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I have to say it depends on the situation. I once had a patient who had pain meds ordered Q4 hours PRN for post-op pain. She would set an alarm to go off 3 hours after she got her medication and then you immediately start hitting the call button de...

I don't know what the laws are in your state. But in my state if you don't report something like this, then you could lose your license. The nice thing is you can file a report online anonymously and it will give you a case number. If you keep the ca...

I've been an RN for a dozen years now. And I have family member with the type of hearing loss you're talking about. I hate to say it, but if I was to lose my hearing to that degree that I would be looking for another career the next day. I'm getting ...

How would love to hear some of the things coworkers have done at work that just make you mad and frustrated. For example, the other day we had a lady who was clearly terrified of needles. Now we all have patience claim they're scared of needles. But ...

I've been thinking about this ever since I read this thread a couple of days ago. Today I remembered something. My very first semester of nursing school I had a teacher who told us something before our very first clinical. She said that any time we h...

I've been doing this long enough now that I think I actually know what happens. The fact is the only time anyone gets in trouble for calling themselves a nurse is it they are lying and actually working as a nurse without a license. It does happen. An...

Oh don't get me wrong, they get mailed if they use the title RN or LVN. The states mail's out a list to all nurses every quarter of people who are in trouble and being prosecuted for just that. What they let them get away with doing is saying quote "...

I begin my career with seven years in pediatrics. Then I transferred over to the ER at the ER directors request. Lo and behold we got a new er director shortly after that. A year and a half later I did what many of us do, I quit my boss and went to w...

1 milligram every 6 hours. I would never question it. In fact I'm wondering why so far between doses? Is it an elderly patient or do they have some disease that will keep them from metabolising the drug. Do they even stock vials of 1 milligram dilaud...

If they do it with one med, they will do it with others.

If you charge that the patient took the Med then you are saying in a legal document that you witnessed them taking the Med. Say you went to a patient left them at their bedtime bedside in for 3 days in a row they drop the pill on the floor and it rol...

In my state, Texas, you can call yourself a nurse if you work in a doctors office. You can do this with even wirhout getting a high school education much less any further training. It is an old old loophole the doctors used to use to get inexpensive ...

if you don't want to work nights, holidays and weekends, then basically you need to get out of nursing. You are going to need a lot of experiance before you get anywhere close to the hours you want. As for the money, if I quite working nights, weeken...

I have a co-worker that went the D Ramsey route big time. She went on a working rampage for 3 months and pain off $48K of her mortgage in three months. For the next 6 months her husband worked 2 jobs. They not only paid off their house-along with eve...

Well said.

If I ever have a fear about meds, I toss theright away and start over. Noone has ever faulted me for that.

My first time was one of the first nights I ever charged. It was a slow night on pedi-only 3 pts on the floor. One of them just did not look right and I had no idea why. Pt was in for RSV. Had both the house-super look at her and the RT. No one coul...

The triage nurses in my ED are supposed to always ask about travel. it has been part of our normal triage process for years. I personally always ask if they have traveled outside the US and if they have travel out of my state. You would be shocked th...

I had a pt call from the ER waiting room. An ambulance picked her up, took her around to the ambulance door, through triage and then sat her down in the exact same chair! The said good night and then walked off.

Maybe it has to do with the fact that he knew that if he had said that, then he would also be admitting that he broke the law and deliberately exposed hundreds of people for personal gain.

I had a 65% increase in insurance cost last year. Now I have changed my wife and son to the policies offered from her job. I had to change my son's doctor. I have increased my major medical deductibles from $500 to $2,000 for my wife and son. The...

Pt is a 34 month old male that has been potty trained for about 5 months. Mother states the pt went to bed the previous evening c/o severely upset stomach. During the night he supposedly had a large, fowl smelling, incontinent diarrhea stool at about...

i am sorry, but i can hardly believe how many people are having trouble finding jobs as new grads. both of the local rn programs require all 4th semester students to attend 1 lunch a week with recruiters from the local hospitals. local students norma...

Just a few thoughts that come to mind; 1. Know what sites to use for waht ages. 2. What meds cam be mixed with lidocaine and when to do so. (ex. Rocephen) 3. Personally, after drawing meds I always change to a new/sharp needle just before I inject an...

It has been my experience that students can, and most often do, drastically INCREASE your work load. But I do love having them around. it helps to keep you reminded just why we choose to do this.