jlangrn

Wow, do I know where you are coming from....have one doc at our hospital who you can pretty much count on not getting there in time to deliver although he has been notified in plenty of time only to take his time getting there or coming in and telling us they have lots of timeand are not ready yet...and walks down the hall and we deliver the baby....and he wants to know what happened....duh....I know of several times he has come in and had to "catch" the baby barehanded....everyone on out unit has had the same thing happen....and I have had many new moms and dads tell us "You nurses did a wonderful job and we appreciate you so much".......

We can go to 42 mu but if hyperstim, we back off. Just recently our doctors started cutting back and not being so aggressive with pit, with increases of only 1 mu instead of 2mu or 6 mu increases. we mix 20 mu/1000 LR.

I guess I was blessed with pretty good clinical rotations while in nursing school. I did actively search out any opportunity to do any new procedures and let the nurses know I wanted any procedures I could get. It helped that in the hospitals where we did our rotations, were a lot of past graduates from our nursing school and they were always great to give us every opportunity. I have worked with a few new nurses or soon to be nursing students and try to give them the opportunity to watch or do any procedures they can. Even with the absolute BEST clinical experiences as a new nurse we all feel like we don't know enough.

Hey Rosey, You're like all of the rest of us, if you're a nurse you either have or will make a med error, we are just human. I agree this will make you a better nurse and it won't happen again, I'm sure. I also take the MAR to the room with me and take the meds in the unit doses and open them and put a small check mark by them as I give them and tell the pt what they are. As many have said the pts do know their meds better than anyone and will question anything different and we all learn to listen and double check whenever they question. I still get nervous when passing meds and I still check and double check after the 5 yrs I've been nursing. You'll do great, hang in there, and God bless, Judy