Passing Meds without the REDS

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New nurse here. I have gotten my first nursing job, and was wondering what advice you guys can give on how to give meds, check glucose, and give insulin without going red.

I am the only nurse, and right now I have 12 patients. We have and hour before, and an hour after before we go red, bu prep can be little overwhelming.

Thanks,

Marie

Specializes in Critical care.

Sometimes $h!t happens, literally. I go red with 5 patients sometimes depending on what meds I have to give and how needy the patients are.

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Hi Been there. OUr pts picstures turn red when their meds are late. I hate being red and I would like to find a way to work smarter, not harder so I will have more time to chart.

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Specializes in ICU.
I see your detest of Cerner and raise you one utter disgust of that waste of technological stupidity.

I honestly think Cerner was originally created by a disgruntled former patient who hated his nurses so badly that he wanted them to suffer.

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Yes that is what it means. I work in a LTC facility.

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Specializes in Medsurg/ICU, Mental Health, Home Health.

There are programs worse than Cerner. Really.

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Yes that is what it means. I work in a LTC facility.

12 patients in LTC would be a dream assignment.

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Specializes in ER/Tele, Med-Surg, Faculty, Urgent Care.
A paradox that "cocaine and amphetamines" are illegal substances.. .

Caffeine is legal luckily

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Specializes in LTC.
I honestly think Cerner was originally created by a disgruntled former patient who hated his nurses so badly that he wanted them to suffer.

Cerner is sent from the depths of hell to destroy my sanity on a daily basis. It's just so bloated and worthless.

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Specializes in LTC.
There are programs worse than Cerner. Really.

*shudders*

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Specializes in LTC.
Yes that is what it means. I work in a LTC facility.

You are going to be in the red. My Per Diem job is LTC, and I go red (Matrix Care is our EHR) constantly. I do my best to organize my 30+ pt pass so that medications that are truly time dependent get given on time, and my bg's are done on time. I do my best. I'm only one person, I can only move so fast without making errors (I tried to be faster, but one Med error killed that). I'm hardly experienced yet by any means, but even the nurses who've been in LTC forever go red at my facility.

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We have Matrix care too

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Specializes in ICU.
There are programs worse than Cerner. Really.

That's hard to imagine, at least the way my PRN job has it set up. I have used Meditech, McKesson, Cerner, and Epic, and Cerner is the worst by far. I have honestly recommended people away from that hospital system if they mention looking for a job because of having to use Cerner.

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