RN1982

RN1982

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  1. Holding each other accountable..

    RN1982 replied to RN1982's topic in General Nursing

    You are right. We are suppose to get report at bedside. I slipped up and let her give me report at the front desk instead that night. I want to take her by the shoulders, shake her and say "you are...

  2. Dangerous nurses

    RN1982 replied to funmom's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    No it's not better to have hyperglycemia. There's more risk for infection and less wound healing if blood sugars are not properly controlled. Blood glucose should be maintained within the appropriate...

  3. First Job!!! Internship vrs regular hospital. Insight pls

    RN1982 replied to Spoiled627's topic in General Nursing

    Go for the

  4. Holding each other accountable..

    RN1982 replied to RN1982's topic in General Nursing

    When I talked to the patient's mother on the phone, I gave her the names of both of my managers and then in the morning, I pulled my manager aside and said "Hey, family has complaints about the day...

  5. Anesthesia and urine output....

    RN1982 replied to RN1982's topic in General Nursing

    You're right, it could have been from the anticholinergics. One patient's surgery was facial the other involved the patient's

  6. Anesthesia and urine output....

    RN1982 replied to RN1982's topic in General Nursing

    No they didn't have foley caths in OR. One patient was 90 years old so she is more

  7. Anesthesia and urine output....

    RN1982 replied to RN1982's topic in General Nursing

    When I read the OR reports, the patients weren't give a lot of fluid in OR. Both patients were voiding. They urinated about 50cc when they came back from OR. They both stated they were having trouble...

  8. Holding each other accountable..

    RN1982 replied to RN1982's topic in General Nursing

    Personally, the idea of holding each other accountable is a good one. But it's not as if this girl has never been confronted about her care. She has and has the same blank look and response every...

  9. Holding each other accountable..

    RN1982 replied to RN1982's topic in General Nursing

    You make a good point. Perhaps, it wouldn't happen so often if someone was being forward with her about

  10. Holding each other accountable..

    RN1982 replied to RN1982's topic in General Nursing

    My biggest fear is confrontation and I'm afraid that the way I will come off will be as being

  11. Holding each other accountable..

    RN1982 replied to RN1982's topic in General Nursing

    Unfortunately. Thats why I hate saying anything because I don't want it to look like I'm picking on her.There's some other stuff I haven't mentioned but I have had a family complain to me about her...

  12. Holding each other accountable..

    RN1982 replied to RN1982's topic in General Nursing

    Thank you for your replies. I do appreciate your

  13. Holding each other accountable..

    RN1982 replied to RN1982's topic in General Nursing

    delete.

  14. Sooo tired of patients complaining about foreign nurses' accents....

    RN1982 replied to nervousnurse's topic in General Nursing

    I don't know where you got all of your info from but can you please explain to me why there are three year waits to get into nursing programs in the U.S. if Americans "don't want to do" nursing. Do...

  15. Dangerous nurses

    RN1982 replied to funmom's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    ECK, I'm really sorry that happened to you. Some of the things I see at work astonish me. Trust me, if I walked in and my father's colostomy stoma was blue and had low to no urine output for four...

  16. Discrimination Against Men in Nursing

    RN1982 replied to Demonsthenes's topic in Men in Nursing

    I have male co-workers who were told in nursing school by nurse managers at their clinical sites that they were not welcome in nursing and they would never make it. I still think we need more men in...

  17. Dangerous nurses

    RN1982 replied to funmom's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Some patients are that brittle. I had a patient who was being covered for blood glucoses of 60-90 with 4 units of insulin. I thought that was

  18. Dangerous nurses

    RN1982 replied to funmom's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I wrote one up last week. We had a patient crashing and one of my patients had been given 40mEq of KCL IVPB for a potassium of 3.3. I asked the oncoming nurse to please recheck the electrolytes per...

  19. Worried about passing NCLEX after Kaplan due to low scores

    RN1982 replied to nclexparanoid's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    When I studied for the Nclex, I got the "incredibly easy NCLEX questions/answers". It came with a cd-rom which had tons of questions. I answered fifty questions each day up until I took my

  20. Dangerous nurses

    RN1982 replied to funmom's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Do you remember what insulin you were giving. I've seen sliding scales that start at 10 units of Regular insulin. It just depends the patient and the severity of their

  21. "End Stage" Untreatable Obesity

    RN1982 replied to medgirlRN's topic in General Nursing

    Regarding the RNY, it's still a popular procedure. The difference between that and the Lapband is that with the Lapband there is no rerouting of the intestine, just a band placed around the stomach...

  22. can these all be given together?

    RN1982 replied to sweetieann's topic in General Nursing

    I've seen them given at the same

  23. Can we really afford any more medical advances?

    RN1982 replied to FireStarterRN's topic in General Nursing

    What I would like to know is, why were they told that they were out of luck? Did they have some other co-morbitdities that made them not a good candidate for surgery? Were there other factors such as...

  24. Can we really afford any more medical advances?

    RN1982 replied to FireStarterRN's topic in General Nursing

    If people are going to make assumptions regarding socialized medicine in Australia or Canada or any European country for that matter, at least have facts to back it up. It may not be the greatest...

  25. Is Being Loyal Worth It?

    RN1982 replied to whodunit's topic in General Nursing

    I remember on my five year anniversary, I got a small pin from my employer. Couldn't they have just gave me a small raise instead of some stupid pin that I'm gonna throw in a