I remember to this day, first day as a nurse, putting orders in
Order said " CBC cdiff"
I put an order for CBC and one for stool for CDT x2
That same thing happens again later on the day, 3 other people with "CBC cdiff"
So I went on to ask a nurse, ( I thought, damn, what is up with all this cdiff??? My patients don't even have diarrhea!) so I asked the nurse if we screened for cdiff, and she looked at me like I was from mars:eek: so I told her, look at this orders....
... Then I learned about the differential:yeah: never seen that in school!
Not from Johns' Hopkins, but has decent references, and gets to the point.
The docs I worked with didn't want APAP given unless a temp hit 101.0F, for the reason of being useful in killing bacteria that have a specific temp where they're nuked.
Ok look the spelling / wrighting is not going to get better so let all just get all the teasing over and done with because I for one am tired of it .
Maybe a quick disclaimer at the bottom of your post so no one says anything? Just a gentle suggestion because I didn't know either.
I had a supervisor who was a nurse for over a decade, then out of nursing for 5 years to raise her kids. Her first job back was at my place. With great confusion she says to me while reading a new resident's meds, "What's E Casa? (Casa like "house" in spanish.) I say, "Huh?" and look at the list.
ok. it looked like you agreed with the poster who didn't know that fevers fight bacteria and viruses in the body :)
oh ok. i agreed with the nurse who was quoted "fevers kill the bacteria in a sick person's body" that's why i said she would be correct. i edited that post to be more clear.
oh ok. i agreed with the nurse who was quoted "fevers kill the bacteria in a sick person's body" that's why i said she would be correct. i edited that post to be more clear.
oh....:) i read it as that she was told to not give tylenol for a fever because fevers kill bacteria, and then a "huh"?- like she disagreed with that- maybe i misunderstood that
i remember to this day, first day as a nurse, putting orders in
order said " cbc cdiff"
i put an order for cbc and one for stool for cdt x2
that same thing happens again later on the day, 3 other people with "cbc cdiff"
so i went on to ask a nurse, ( i thought, damn, what is up with all this cdiff??? my patients don't even have diarrhea!) so i asked the nurse if we screened for cdiff, and she looked at me like i was from mars:eek: so i told her, look at this orders....
... then i learned about the differential:yeah: never seen that in school!
so what made you feel like a ?
sorry for going off on a tangent on my previous posts.
here is mine: when i was a new nurse, the doctor gave me a telephone order for a lab tibc. i asked the doctor to repeat the order please. the doctor said tibc. i asked her to spell it for me and she did sarcastically and basically called me a moron. i'm sorry but i don't know all these abbreviations especially when i don't see them ordered all the time. that was 3 years ago and never had another md order tibc again.
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shanelieB
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Well, there are also instances that doctors made such thing too.