Bocephus71RN-BSN

Bocephus71RN-BSN BSN, RN

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...

  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

  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...

  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...

  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

  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...

  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

  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....

  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...

  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...

  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...

  12. vitamin b12 injection

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

    the deltoid is more than sufficient. Hope this

  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

  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...

  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...

  16. I really messed up on my first nursing job!

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

    Hate to say it but health care can be very "catty" . Many nurses have been black balled. My best advice is to NOT even put them down as an employer. Start fresh as a new grad some where else....

  17. To renew an LPN license or not, once an RN?

    Bocephus71RN-BSN replied to S.N. Visit's topic in General Nursing

    if you get your license revoked as an RN you can not then practice on an unexpired LPN license. Let the LPN go you are now an RN no need to pay for something you do not need.

  18. Atarax IV?

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

    have given vistaril or atarax with demerol IM to help the effects of the demerol. Never heard of it IV personally, I thought it was never given IV could be

  19. Husband uncomfortable with my job!

    Bocephus71RN-BSN replied to DA314's topic in General Nursing

    reassure him that you will save the sexually bed baths for him and that you will need to practice on him alot. And in clinical settings you have latex gloves get in wipe a few place and your done,...

  20. Use of IV push antihypertensives on the med surg unit

    Bocephus71RN-BSN replied to will robinson's topic in General Nursing

    as said before when pushing metoprolol one nurse should push the med and one nurse should be watching the telemetry monitor for lengthening PR interval causing a AV block and of course HR. Labetolol...

  21. First travel assignment in hazard ky

    Bocephus71RN-BSN replied to auntsas82's topic in Travel

    My dad lives in Pikeville, and says they are rough in that area and not open minded to new ideas or changes or

  22. Should a patient with pancreatitis drink regular soda?

    Bocephus71RN-BSN replied to Smokey9283's topic in General Nursing

    NPO diet advance as tolerated I always start out with ice chips for awhile

  23. Am I to old?

    Bocephus71RN-BSN replied to Patrick57's topic in General Nursing

    I would suggest if you liked the EMT you would want to do some sort of acute nursing care in which case I would get my RN not

  24. I was slapped by a doctor!

    Bocephus71RN-BSN replied to cluelessRN81's topic in General Nursing

    This guy will have a lawyer and they will want to settle this one up $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ maybe not the correct path for sum but if it were a little slap for alot of...

  25. I was slapped by a doctor!

    Bocephus71RN-BSN replied to cluelessRN81's topic in General Nursing

    fair enough i didn't know, perhaps i shouldn't have spoken. I always thought battery was when you done