benthereseenit

Volume,volume, volume. In any situation where there is a sudden decrease in b/p your first line of action is usually going to be increase the volume going in. as to the 2nd question regarding the color of the urine you were diluting the volume he already had and also flushing out (hopefully) any etoh of board.

I am new to this board so I hope i don't offend anyone. However, after reading these posts of pet peeves something is obvious to me. I have been a LTC charge nurse (RN), M/S nurse (as LPN), ICU nurse, CVICU nurse, ER nurse, Nursing supervisor in large hospital and even a million years ago was a nursing student. So i think i have a pretty good presceptive on the nursing field issues of nurse vs nursing student vs cna and after reading these pet peeves i have a new pet peeve----nursing students and cnas thinking that somehow their job is the exact same as ours as the rn. Please let me finish before the yelling starts. When you are the cna or the nursing student you work very hard, esp. cna. Being a cna is hard physical labor with little pay and even less respect. Being a cna for two months was one of the big motivators for me to go to nursing school in the first place. however, when you are the cna or the student no matter how mad or frustrated you get with the pt or the family or the rn you can always simply tell the rn or the team leader that you are not responsible for the pt. See that is the difference, being the rn you are where the buck stops as far as caring for that pt when the doctor is not there. You as the rn have to be the one who ultimately says okay if no one else will do it (even if it is part of theri job) i'll do it because that is MY PATIENT. To all the nursing students i hope when you get out of school you truly learn to understand and take that responsibility seriously. Sorry i didn't mean to go on a rant but the common theme in this thread has become how nursing students and cna are doing all the work and the rn are just sitting around. i work now in very busy er with no lpns or cnas and no nursing students on the night shift and yes i work sometimes with the lazy nurse, and the pms nurse, and the disappearing nurse but i am responsible for my patients and i leave every morning knowing that i took that seriously. so once again sorry for the rant but enough is enough. and yes i do have a sense of humor and yes somethimes we all stand around and complain about the pts, the docs, and each other but at the end of the day most of us (i mean rns) take it seriously.

Never climb a chain link fence in a miniskirt while wearing no underwear, especially if you are underage, drunk and your parents on a cruise and you end having to go to surgery from the er.