dont mean to offend you... hail philippine nurses! LOL!

5. PTSD- Am I alone??

   mahjia replied to strugglingnurse's topic in Disabilities

   no sweety, you are not alone. coz i myself was sexualy abused too as a little young one. i never told it to my family or to friends...maybe bcoz unconsciously i am ashamed. so i kept it to myself for a long time and that leaded me to the situation ur...

6. Drug seeking patients?

   mahjia replied to butter's topic in Safety

   well, we cant judge our patient regarding pain issues noh coz pain indeed is unique to every individual. what we'll just ought to do is to make them feel we are concerned and that we care. drug-seeking patients (as u describe them) need not only pain...

7. moisture issues

   mahjia replied to ferrchr's topic in Safety

   way back when i was a student, i saw a medical stud cleaning the pressure area with a so-called ZONROX, a chemical used to remove stains from cloths. they only explain it quite, that it contain some mineral (never had the chance to figure it out) tha...

8. Are 12 hour shifts safe?

   mahjia replied to psychnurse1998's topic in Safety

   your point is well taken but for me, i prefferred 12hr shift. i know my bodys capacity and it says i can take the tasks to work for 12hrs non-stop. it too give me more time for my family coz i only work 3days a week instead of 5days.

9. Am I to incompetent for nursing?

   mahjia replied to Yenta7's topic in New Nurse

   u are just doin fine.... be brave....see everybody do understand what u are undergoin... (esp me...i am a newbie too :spon:)

10. Share Your Funniest Patient Stories...

    mahjia replied to Trvln Nurse's topic in Humor

    its 12 noon the other day. im with my senior staff to give our meds. our last patient to entertain on is an old lady w/a dx of HPN and cardio problem. her meds are amlodipine and citicholine. i always explain every procedures and the drugs, of what t...

11. rules of injections

    mahjia replied to imahobbit's topic in General Nursing

    wow i like your guts...hope i have it too... we are taught in school to do whats in the book..and to follow the universal rule in giving medication but lets face the reality...our own CI's bend the rule.. some of our CI's allows us to give or inject ...

12. decubiti redux...

    mahjia replied to NurseFirst's topic in Safety

    its so happened that last week i got that as my case study. and i wanna correct something, its not the bed that really treat or prevent the patient from such disease. rather its the q2h log rolling. it is believed to be the cornerstone for prevention...