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    Pharmacists giving injections!?!

    VICEDRN replied to chevyv's topic in Patient Medications

    It isn't the best method but I thought it would nicely illustrate the point. Posters here are mistaking a PhD in pharm with training in area specific skills like assessment. The training is fairly...
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    Are you doing this at work?

    VICEDRN replied to vivasmom's topic in Emergency

    giving nebs: yup. rt will complain if you call them for something that small drawing own labs: yup. unless you want to wait for phleb which takes until never or so starting your own iv's: task is...
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    Help! My preceptor is very difficult to deal with

    VICEDRN replied to Scarlettanager's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Forget it: You are a senior in nursing school. You are paying for this learning oppurtunity. As gently as you can, confront her about her behavior if it bothers you this much. If she can't stop, go...
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    If I see one more post titled....

    VICEDRN replied to PinkRocksLikeMe's topic in General Nursing

    I rotate my sanitas with my MBTs every other day. M-F is for losers. hated it!
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    Pharmacists giving injections!?!

    VICEDRN replied to chevyv's topic in Patient Medications

    bob and weave there a little more! I never said I would be upset if MDs are trying to protect their right to prescribe though you seem to want to link one argument with the other. Laws that allow...
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    Pharmacists giving injections!?!

    VICEDRN replied to chevyv's topic in Patient Medications

    Operative words: "in NJ." I have seen nurses on here posting that you have to be a nurse to push meds in NY. I have seen other nurses say a nursing student can't push meds in your state. Well, this...
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    Pharmacists giving injections!?!

    VICEDRN replied to chevyv's topic in Patient Medications

    Oh! the hospital has a policy: in an emergency, anyone can and should adminster code drugs to the patient and of course, we are short staffed... of course, a code narrative rarely has everyone...
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    Pharmacists giving injections!?!

    VICEDRN replied to chevyv's topic in Patient Medications

    I don't know if you noticed but several people have already mentioned that pharmacies used to hire nurses to administer flu vaccinations which provided extra holiday income and opportunities to new...
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    Pharmacists giving injections!?!

    VICEDRN replied to chevyv's topic in Patient Medications

    The question I have for you and others who aren't worried is what if your facility is next? What if your patient load is increased and they take skills that you enjoy doing? This stuff happens in a...
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    Pharmacists giving injections!?!

    VICEDRN replied to chevyv's topic in Patient Medications

    We have in fact been reading the same thread. My point is that today the pharmacist is giving injections, tomorrow they will be doing your job at the hospital for you just like they do at my...
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    NHS3 recruiting "next generation" of Nurses' Health Study

    VICEDRN replied to ccoleman's topic in General Nursing

    I am a registered participant in NHS III and am proud of
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    Be a nurse or not?! HELP ME PLEASE!

    VICEDRN replied to ENT RN's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    Please do something else besides nursing. I am not trying to be mean but unless nursing is something you want to do with your whole entire being, you will feel like you made a mistake. Nursing school...
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    Pharmacists giving injections!?!

    VICEDRN replied to chevyv's topic in Patient Medications

    hey folks- I am with the original poster on this one. My ER has a pharmacist in our satelite at almost all times. I have watched as the pharmacists have slowly increased their nursing practice....
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    Want to do trauma - should I pick ED or ICU?

    VICEDRN replied to Irock's topic in Nursing Career

    I would go with ICU. I work in a Level I trauma ER. In the ER, you will spend the overwhelming majority of the time taking care of non-trauma cases. When you get trauma patients, they will likely be...
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    Does this make me an "RN snob"?

    VICEDRN replied to BuckyBadgerRN's topic in General Nursing

    In my state, LPNs can only push medications when an RN is on premises to supervise (ha ha) and can not push certain medications and blood products at all. You need to report the dentist and the LPNs...
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    Standards of Care in the ER

    VICEDRN replied to FancypantsRN's topic in Emergency

    q4 hours on hall patients and patients waiting in triage. q 4 hours on all patients in monitored beds (say a syncope or seizure) and q2 hours for all critical care/trauma patients. personally, i think...
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    All Those NPs with No Bedside Experience

    VICEDRN replied to Ruby Vee's topic in General Nursing

    Agree with an earlier poster that PAs are generally better trained than NPs in this neck of the woods and in the ERs I have been in. My first job let PAs do a lot of skills until they started adding...
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    All Those NPs with No Bedside Experience

    VICEDRN replied to Ruby Vee's topic in General Nursing

    I think maybe if the situation you described happened the way you described it, you might have been just a little sensitive. It sounds like she offered her opinion on the matter and you disagree....
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    Is nursing really for me?

    VICEDRN replied to <3 RN <3's topic in General Nursing

    You're kinda short on experience, partner, to really call it not for you. (6 months or less if we exclude your preceptorship on some high acuity floors!) IMHO, the first year is like your first year...
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    All Those NPs with No Bedside Experience

    VICEDRN replied to Ruby Vee's topic in General Nursing

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    All Those NPs with No Bedside Experience

    VICEDRN replied to Ruby Vee's topic in General Nursing

    For people who are actually vomiting? It seems to work nicely for people who feel nausea/ morning sickness and those drama queens that spit into the bags and call it vomiting but on people who really...
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    All Those NPs with No Bedside Experience

    VICEDRN replied to Ruby Vee's topic in General Nursing

    Should correct my typo before I get crucified: they're, not
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    All Those NPs with No Bedside Experience

    VICEDRN replied to Ruby Vee's topic in General Nursing

    I was speaking about generalities. Personally, I think Zofran is a wasted trip to the pyxis for someone who is vomiting but I don't share that with every md that ever orders it. As for specific...
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    All Those NPs with No Bedside Experience

    VICEDRN replied to Ruby Vee's topic in General Nursing

    I work in a hospital as an RN every week, 3 shifts a week. People routinely write their own orders at both of my jobs. In fact, some of the MDs even expect most orders to be written for them and then...
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    I was a new RN in 1989! There were no jobs!

    VICEDRN replied to madwife2002's topic in General Nursing

    interesting! thanks for