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  1. Help w/Hypoxia - patient sent home....

    Kansas_RN posted a topic in Medical-Surgical

    Help me out here. I posted this in General Forums without any response. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ I have a question for all of you. I had a patient last week. She had TAH...

  2. Discharge Order Help

    Kansas_RN replied to joamy2's topic in General Nursing

    It is a policy where I am from too. But in a small hospital with doctors that have been there 25 years, or Ortho staff with "g*d complexes" good luck. Management says to the floor nurses, "page them...

  3. Discharge Order Help

    Kansas_RN replied to joamy2's topic in General Nursing

    If the doctor writes continue home meds..that is what I write on the discharge instructions. How many times have you seen that the patient's home list is different than the H&P, and they are both...

  4. Post Total Thyroidectomy care. Was I right in doing this?

    Kansas_RN replied to raindrop's topic in General Nursing

    Okay....my questions is what else was going on with the patient. I mean I had my thyroid out and the next day I was sent home. Up in my room the same day as surgery. Was there an imobilizer on?...

  5. Did Anyone Go To Nursing School While Raising Kids?

    Kansas_RN replied to selulion's topic in General Nursing

    --I posted this another place, but had about the same answer as I would give you. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ My kids were 1, 2, and 4 1/2 when I...

  6. Need some advice

    Kansas_RN replied to shena25's topic in General Nursing

    My kids were 1, 2, and 4 1/2 when I went back to school. They are now 8,9 and 12. They hardly remember anything about me being in school, and now my hubby and I can afford to do some fun things with...

  7. Hypoxia - patient sent home....

    Kansas_RN posted a topic in General Nursing

    I have a question for all of you. I had a patient last week. She had TAH with vertical abdominal incision. She did very well, but had one problem. Hypoxia. I personally don't like hypoxia in my...

  8. Admitting Diagnosis

    Kansas_RN replied to mir4777's topic in Nursing Humor

    Our unit clerk is a super anal retentive person. Sometimes we rearrage her rows of pens (black, red and highlighters when she leaves her desk, just to see how long it takes her to see it....or mix her...

  9. Potassium piggybacks

    Kansas_RN replied to starcandy's topic in General Nursing

    Usually we hang a 250cc bag of NS with 40mEq of KCL with 100mg of lidocaine. Works like a charm most of the time. Our standard order for _____mEq KCL ryder IVPB over 3-4

  10. Ethical delima????calling in or giving meds to drug seekers???

    Kansas_RN posted a topic in General Nursing

    i work part time in a family practice office. i work for all providers at one time or another. we have a doc (lets call hime smith) that is famous for giving pain meds. he'll switch them from lortab,...

  11. Do male nurses get less abuse than females by nursing supervisors and patients ?

    Kansas_RN replied to Lanceman's topic in General Nursing

    let me start by saying...(doesn't sound like a short post does it???)....that i have been a med/surg nurse for 3 1/2yrs. i am still green around the edges by some standards and experienced by others....

  12. Nurses wearing white

    Kansas_RN replied to rnmaven's topic in General Nursing

    When I started the nurses wore white or Caribien Blue, the cna's another, respiratory therapists another and so on. I was a pt at that hospital when I had two of my babies and for 2 minor surgerys....

  13. Ethical delima????calling in or giving meds to drug seekers???

    Kansas_RN replied to Kansas_RN's topic in General Nursing

    Your right about addicts in for surgery. I found out from an experience on our med floor. Pt was constantly complaining of pain and finding it hard to get pain meds. She was a chronic abuser to the...

  14. Nurses wearing white

    Kansas_RN replied to rnmaven's topic in General Nursing

    Okay don't hate me...but no I did not grow up wearing those "horrible caps". I put that in quotes because that is what I have heard them called time after time by nurses who wore them before they had...

  15. salaries of an office nurse

    Kansas_RN replied to peds rn's topic in General Nursing

    wow!!!! where was that and what kind of office. H*ll, I don't make that on the

  16. salaries of an office nurse

    Kansas_RN replied to peds rn's topic in General Nursing

    I work at a family practice office part time and make $14.00 an hour. Not great, but less stress than our med-surg floor (my full time job) and the perks are not office

  17. PDA's for nurses... Anyone use them?

    Kansas_RN replied to MereSanity's topic in General Nursing

    Oh,,,,I need prayers. I have already posted how much I love my pda.....now I have lost it. I got iced in at work this week and between crashing at the hospital overnight and trying to cope with...

  18. PDA's for nurses... Anyone use them?

    Kansas_RN replied to MereSanity's topic in General Nursing

    I love mine!! I have a Clie TG25. It may not be top of the line, but I can't live without it! I have drug guide (use every day I work) and Taber dictionary (everyday) along with labs, 5min consult,...

  19. gossip and back bitting

    Kansas_RN replied to lighthouseRN's topic in General Nursing

    It definately only takes a few to spoil the rest. In our hospital if we pass on anything to the night shift they bit** like we just told them they have to work overtime without pay. Yesterday I gave...

  20. Funny things you have said but wish you didn't

    Kansas_RN replied to FranEMTnurse's topic in Nursing Humor

    i work part time at a family practice office when i'm not working 12 hr shifts on our med/surg floor. well last month i put my foot in my mouth. after talking to a pt about the daily wts he was...

  21. Taking Call

    Kansas_RN posted a topic in Patient Safety Issues

    I hope I am posting this right. My question is do any of you out there have to take call. Basically if we are overstaffed (yes I said overstaffed) and/or don't have enough patients on the floor...