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hypocaffeinemia BSN, RN

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  1. Death bed visions

    hypocaffeinemia replied to legend0710's topic in General Nursing

    Precisely,

  2. PICC Line

    hypocaffeinemia replied to VAJenny's topic in Infusion, Intravenous

    Just tell 'em that ALL medications are compatible once mixed and diluted into blood plasma

  3. Do you consider this harrassment

    hypocaffeinemia replied to perc71's topic in General Nursing

    It's not harassment, however it may or may not violate labor regulations. That's ultimately beside the point, however. You need to think about whether or not you wish to work somewhere were your...

  4. Pharmacology and math

    hypocaffeinemia replied to OnlyByHisGrace's topic in First Year After Licensure

    My pharm class had dosage calculations on every test. The math is simple, especially if you've taken chemistry and understand dimensional analysis. If that is a foreign term to you, that's what I'd...

  5. PICC Line

    hypocaffeinemia replied to VAJenny's topic in Infusion, Intravenous

    Wow, this thread is deja vu to me. Somebody asked a nearly identical question a week or two ago:...

  6. multiple pain meds at once?

    hypocaffeinemia replied to sweetieann's topic in General Nursing

    NSAIDS impair coagulation in a similar, though lesser, manner as

  7. Physicians Assistant Doesn't know what FEMA is?

    hypocaffeinemia replied to KarynicaRN's topic in General Nursing

    This is scary that a PA doesn't know what a FEMA is. I would hope that ALL medical professionals could be able to locate and describe the longest bone in the body. /tongue firmly in

  8. Does your hospital allow you to say "Merry Christmas"??

    hypocaffeinemia replied to VU RN BSN's topic in General Nursing

    Back to my previous post, whether or not "Merry Christmas" is offensive or not depends solely on the subtext attached to its use. For me, Christmas has as little to do with Christianity as Thursday...

  9. Does your hospital allow you to say "Merry Christmas"??

    hypocaffeinemia replied to VU RN BSN's topic in General Nursing

    A) If your company forces you to say something, stupid as it may be, your rights are not being restricted. This stretches the definition of what constitutes a right. B) I find it unlikely that the...

  10. Does your hospital allow you to say "Merry Christmas"??

    hypocaffeinemia replied to VU RN BSN's topic in General Nursing

    Christmas is December 25th. Unless you're talking about that specific day, it's hardly semantics. If I had more time at hand I'd count just how many holidays fall from Thanksgiving to New Year's....

  11. Does your hospital allow you to say "Merry Christmas"??

    hypocaffeinemia replied to VU RN BSN's topic in General Nursing

    It's not about offending people. As a nonreligious person, it doesn't bother me in the slightest...unless it's being used in the context of a veiled threat by someone addicted to Fox news and...

  12. Ten Reasons Why American Health Care Is so Bad

    hypocaffeinemia replied to HM2VikingRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    What an illuminating and groundbreaking opinion. I say, let's disband the FDA, all the state boards of medicine, nursing, and pharmacy, JCAHO, medicare, medicaid, and all other government management...

  13. When does my license need to be renewed??

    hypocaffeinemia replied to daisy87's topic in Texas Nursing

    If you go to the BON website and look up your license it will say when the renew date

  14. Does your hospital allow you to say "Merry Christmas"??

    hypocaffeinemia replied to VU RN BSN's topic in General Nursing

    I'm of two minds regarding this issue. The first part of me thinks that Christmas is no more religious than Thursday. You see the Keep Christ in Christmas stickers on cars, right? I want one that...

  15. Do patient's have the right to smoke even if family doesn't want them to?

    hypocaffeinemia replied to chuchie's topic in General Nursing

    The MS one is hardly over the top. The claim made is that we escort patients to smoke in order to ensure their safety. I just followed this claim to its logical conclusion. A person with MS may be...

  16. Question about a question on dosage calculation test

    hypocaffeinemia replied to sunchild's topic in General Students

    you had the dose ordered and the dose on hand backwards. if the doc ordered 1gr/200, if you divide 60 by 200 to convert to milligrams, you see he ordered 0.3 mg. if the dose on hand is 30 mg, you're...

  17. Question about a question on dosage calculation test

    hypocaffeinemia replied to sunchild's topic in General Students

    Grain is part of the outdated and soon to be (if not already) banned by JCAHO apothecary system. One grain is equal to anywhere from 60-65 mg depending on your source. Now you see why it's being...

  18. Do patient's have the right to smoke even if family doesn't want them to?

    hypocaffeinemia replied to chuchie's topic in General Nursing

    what if you have an ms patient? will you hold the cigarette for him? after all, safety first, right? there's lines that need to be drawn here. the one between patient safety and personal safety, the...

  19. Do patient's have the right to smoke even if family doesn't want them to?

    hypocaffeinemia replied to chuchie's topic in General Nursing

    unless one takes a fire extinguisher along when one escorts, nay enables their patients' poor health habits you really can't make too big of an argument for

  20. Socialized Medicine sure is scary.....

    hypocaffeinemia replied to HM2VikingRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Indeed, the same people who state that we shouldn't socialize healthcare likely support socialized fire/ems/police and the largest chunk of our government: socialized

  21. Patient with high tissue oxygenation but low lung function

    hypocaffeinemia replied to Texan123's topic in General Nursing

    The last two statements paint a picture of someone with poor perfusion. The SpO2 number isn't everything-- the clinical picture is entirely different and matches his lack of lung function. If this...

  22. Socialized Medicine sure is scary.....

    hypocaffeinemia replied to HM2VikingRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    As to which system is best, no system is without its flaws. However, before you look upon solutions, you need to decide what the question is. Specifically, is healthcare-- including non-emergent,...

  23. Socialized Medicine sure is scary.....

    hypocaffeinemia replied to HM2VikingRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    This isn't foreign to our system, either. Our C/S rate is multiple times higher than what evidence-based guidelines say it should

  24. Do patient's have the right to smoke even if family doesn't want them to?

    hypocaffeinemia replied to chuchie's topic in General Nursing

    The patient has the right to smoke under the principle of autonomy. The patient doesn't have the right to expect LTC to enable their right,

  25. IV Valium and precipitates...

    hypocaffeinemia replied to WSU_Ally_RN's topic in Patient Medications

    I've seen in used instead of ativan for seizure control in our ER, however I don't recall ever seeing IV valium up in our ICU. Our seizure protocols allow for ativan 1 mg as frequent as necessary to...