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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...

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 ...

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...

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.....

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...

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

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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 ...

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...

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...

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

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...

Great silly question!! Helped me!

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.

Eeekkks!

I am very confused by this thread. I did not vote the way the Vast did. I see the vast majority say it is in the Abdomen. When my son came home from hospital after a heart procedure at 3 days old..he was on enoxaparin for 3 months for a clot he dev...

Do you attach the stat lock to the picc line first or secure the sticker down first and then clip it onto the picc line with the clips? I am guessing attach the clips and then pull off the sticky tabs to secure the lock to the skin.it is so tricky wi...

Thanks for your tips ... My question was actually also in part because of that unwanted pistoning effect... I figured if you clipped it first you could then place the sticker down without pulling on the line ...if you set the sticker too far from th...

We were taught by a Dr to change entire trache unit uncuffed.

OK...so I am about to start a new position which I am quite excited about. IT is a full time float in a rehab hospital. I will be expected to go between 2 floors(4 units)...all similar but at the same time different. When I tell my fellow current ...

I was trying to locate a thread for random med facts...I enjoy the other random fact throwing but I was curious if there was one listed under some other name here on allnurses just for medications. thanx

Unavoidable yes...but please list some tips to best avoid and deal with.......................

HA...like your name...I guess you were the "one" I wanted to talk to!! :) What you said was what I expected...hmmm...guess will see if they eat me alive...if I don't post for awhile I guess they did!!! thanx

Is NS from an IV bag considered the same as NS for irrigation? Can it be used to flush/irrigate a wound? I have seen it done as such and was curious. Also..if this practice is acceptable...at what point should that IV bag of NS solution no longer be...

OK...thanks