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Well all of those questions you just asked so did we. The medication is administered by a radiologist. The order is ordered by an oncology physician . The sketchy part is the activation there is no guidance by our nursing board that deals with activating an order. We have come to the conclusion that we do a nurses note stating by activating this order the RN does not in anyway agreed to the plan of care for this patient. That's kind of the best we can do. We have asked for a second oncology RN to agree that this order can be simply activated by any RN but resistance has deleted this process.

We are a hospital that engages in out patient chemo Lumbar punctures. We have been given the task of "activating" chemo orders. Our direction is to meet the patient and performa series of assessments [not the issue] . what is the issue is that there is an order placed by the oncology doctor, there is no evidence it has been double checked by an oncology RN and we are activating the order to give this to the patient. Can anyone advise of a procedure you may be using that can help ours? Some RN's worry this is out of scope or they are being for the lack of a better word "used" as the double check when they are not oncology rns.

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I wish i could get paid to do these studies. Maybe ill marry a doctor one day that will allow me to do this.

He is a doctorate of pharmacy by spending enuff boring time in a classroom. And i agree he must also have taken "crap on people 101" he should have had the smarts to avoid causing a bad situation for everyone. People get so butthurt over status. Signed normal joe

i doubt you will be there by then and it is a lot of time ahead

you should move - seriously your a nurse???

if it were just a ct i would doubt there was an RN there -they would have been called to it - sometimes crap just happens

I think we dont know enough here to judge. What kind of proceedure was it did it involve conscious sedation. Was it indeed a bleed?? Ir Rns (most) are either experienced icu or ed nurses so they usually know what to do with a fail on a patient. If it indeed was the Ir nurse uktimatley responsible that will come out if any inquiries. All this talk of Rns throwing each other under a bus is what makes this proffession week at time. Be more proffessional and don't dictate blame til you know.

Smaller size oncology hospital here we have 2 staff [usually only one per day though] MD's and a PA we do on average about 10 a day then the add on inpatients varies. We staff 3 nurses and a lead . Days get busy often

good point riley

Funny SG Those damn rad techs i hear you 100% but our overall supv was an RN and many of them got the turf - we all gotta geet along

amyla is the correct was to go if your an RN , get into as many icu's as possible the bridge from ICU on the ground to ICU [and thats what it is] in the air is key. Your not an ER RN up there you are the pts life support if you havent dont it regularly on the ground god help them in the sky where you act as RN/RT/DR sure you may have a sat phone to your medical director, im sure he sits there just waiting for the call LOL, its hard to talk when your intubating,running drugs,holding pressure and about to start compressions :). Good flight companies look for well trained icu RN's who may have some trauma experience but ask any ICU RN if they ever see trauma and i think they would say yes.

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i also like the icu book but the washington icu book is the best read. You didnt say how old you were or your preferred learning? are they providing good orientation?? I was 42 and hired as a new grad ICU RN i had 6 months or "grad" trainng then an additional 6 months of ICU training, i had excellent co workers [some icu RN's are hard to work with] I actually attended the course by Laura ???? she wrote the ICU CCRN review book and is excent to listen to [very funny and informative] ask around someone may have her CD's. Also go to as many CEU courses as you can, to be a good ICU RN you have to submerge yourself in the culture, ask lots of questions then after a while things will come natural, dont be afraid to ask when you arent sure.