Bocephus71RN-BSN BSN, RN

Bocephus71RN-BSN has 15 years experience as a BSN, RN and specializes in med-surg, telemetry,geriatrics.

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1. Protocol for Heparin gtt, primary or secondary?

   Bocephus71RN-BSN replied to med/oncRN's topic in General Nursing

   should be as a primary always for safety. if the bag goes dry it will alarm. Like tweety said. I once followed a nurse who ran in an entire bag of Lepirudin which should have lasted 24 hours in less than an hour it is given to people sometimes th...

2. CPR Question: Rescue Breaths

   Bocephus71RN-BSN replied to curlilockz's topic in General Nursing

   PS: Unless they had a really gross mouth, they id have to say sorry your getting compressions and thats it, should have kept better oral hygeine.:chuckle

3. CPR Question: Rescue Breaths

   Bocephus71RN-BSN replied to curlilockz's topic in General Nursing

   the new addition of the hands off addendum is nice. They found that CPR certified people were not starting CPR cause they did not want to do mouth to mouth with out a barrier for communicable disease possiblities even when it is only a small risk. ...

4. Difficulty Orienting with Younger Nurse?

   Bocephus71RN-BSN replied to Sailingshoes's topic in General Nursing

   I went back to get my bachelor's many years after being out of school. It so happened to be a time when I never used computers. Things had went from DOS run programs and apple computers to windows and the WWW/ So when I went back to school I had...

5. Lab Results: WOW

   Bocephus71RN-BSN replied to JenTheRN's topic in Ob/Gyn

   Not in OB but isn't that part of HELLP syndrome. I would think that would be suspect in this case.

6. They are trying to force the DTaP vaccine on me.

   Bocephus71RN-BSN replied to Jo Dirt's topic in General Nursing

   All I have to say is I had to have a prostate exam(if your not familiar its when the doctor says "bend over you are gonna feel a weird sensation at the tip of your *****":eek: when I went through the roof:argue:!!!!!!!!! I was 24 for goodness sakes:a...

7. Dealing with excessively dry hands.

   Bocephus71RN-BSN replied to THAT Nurse.'s topic in General Nursing

   natural UNREFINED shea butter from Africa. Check Ebay. Works like nothing I have tried including Eucerin.

8. St. Louis ICU

   Bocephus71RN-BSN replied to circusgirl's topic in General Nursing

   Barnes Jewish is a magnet hospital, tertiary care center, work with Washington University Doc's rated amongst the highest in the nation, and Barnes is I believe the 8th top ranked hospital in the USA. The medicine floors stink but the ICU's are bett...

9. Is this o.k.?

   Bocephus71RN-BSN replied to JessLPN001's topic in General Nursing

   and frankly it wouldn't surprise me if some weekend nurse on days started wanting off that have their nose up the DON's posterior side and they thought ah here is a way for us to manipulate this new nurse to get what we want. SEEN it happen with al...

10. Is this o.k.?

    Bocephus71RN-BSN replied to JessLPN001's topic in General Nursing

    How about this is a fairly new nurse with a lot of responsibility. How about ooops she forgot. lets remind her to be more diligent. But a write up over these things in LTC,,,,excuse my frankness,,,,BUT PLEASE. Alot of LTC is the same so I'd look ...

11. Am I too sensitive - new charge

    Bocephus71RN-BSN replied to cherokeesummer's topic in General Nursing

    My wife went through this for 8 years. Doing for everyone, managers, nurses, cna's, administration, admitting, ER, all departments, and had to take a full team of 8-10 patients and had to make all the calls to docotors for 56 beds then put in order...

12. vitamin b12 injection

    Bocephus71RN-BSN replied to sweetieann's topic in General Nursing

    the deltoid is more than sufficient. Hope this helped

13. asked to resign

    Bocephus71RN-BSN replied to pedspnp's topic in General Nursing

    Hey they missed out having an advance practice nurse who would probably do 3/4 of their work load...lol...Dont get mad get a better job

14. MRSA question

    Bocephus71RN-BSN replied to Epona's topic in General Nursing

    Most hospital have or will institute more stringent screening for this because medicare added more to their "never do" list which they no longer reimburse for hospital acquired infections. The hospitals will eat the cost for treatment. Now how man...

15. First seizure, feelings of incompetence

    Bocephus71RN-BSN replied to Tessa88PN's topic in General Nursing

    Have you ever seen a grand mal seizure? If you have ,,,enough said..lol....I protect them from injury,,,I time the seizure...when they are post ictal...move them safely to a room with low lights check V/S check neuro checks, apply oxygen,,and notify...