blondy2061h MSN, RN

What I find interesting is not a single IV bag to be seen for boys that were dehydrated, malnourished; and probably needing antibiotics.

We never formally adapted it but I always did it in my patients because I would go hog wild curosing anything luer lock connected to my patient. It can't hurt?

Posts like this spread the idea that not getting a break is the accepted norm. The more we normalize it the more we accept it when it isn't acceptable.

I'm beginning to think we're being played. OP has only 4 topics since 2014, all about horrible working conditions. Despite this thread having 55 replies they haven't replied since July 1.

A discharge med they're unlikely to need tonight doesn't seem like something I would call the on call for.

We have a very similar system at my job and a very similar proposal was made where working your holiday would consist of the night before and of. The problem came with night shifters who had been there 10+ years and spent the last 10 years getting sh...

I guess that's more my personal experience. The state I'm in medical marijuana is only available in tincture, vape, or capsules. Things like buds and edibles are banned.

I think most people I work with do this. Everyone could probably eventually pass but no one wants to waste time moving around and trying different sized and putting their hair up and such so everyone just instantly says "Yes! Can't taste a thing!"

I'm curious if you thought the wording was too open on this, how do you feel about the increasing number of states with recreational marijuana? As for imparied nurses, I think that needs to be determined by behavior. There are nurses that use chronic...

You don't get 36 hours of PTO, then, you get 36 hours of sick time. Some of the "complainers" are stating their PTO allowance and that includes any time off for the year. No extra 4 weeks of vacation. I agree 36 hours of sick time is harsh, but 4 wee...

They do it that way so it's fair to the employees who are working a full schedule that week but aren't on the actual holiday where they would get time and a half. 25 days of PTO seems pretty generous, especially if those are 12 hour days so that's li...

I remember an exercise in a middle school class I took. The teacher was trying to teach us about technical writing and how detailed it needs to be. He brought in items to make peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and asked us to take turns telling him ...

Our Mars say how long to push it over and sometimes I ever loosely obey it

I have excruciating neck pain and after years of Botox, nerve blocks, tramadol, and being offered nsaids I'm allergic too, I've had moments where I have thought suicide might be my only option. Thankfully, I've got a decent pain management doctor now...

You know how when people are sick or exercising or it's a hot day they say they need to "push fluids." They mean they need to take in a lot of fluids so they don't become dehydrated or because they're already dehydrated. They don't mean they're liter...

If he has type 2 diabetes it could absolutely be a somogyi effect. Insulin is present and the exercise acted as a catalyst to increase insulin sensitivity. Then, a quick drop in blood sugar and resultant spike from a glycogen dump.

Nonononononononono This was not your fault. Don't act like it is

We have to have a 95% scan rate but we're allowed 5% wiggle room for technical difficulty and emergencies. That's really a crazy thing to be suspended for. I'd be looking for another job. It sounds like they might be out for you.

We do hoyer weights. Bed weights are severely frowned upon where I work. Even zeroed there's a lot of variance.

Are you seriously monitoring CHF with daily bed weights?

I thought that was gloves and 2x2 wrappers (with or without the 2x2 still in it)

I've worked OT as an RN in the aid role before. I just took care of patients the same as always minus assessments and med passes and watched the clock tick thinking I was the highest paid aid in the building. When a patient asked me for paid meds or ...

Alaris is pretty much a monopoly. Does anyone here use a newish pump that's not Alaris in the us?

Do they rotate who they mess with or is it always you? That's insane. I've never heard of that bad of a situation

Your test experience reads to me like an experience someone with no nursing school experience at all would have trying to demonstrate those skills flying by the seat of their pants. Did you go to class? Study? Practice these skills? At all before t...