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    The last thing you want to hear when you get to work

    talaxandra replied to Tait's topic in General Nursing

    "Talaxandra's off sick." Oh, no, wait - that's what my colleagues hate to
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    Stupid things said by your non-nurse significant other

    talaxandra replied to Moogie's topic in Nursing Humor

    And even if they want to sleep, there I am, waking them up for obs and meds and pressure care and new IV lines and great, another MET call or
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    Diagnosed with MS

    talaxandra replied to NAZIZ's topic in General Students

    Hi NAZIZ - I missed your thread on the first go around. I just wanted to say thank you for posting an update - it's always nice to know how people are going. And I'm so pleased to read how well you're...
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    Help, I am very conflicted about turning peer into nursing board

    talaxandra replied to auntie72's topic in General Nursing

    He doesn't sound angry to me; he sounds dangerously incompetent. Falsifying medication records isn't something that's best dealt with through encouragement and concern - it's a potentially life...
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    Help, I am very conflicted about turning peer into nursing board

    talaxandra replied to auntie72's topic in General Nursing

    PS You're far from the only offender, but: it's etc, short for et cetera, not ect. Thank
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    Help, I am very conflicted about turning peer into nursing board

    talaxandra replied to auntie72's topic in General Nursing

    I totally get why the OP's conflicted, and I'm also concerned about the patients this nurse is looking after. However, as a couple of people have said, registration review by BONs is generally long...
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    Using Ampules w/o filter needles

    talaxandra replied to ilovenursing2009's topic in General Nursing

    Maybe you didn't click on some of the links previously posted. It does seem as though there are two camps and little concensus. In the "glass shards cause morbidity" camp there's this from 2006...
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    COPD patient wanting to leave to smoke

    talaxandra replied to chris10lsuRN's topic in General Nursing

    Also, we've moved way, way away from the OP's reason for starting this
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    COPD patient wanting to leave to smoke

    talaxandra replied to chris10lsuRN's topic in General Nursing

    I have no doubt the pharmaceutical industry has an agenda, but countering that's the not-exactly-neutral tobacco
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    COPD patient wanting to leave to smoke

    talaxandra replied to chris10lsuRN's topic in General Nursing

    Smoking does have some health benefits - a reduced incidence in ulcerative colitis, lowered incidence of Parkinson's Disease, some protection against endometrial and thyroid cancers, decreased...
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    antique peds nursing text

    talaxandra replied to Clovery's topic in General Students

    I used to love going through my mother's training texts from the 1950's, particularly the photos of contagious diseases - thank heaven for vaccinations! Reading your example, and some of the WTH?...
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    PDN...Facebook friend??

    talaxandra replied to Ms_Bee's topic in Private Duty

    I've twice had friend requests from patients, once in person and once online from a patient who'd gone to rehab, was a nurse at another hospital, and was friends with one of my colleagues prior to...
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    Which do you prefer?

    talaxandra replied to Purple93's topic in General Nursing

    Outside ICU my hospital runs an 8/8/10 roster: 0700-1530, 1300-32130 and 2100-0730. The day time double staffing time is used for ward meetings, education and care
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    The last thing you want to hear when you get to work

    talaxandra replied to Tait's topic in General Nursing

    I hear you, K+MgSO4 - that's why there'll be industrial action come November.
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    Being injured by patients

    talaxandra replied to SugarBabe99's topic in General Students

    I've been working in acute care for over twenty years - I've had my fair share of aggressive patients, from the demented and neurologically altered to medication interactions and psychiatric...
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    Things you'd LOVE to be able to tell patients, and get away with it.

    talaxandra replied to AngelfireRN's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Drives me nuts, too. I'm right
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    Things you'd LOVE to be able to tell patients, and get away with it.

    talaxandra replied to AngelfireRN's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    That's one thing I love about our buzzers - once pressed they only work again after being reset at the wall. In the bad old days of the previous sytem it was a ward-wide buzz 24/7 but now we've got...
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    The last thing you want to hear when you get to work

    talaxandra replied to Tait's topic in General Nursing

    Thanks for that. And, um, hell to the no! And there I was thinking the short shifts, split shifts and broken shifts the government are threatening to bring in were bad Here's another thing I love to...
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    The last thing you want to hear when you get to work

    talaxandra replied to Tait's topic in General Nursing

    I've seen this a couple of times now - what does it
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    How to handle particularly pushy/picky/questioning family members

    talaxandra replied to RNLaborNurse4U's topic in Ob/Gyn

    I love working in the public system and in a country that's yet to hear of Press-Gainey. "Discharge decisions are made based on a combination of medical and social consideration. In this case there's...
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    Potassium question...

    talaxandra replied to Soflo_RN's topic in General Nursing

    Too low for physcial therapy? What's he been smoking? I think your priorities were spot on - far from an emergency, though a little supplemental K+ and a recheck are certainly in order. And good...
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    Any legal issue there?

    talaxandra replied to akasu's topic in General Nursing

    I'm glad I didn't check with you guys when my neighbour asked if I could give her monthly B12 injection because her GP was away and the locum charged $80. She provided the ampoule, needle and syringe,...
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    Brushing my teeth at work giving me mouth sores

    talaxandra replied to Jamthenurse's topic in General Nursing

    Overbrushing doesn't just increase your risk of gum and oral mucosa irritation, you can also brush off the enamel - trust me, not only am I a dentist's daughter but my mother managed to do that and...
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    What does Nursing mean to you?

    talaxandra replied to FutureRNontario's topic in General Nursing

    Well, I can't do better than ebear, so
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    DKA and Potassium

    talaxandra replied to apocatastasis's topic in Emergency

    Many of our DKA's are on hourly litres of N/saline, so their K+ dilutes down, as well as the intracellular insulin-driven shift. Until the BSL is under 15mmol/L (270mg/DL) we replace K+ at a rate of...