PANurseRN1

PANurseRN1

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  1. Why are nurses such back-stabbers?

    PANurseRN1 replied to RNforLongTime's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Wow. I hope that if you graduate your attitude toward your future co-workers will have

  2. Promethazine IV Question

    PANurseRN1 replied to PMercier's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    I'm not wild about the idea of adding it to the primary bag and just letting the fluids run open. Way too many variables. I don't think it will be long before giving Phenergan IV is contraindicated...

  3. Is current thinking on pain control creating drug addicts?

    PANurseRN1 replied to GardenDove's topic in General Nursing

    I suppose your doctor would rather you develop an ulcer from NSAID overuse. Sorry you have such an uncaring

  4. PA Board refuses to answer skills question

    PANurseRN1 replied to jimthorp's topic in Pennsylvania Nursing

    oh yeah. repeat after me: the pasbon is not your friend. they won't answer your questions, but as sure as gun's iron, they will go after your license like jaws goes for chum if you wind up messing up....

  5. Is current thinking on pain control creating drug addicts?

    PANurseRN1 replied to GardenDove's topic in General Nursing

    At seven + jobs in two years, that would mean someone would be at a facility an average of no longer than four months at a time. Not a lot of time to really have an accurate grasp of how a hospital...

  6. New grad - hanging blood

    PANurseRN1 replied to jennykaye's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I have always transfused based on the parameter set by the doc, e.g. "2 units PRBC, each unit over 3h." You set your rate based on the volume to be infused over the time to be infused. I've never...

  7. Is current thinking on pain control creating drug addicts?

    PANurseRN1 replied to GardenDove's topic in General Nursing

    Using placebos without the pt. consent is unethical, if not illegal. Research it before you form an opinion; there is a lot of information out there about using placebos. Should we go back to the bad...

  8. They Think I'm Working Christmas??

    PANurseRN1 replied to jodyangel's topic in General Nursing

    What the OP is being asked to do is not only ridiculous but dangerous as well. I simply cannot believe the response from one poster (tmdmb?); thanks, but we don't need people like you in the...

  9. Christmas Gift for your unit from docs

    PANurseRN1 replied to fetch33's topic in General Nursing

    Do it. Do it. I would soooo love it if you actually had the nerve

  10. Adoption option?

    PANurseRN1 replied to lannisz's topic in Ob/Gyn

    I agree with Deb. "Shaming" people often leads them to desperate (and sometimes bad)

  11. New grad - hanging blood

    PANurseRN1 replied to jennykaye's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Why??? I have always hung a primary line of NSS, then piggybacked the blood to the lowest Y site on the primary tubing. Absolutely always on a pump except when I'm in the ED and we're running open...

  12. I should have said something...

    PANurseRN1 replied to Jesskanurse's topic in General Nursing

    Exactly. I'm not sure what the OP wanted by posting this, since posts that disagree with her POV are deemed offensive. If you post a question asking for opinions, you're going to get a variety of...

  13. New grad - hanging blood

    PANurseRN1 replied to jennykaye's topic in First Year After Licensure

    We just set the pump for whatever the rate is ordered. You're doing vs so frequently in the beginning that you'll most likely be right there if the pt has a reaction. Of course, you need to follow...

  14. I should have said something...

    PANurseRN1 replied to Jesskanurse's topic in General Nursing

    I think you are going to have a difficult (at best) time trying to explain why you waited two weeks to speak up. You have to follow your conscience, but be prepared for some hard questions if you say...

  15. CNA Membership, would you put it on your resume?

    PANurseRN1 replied to Sherwood's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Nice new angle for another anti-union

  16. Why do nurses eat their young?

    PANurseRN1 replied to frizzle's topic in General Nursing

    Seriously. I for one am sick to death of new nurses demonizing experienced

  17. Is there power in the color white?

    PANurseRN1 replied to bbfw2's topic in General Nursing

    Someone needs to take your shovel away before you dig yourself an even bigger hole. Please, please, educate yourself on the history of nursing. You need

  18. Is there power in the color white?

    PANurseRN1 replied to bbfw2's topic in General Nursing

    That is comparing apples to oranges. Their work was just as difficult respective to that time. Really, will you appreciate it when future nurses say you "did

  19. Is there power in the color white?

    PANurseRN1 replied to bbfw2's topic in General Nursing

    What a completely obnoxious thing to say. Were it not for the expertise of those older nurses, you would have had no one to teach your instructors, who in turn, wouldn't have been there to teach you....

  20. Becoming an NP with little to no nursing experience??

    PANurseRN1 replied to Blurr156's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    I noticed that, too, and that is definitely not the only related word. I believe the misspelling is very intentional, it's just that no one has called him on it

  21. Becoming an NP with little to no nursing experience??

    PANurseRN1 replied to Blurr156's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    FYI: I recognize three posters here from SDN. Something to

  22. Becoming an NP with little to no nursing experience??

    PANurseRN1 replied to Blurr156's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    Also bear in mind that you will be held to the standard of care of an advanced nurse practitioner. A med-mal atty. or a BON isn't going to care if you went straight through a direct-entry program and...

  23. diagnosis

    PANurseRN1 replied to student06-07's topic in General Nursing

    Since the pt's interaction with her family seem to exacerbate her agitation, it would not be appropriate to have them visit. While we may personally feel that a terminally ill pt should have family...

  24. How to maintain/preserve an IV site?

    PANurseRN1 replied to veegeern's topic in General Nursing

    What kind of abx.? Depending on what the pt was getting, maybe a peripheral line was not the best choice. Perhaps a PICC would have been better. I have never heard of flushing with 50ml

  25. diagnosis

    PANurseRN1 replied to student06-07's topic in General Nursing

    The pt is delusional and paranoid because she has brain mets. Behavioral measures aren't really going to help, particularly since she's end stage. Interventions should be approached with that in mind,...