AggieNurse99 BSN, RN

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 sticks. Also, aseptic technique for accessing medipo...

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 gravity) primary set. ISMP has a lot on the subject http:/...

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 went.

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 needs to start taking up this cause, to stop forcing peo...

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

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

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

Hello from the other side....

I think I'm allergic to that.

Got it in 1 stick!

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

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

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 requirements of my state. Bathroom door open, no fl...

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 stridor!!! Epi-pen then straight to the ER next d...

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 vein.

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 straightforward.

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 directions not to have graphs, though, to write out stats.

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 your license or liability if something had gone w...

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 later.

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 thread got downright painful at times. Art Appreciatio...

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 thoracentesis; accidental chest tube removal; air emb...

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 gotten a straight answer, but is it do-not-operat...

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 will go and check on my other 4-5 patients. I love...

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 synthroid.

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 bedside echo with contrast of some sort. This pt had a ...