AggieNurse99

AggieNurse99 BSN, RN

Infusion, Med/Surg/Tele, Outpatient

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  1. Positions With Most IV Start Experience

    AggieNurse99 replied to BeckyRN's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Pre-op or pre-GI lab. If ultimately you want to go to outpatient or home infusion, dehydrated patients needing access outside of the AC are good building blocks to becoming very good with difficult...

  2. How do you dilute IV push phenergan?

    AggieNurse99 replied to eastsider's topic in General Nursing

    I don’t like to give IVP phenergan in a peripheral IV - you must treat it like any other dangerous vesicant - and our policy on IVP vesicants has us using the side port of a free flowing (ie...

  3. COVID-19, If a nurse needs quarantined...

    AggieNurse99 replied to Trampledunderfoot's topic in Disaster Preparation

    If the NDAs weren’t in effect, you could ask the nurses who worked during the Ebola crisis at the hospital in Dallas how well it

  4. Forced Organ Donations from Living Donors???!!!!

    AggieNurse99 replied to traumaRUs's topic in Nursing News

    This should bring the worst global sanctions against any country that operates this way, IF and only IF, proven. Not saying the authors research wasn’t done or is incorrect. The global populace...

  5. BONUS: Nurses Week Meme Contest

    AggieNurse99 replied to allnurses's topic in General Nursing

    When your coworker refuses your help with the confused, 90 lb. little old

  6. Patients Say the Darnedest Things

    AggieNurse99 replied to allnurses's topic in General Nursing

    "I don't feel very good. I missed my dialysis." CMP came back = K+ was 11

  7. Choose Your Favorite TV Nurse

    AggieNurse99 replied to allnurses's topic in General Nursing

    Jesse "Mama" from Code Black... when you're in trouble, your mama's got your

  8. Caption Contest

    AggieNurse99 replied to allnurses's topic in General Nursing

    Hello from the other

  9. Fill In The Blank...

    AggieNurse99 replied to allnurses's topic in General Nursing

    I think I'm allergic to

  10. Create Your Own Meme

    AggieNurse99 replied to allnurses's topic in General Nursing

    Got it in 1

  11. Favorite Motivational Quote

    AggieNurse99 replied to allnurses's topic in General Nursing

    You get the assignments that only you can handle. - a wise charge

  12. Doctors Say the Darnedest Things

    AggieNurse99 replied to allnurses's topic in General Nursing

    "Make him a DNR but do not tell him," the worst order I ever had given to me! Yes, the doc ended up without

  13. Weed and work.

    AggieNurse99 replied to LDAthleteNurse's topic in General Nursing

    So I worked as a bus driver while in college. We had true random drug testing. Once a month, a computer program would spit out 50 or so names from 500 employees and we'd have to go pee in a cup. CDL...

  14. You are NOT allergic to...

    AggieNurse99 replied to BuckyBadgerRN's topic in General Nursing

    My mom's friend is really and truly allergic to brewing coffee. Can drink coffee, cannot be in vicinity when being brewed. I Took those 2 ladies through the Starbucks drive-thru and she started having...

  15. BARD Powerglide..

    AggieNurse99 replied to HMarie13's topic in Infusion, Intravenous

    Our team stopped placing in areas of loose skin. We use Bards new dressing, securis, with very good results. Also never steeper than a 1.5 cm

  16. Get ahead in nursing courses?

    AggieNurse99 replied to HeyNurseLB's topic in University of Texas Arlington

    DONT take nursing research at this time. At all costs. Take that class when you have 5 weeks with nothing scheduled on Fri-Sat. Health Assessment is pretty

  17. vulnerable population 2/24/2014

    AggieNurse99 replied to ladyD123's topic in University of Texas Arlington

    In it with y'all. So far it seems just like any other UTA RN-BSN AP class...just follow directions. Yes, I bought the text, and have found it useful. I think it was specifically stated in the...

  18. Unjustly fired for requesting proper staffing?

    AggieNurse99 replied to zyft01's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    Safe Harbor would not have protected your job. But if you had filed it, you would have whistleblower protection from retaliation if it was made in good faith. Safe Harbor would not have even protected...

  19. Really, UTA?

    AggieNurse99 replied to MBrickle's topic in University of Texas Arlington

    Um, I had to get a recruiter at a corporate event to smooth the process...then it went fast, like enrolling in classes 2 days

  20. Who else starts 4/8/13? Prof Nursing A/B, Technical writing

    AggieNurse99 replied to NclexSally's topic in University of Texas Arlington

    You can add me to the list. Did some Pre-Req's missing from my first 2 degrees, and hoping the nursing classes are much more cohesive. I had high school students in some and creating a discussion...

  21. Just another day right? NOT!

    AggieNurse99 posted a topic in Medical-Surgical

    So our usually calm, quiet, and sedate M/S unit is a good place to work. Only real issues tend to be over-narcotic or drug reaction or a fall. Today: Afib RVR/Febrile pre-op/new onset AMS; bedside...

  22. Full Code DNR DNI DNO

    AggieNurse99 posted a topic in Patient Safety Issues

    I feel really silly but about 6 months ago we changed our charting and now have to select code status for pts. I've asked and asked and asked collegues, MDs, and education but what is a DNO? Not quite...

  23. Rapid Response - primary RN

    AggieNurse99 replied to LouisVRN's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    Part of the problem is sometimes that RRT'd pt is draining too many resources on the unit - i.e. me, my tech, my charge, my mgr, staff bystanders and if that is the case after the initial 10-15 min I...

  24. NPO for surgery

    AggieNurse99 posted a topic in Patient Medications

    Do you give routinely scheduled PO medications? I know we have to give beta blockers, so I usually give all as I would if the pt was PO. A new grad took offense when I questioned her about holding...

  25. Lasix IVP IV rate vs PICC rate

    AggieNurse99 replied to mrmedical's topic in Patient Medications

    Unless specific reason exist for a fast push, i.e. adenocard, you should always go over at least 2 min, regardless of the line. My first day in nursing clinicals, for whatever reason, a pt had a...