intellica

intellica has 28 years experience and specializes in pediatric community.

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1. Need Your Opinion About Medical Emergency

   intellica replied to intellica's topic in General Nursing

   To Kohai2, BSN, thank you so much for your guidance and support! We need more nurses on this planet like you!

2. Need Your Opinion About Medical Emergency

   intellica replied to intellica's topic in General Nursing

   Reply to lvntrail, LPN The EMS was not there yet. If I am present, it is my obligation to run the code because where I am from, law 90 dictates that the LPN's cannot evaluate. One must have the capacity to evaluate to run a code. I was the onl...

3. Need Your Opinion About Medical Emergency

   intellica replied to intellica's topic in General Nursing

   Nurse Beth, thank you for this comment, as I was attempting to distinuish our different roles. I would like to add that I was not just upset because she countermanded me. After the code, in an informal debriefing, she confronted me for running the co...

4. Need Your Opinion About Medical Emergency

   intellica replied to intellica's topic in General Nursing

   1)Nope, I tried, the child was on the floor, the teacher was hovering over his face. I circled the child but still could not see his face. He was cyanotic when I arrived. 2) Although the postical phase cannot be suppressed (confusion, headache,...

5. Need Your Opinion About Medical Emergency

   intellica replied to intellica's topic in General Nursing

   I apologize for the tone with regards to LPN's. This post was originally written for a non medical community and hence the explanation. The LPN and I had a very good working relationship which was why I was hurt. When I asked the bystander...

6. Need Your Opinion About Medical Emergency

   intellica posted a topic in General Nursing

   I am a nurse clinician, and have been a nurse for 26 years. I have worked at my current place of employment for over 17 years and currently hold the position of head nurse. It is in a community setting with a pediatric clientele. Recently we had a me...