veegeern

veegeern BSN, RN

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  1. IV Phenergan

    veegeern replied to ERERER's topic in Infusion, Intravenous

    Don't have any research for you. Sorry. Our hospital policy is to only give phenergan 25 mg or less IV push. It has to be mixed in 10 ml NS. The IV site is to be above the wrist, and it is to be...

  2. Describe your last day at work in 50 words or less !?

    veegeern replied to DutchgirlRN's topic in Medical-Surgical

    PCA'd 8 hrs on rehab floor. Most max assist with 2-4 persons. Half confused/dysphasic/aphasic (sp?). Exhausted. 4 hrs on my unit, had 5 pts and charged. Gastritis pt, NPO wants food. FNS didn't...

  3. Fearful of infiltrating IV's

    veegeern replied to cjblu's topic in First Year After Licensure

  4. Floating to diffrent units in your hospital

    veegeern replied to mugwump's topic in General Nursing

    I agree. It's quite a delima, but again, so far I have been able to work something

  5. Fearful of infiltrating IV's

    veegeern replied to cjblu's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I agree with all of the above...especially

  6. Floating to diffrent units in your hospital

    veegeern replied to mugwump's topic in General Nursing

    I agree with you about patient safety. However, our facility has a policy that anyone can be floated to any unit. When I get to another unit, I let the charge nurse know what I am comfortable...

  7. You are probably a med-surg nurse if.....

    veegeern replied to DutchgirlRN's topic in Medical-Surgical

    Ok, guys. Tell me the truth. You really work in my hospital and you've changed your names for protection! Speaking of changing your name, how many times have you wanted to change it 4 hours into...

  8. Appropriate Action?

    veegeern replied to mdmetz's topic in General Nursing

    I have to question whether or not those discharge orders actually made it to the patient. Our instructors never allowed anything in writing to go anywhere near a chart or a patient without their...

  9. Dilema-need advice. Is Dr. misdiagnosing patients for financial gain?

    veegeern replied to Stray Kitty's topic in Cardiac

    Stray Kitty, First, does your state offer protection for whistle-blowers? Second, if I had to, I could live without my license. However, I could not live without my conscience...How about

  10. Floating to diffrent units in your hospital

    veegeern replied to mugwump's topic in General Nursing

  11. Fearful of infiltrating IV's

    veegeern replied to cjblu's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I've been an RN for almost 2 years now, and for me the fear lessened with time. It didn't help that 2 nurses on my unit were called in for a depositon r/t an infiltration right after I was hired....

  12. Admission/Discharge nurse

    veegeern replied to pk1's topic in Medical-Surgical

    My unit has a clinical coordinator who acts as our charge nurse from 7a-3p. If we have at less than 13 patient's on the floor or if we are short staffed, then she has a team. If she does not have a...

  13. What was the MOST ridiculous thing a patient came to the ER for?

    veegeern replied to JUSTYSMOM's topic in Emergency

    Where I work, the first thing they ask for on the floor is food...pain??

  14. What was the MOST ridiculous thing a patient came to the ER for?

    veegeern replied to JUSTYSMOM's topic in Emergency

    Then I had the guy who was bitten by a water mocassin. He didn't want to kill the snake so he picked it up with a rake to try to move it to the woods. The snake is now totally p*ssed off and scared so...

  15. Anyone else frustrated with being a new nurse?

    veegeern replied to asilmk's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Nupsgrad, I too could have written your reply. I've been an RN since Feb 2004. I work on an internal medicine floor...chronic patients with cardiac problems (telemetry, new pacemakers, cardiac...

  16. 12 hour shifts

    veegeern replied to cshelly12's topic in General Nursing

    The majority of floor nurses in the hospital where I work are on "variable" shifts. For us this means that we work mostly 12 hour shifts with occassional 4 or 8 hours shifts...Our shifts times are...

  17. New CPR instruction?

    veegeern replied to OURN83's topic in General Nursing

    If you go to Google's news page, you'll find the link to the

  18. working on Christmas?

    veegeern replied to scrmblr's topic in General Nursing

    Sorry to hear that you're both working Christmas. On our unit, we have a sign up list for Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Years shifts. We sign up in order of seniority, and we ALL are required to...

  19. New Here And Need Some Advices

    veegeern replied to Frenchie73's topic in Georgia Nursing

    First let me say that your age isn't an issue as long as you are in good health and are committed. I started a PT program when I was 28. For reasons that I won't go into here, I didn't finish it. I...

  20. Georgia Wages

    veegeern replied to Sweetiepie1497's topic in Georgia Nursing

    Thomas County is south from where I live. Either way, it's rural and the wages are not going to be the same as in an urban area. However, I have found that the wages quoted in another thread of...