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  1. IV Vita K

    miko014 replied to chenoaspirit's topic in General Nursing

    I'm not any more leery of it than I am of anything else I give IV. As stated, vitamin K is not potassium. Yes, it can have bad side effects, but so can lots of other things. When we give it, we run...

  2. Is this Legal?

    miko014 replied to widi96's topic in General Nursing

    When we call in sick, we have to call the staffing office and the floor, so two calls (or one, but then you have to be transferred to the second person). I think there is some kind of policy that if...

  3. Is It OK for Nurses to Do These Things?

    miko014 replied to Plagueis's topic in General Nursing

    Okay, so what about the dementia pt with a sky high BP who won't take his meds? You just let him stroke out and die, and then tell his family, "well, he wouldn't take his pills." That's a lawsuit...

  4. The NEW Nurse (Not the ones AOL speak of)

    miko014 replied to walk6miles's topic in General Nursing

    Interesting. I would love to read that...I could use some of that Disney magic myself! Especially if it will make my patients behave and, you know, not

  5. Is It OK for Nurses to Do These Things?

    miko014 replied to Plagueis's topic in General Nursing

    It's not really a problem at a hospital, for the exact reason you said (just make sure to replace pt B's pill before she needs it!). In LTC, pt's sometimes have their own prescriptions - meaning...

  6. The NEW Nurse (Not the ones AOL speak of)

    miko014 replied to walk6miles's topic in General Nursing

    Hey walk6miles - what are you talking about when you say "Not the ones AOL speak of"? Sorry, I may be being stupid, but I'm not sure what you mean when you say

  7. The NEW Nurse (Not the ones AOL speak of)

    miko014 replied to walk6miles's topic in General Nursing

    I didn't say she couldn't vent. I mean, come on, if this weren't a place where we could do that, it wouldn't be in the subject dropdown menu, would it??? I have shared many a vent here as well. And...

  8. The NEW Nurse (Not the ones AOL speak of)

    miko014 replied to walk6miles's topic in General Nursing

    Wow, what a vent. I think you should have chosen your words a bit more carefully. You just offended a LOT of people, and started the whole "nurses eat their young" debate again. I'm on the "old...

  9. Is It OK for Nurses to Do These Things?

    miko014 replied to Plagueis's topic in General Nursing

    The hiding pills in food thing - if you have to crush someone's pills and put them in their food, you should be putting them in a little bit of applesauce, pudding etc. - like 2 bites worth. If pills...

  10. Learn To Say It Correctly!!

    miko014 replied to SheriLynnRN's topic in General Nursing

    I love this thread, but does anyone else think it's funny that we're in such a hurry to correct the grammar and/or spelling of others that we aren't taking the time to correct our own posts??? For a...

  11. How to set limits on inappropriate pt behaviors

    miko014 replied to RNcDreams's topic in General Nursing

    Ugh, GoldenLuvr THANK YOU for this: "I'm not going to try to explain why you lashed out by saying "oh, he was scared" or "I must've startled them"." I am SO sick of other people making excuses for...

  12. Called Off for Low Census!!!

    miko014 replied to BlearnRN's topic in General Nursing

    Don't worry, your census will pick back up soon enough! It's really not uncommon for the census to be low everywhere in the summer, especially around the 4th of July. I know it's hard now, and...

  13. Called Off for Low Census!!!

    miko014 replied to BlearnRN's topic in General Nursing

    We had about 2 months of very low census last year around this time. I didn't mind it, because I'm all for not going to work. But I have enough PTO saved up to cover that - unfortunately, if we use...

  14. has you hospital become an amusement park

    miko014 replied to MISTY BODINE's topic in General Nursing

    Yeah, they pretty much let patients and visitors do whatever they want until it gets REALLY bad, and even then, they don't do much. People walk all over us like we are made of Pergo, and management...

  15. Learn To Say It Correctly!!

    miko014 replied to SheriLynnRN's topic in General Nursing

    Okay, I just hit the jackpot!!! This ought to entertain us for awhile!

  16. Learn To Say It Correctly!!

    miko014 replied to SheriLynnRN's topic in General Nursing

    And in that post you said "mute point". It's moot, not mute! That's another one of mine,

  17. Onco/hematology nurses , AML end of life questions.

    miko014 replied to annmariern's topic in General Nursing

    First off, so sorry to hear about this. AML is awful. Here's a great resource for leukemia. Be sure to check out the "newly diagnosed" section. Hope this helps!!!...

  18. Learn To Say It Correctly!!

    miko014 replied to SheriLynnRN's topic in General Nursing

    Did you do that just to see if you could make me puke??

  19. Cats + Diabetes

    miko014 replied to Pepper The Cat's topic in General Nursing

    I had a diabetic cat before I was a nurse, and let me tell you, the insulin is a bad idea. I gave my baby insulin then went to work one day. She threw up, had seizures, went into a coma, went to...

  20. Learn To Say It Correctly!!

    miko014 replied to SheriLynnRN's topic in General Nursing

    Okay, I have to be juvenile for a second...when I started reading that I started laughing. "When you do it to someone else, you lay them. If it's past tense, you laid them." Okay, done! Sorry! Just...

  21. Learn To Say It Correctly!!

    miko014 replied to SheriLynnRN's topic in General Nursing

    Okay, pronunciation sometimes bothers me, and sometimes it doesn't. It's so funny that this thread started out about O2 stats, because I almost exploded the other night when 2 techs were talking about...

  22. I'm guilty!

    miko014 replied to FireStarterRN's topic in General Nursing

    I always send home any cream, eye drops, or inhalers the pt has if they are going to be using that med at home. It's just a waste if you don't. I have sent a pill or two home as well - like if the...

  23. When to NOT give insulin?

    miko014 replied to natrgrrl's topic in Diabetes, Endocrine Nursing

    Okay so I can't edit - here are links to a few charts. None of them is the same as mine, but they aren't bad. I wish I could find one with a graph of action times, but I can't! Also remember to...

  24. When to NOT give insulin?

    miko014 replied to natrgrrl's topic in Diabetes, Endocrine Nursing

    natgrrl, I found a paper copy of my chart, but I can't find one online. I tried to type it out but it didn't look right - let me keep

  25. Is there some sort of Nurse/Med student rivalry?

    miko014 replied to ThatPoshGirl's topic in General Nursing

    Yeah, nothing like jumping to conclusions from one stupid thing you read on the internet. I haven't seen the forum you're talking about, but who needs to? It's just one more place where people who...