rehabhereIcome

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1. Pain management in LTC

   rehabhereIcome replied to bluegeegoo2's topic in Geriatric

   LAST HOURS questions.... When a patient is in there last hours and prn doses of Morphine/dilaudid etc are ordered....and the patient no longer able to verbalize the need for BT pain control...how do you decide to give pain meds? I have based it on f...

2. Trach Patient

   rehabhereIcome replied to megananne7's topic in General Nursing

   No rt available at this institution it was an established trache that had no cannula Like I said this pt was not in distress and if he was I would have sent him out. I will speak to the nurse educator tomorrow I have worked with trached pts a lot ...

3. Trach Patient

   rehabhereIcome replied to megananne7's topic in General Nursing

   I had a trache pt last night. Established 2 years and no cannula. I have allways worked with the tubed type. Anyhow this patients sats were 81 to 83 on RA. I attempted a suction and his secretions were bright red he had been digging at it with his...

4. Bed Baths, I dread giving them.

   rehabhereIcome replied to GardenDove's topic in General Nursing

   OK so I was surprised to find this thread when I typed it in the search bar..and then to see pages and pages about it too! I have been a nurse a decade plus but not hospital until recent. Bed baths are not an issue for me in terms of how to do them.....

5. Morphine in TB Syringe, etc

   rehabhereIcome posted a topic in General Nursing

   I am seeing nurses give morphine with a TB syringe. Is there a reason for doing this?? Even though that is a sc needle I would have thought to draw it up in a regular 1ml syringe with a half inch needle? Is this just a nursing preference?? Are they t...

6. codes

   rehabhereIcome replied to rehabhereIcome's topic in General Nursing

   Thanks

7. codes

   rehabhereIcome posted a topic in General Nursing

   When CPR is taught we kneel on the floor and compress from the side but with a pt in bed do we stand at side or get up on the bed? Dumb I know. But I am serious! Never did a code nor have seen one in action

8. correct?

   rehabhereIcome posted a topic in Medications

   Percodan/Percocet tablets may be crushed Tylenol #2 and #3 tablets may be crushed Dialudid/Hydromorphone tablets may be crushed Morphine Sulfate"STATEX" tablet may be crushed Oxy-IR tablet may be crushed Ativan tablet may be crushed Diazepam tablet ...

9. What meds to crush and what not to crush?

   rehabhereIcome posted a topic in General Nursing

   Besides your time release and enterics what absolutely cannot be crushed? Does anyone know of a list? If not, please write down some no no crushers...Also some of the enterics I can't tell if they are enteric or not? tips on being able to tell tha...

10. diabetes info help

    rehabhereIcome replied to rehabhereIcome's topic in General Nursing

    actually am needing the CDN version. Its good is it? I'll have to take a trip to the book store then. Thanks

11. diabetes info help

    rehabhereIcome posted a topic in General Nursing

    Seriously contemplating diabetes for dummies book! auugghh Why am I so overwhelmed by Diabetes that I am feeling like a dummy? Perhaps because it has been years since taking care of diabetic patients! Thats why. Can someone please point me in the r...

12. bolusing a trach with ns but not suctioning afterwards

    rehabhereIcome replied to Happiness08's topic in General Nursing

    FYI and not exactly related. I have a many many years ventilated trached CT and he hates hates hates when nurses automatically put NS down his trache prior to suctioning. Ask your patient first what he typically does. He also finds it burns and fee...

13. Silly question about what is considered a liquid

    rehabhereIcome replied to queenjean's topic in General Nursing

    Great silly question!! Helped me!

14. Post-Mortem care

    rehabhereIcome replied to rehabhereIcome's topic in General Nursing

    Eeekkks!

15. Post-Mortem care

    rehabhereIcome posted a topic in General Nursing

    http://rn.modernmedicine.com/rnweb/article/articleDetail.jsp?id=375514&pageID=1&sk=&date= After reading this...does anyone have any other post mortem tips to share.