xmsanta

xmsanta has 6 years experience.

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1. New nurse, not eating so I can pass 20-30 patients' meds

   xmsanta replied to crudRN2020's topic in General Nursing

   Maybe a nurse but hired as a medication aide or scheduled as a medication aide that

2. New nurse, not eating so I can pass 20-30 patients' meds

   xmsanta replied to crudRN2020's topic in General Nursing

   I had a similar experience when working in LTC for a few months. I was new too. Luckily the nurse manager allowed me to shadow different senior nurses a few more shifts. You will start to see how many...

3. Reading the note wrong and thought MD note was an order

   xmsanta posted a topic in Patient Medications

   So the story goes like this. I am a new nurse for about 8 mths now. The patient was having febrile neutropenia with 2-3 episodes of a spike of temp at night for the past 2 weeks, no sign of infection,...