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I think you should maybe see abou shadowing a peds nurse. If your current hospital doesn't have a shadowing program ask around. Also maybe do some soul searching about exactly what is burning you out (I see you did that a bit) and try to think/find o...

The lovenox to me isn't the bigger problem it's a different pathway with a different purpose. (typically anyway I get that that wasn't the case here) The bigger problem is the idea of starting with 10mg of coumarin for three days, that just bizarre. ...

I think it's really digesting that you won a lawsuit over refusing to work. So much for helping the sick I guess. I have to wonder if the earlier poster is right and this is a troll thread. You can't really think that not being able to make your own ...

That's quite reasonable. If a patient comes after six I settle them attend to immediate needs and then if I can get more done I do if I can't I don't worry about it.

What were the other four questions.

How about the time I looked up a (male) patients medication only to find out it was a breast cancer medication. No history of breasts or cancer of any kind. Written by a resident three days earlier. Question it and a prompt order was written to d/c. ...

You just say "I'm planning to write myself in, you should to, I'll give you a great cabinet position." :-)

5-10$/ hour is 10-20 thousand more per year so yeah it'd be worth it.

I have most frequently found this to be anxiety in my patients, I have yet to have one go bad or code after saying that. However doing vitals signs and a quick reassessment helps to rule out any problems that might be detectable and to reassure the p...

I think the kids will see the cartoon not the color. I have to add my own story though. I've always heard red can agitate dementia patients but I never had a bad response to my all red scrub set, they actually often commented on it positively. But I ...

The power of prayer to convince people that they don't need treatment, hence their cancer gets worse?

We use an emar, so we can just leave a note that says given by so and so and it's marked in an I didn't give it way of that makes sense. When we had paper mars and this situation occurred we would write "given". Probably not for narc's either though ...

Then I guess I should quit if it's God alone I guess the patients don't need my care. No worries about checking the six rights and all that either God will just intervene if he wants them to live and if not it was his will, not my negligence.

There's is no excuse for that behavior. It really doesn't matter what you did, it's never appropriate to handle anything by screaming at somebody.

I think the point was that is wasn't someone who say had paranoid delusions that a non white person was coming to kill them. There was no clinical reason behind this that they were aware of.

As long as it wasn't a medication I can't see why you'd worry about it at all. I think the idea of being called up in a trial because you grabbed something for someone it way out there. It's not like someone is going to document "tissues grabbed by x...

I would tell her that she needs to be getting the patient up to the bathroom every hour that that's what he nee. If she only has one patient there is no excuse for not doing the things this patient needs. If she refuses as said above write her up rep...

Can't you still talk to the charge nurse of whomever was supposed to be caring for that patient? Didn't anyone check on her at all at four am?

Um, yeah that sure won't cause any problems. /sarcasm if they're not going to hire liscenced personell to do liscenced tasks why not just hire housekeepers and teach them to chart, that'll save even more money.

Wonder why she went to the hospital at all, better at home then in the back of a car.

I have to agree about the NCLEX. It is not difficult. More importantly though it really has no relevance to nursing school. It does not test nursing knowledge at all it test your ability to take tests. I guarantee my mother could pass it and she's ne...

If your job allows that you need to find a new job. All hospitals are not that way and if they have to find new staff because of it yours won't be either. Have you talked to management about it? Who have you talked to? I don't know you personally of ...

we had a patient do that the other day. The funny thing is the outgoing nurse reported it to me as "She forgot she was at the hopsital." Because at home she has a leg??

Any nurse who tells you they don't make med errors on occasion is a liar. That said having a plan to correct it is good. Any time you make a mistake you should brainstorm things to can do to prevent it happening again. You should always have more tha...

The patient has the right to leave the hospital and get water, just like te have the right to leave if they don't agree with anoter aspect of their care. It is not part of their rights to have water provided against physician orders. A fluid restrict...