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  1. Something to brighten your day

    tolerantgirl posted a topic in General Nursing

    I just want to tell all the nurses here to have a wonderful week at work this week because you make a difference everyday and I know that is hard to see sometimes, but you do. Have a wonderful

  2. Wasting Narcotics

    tolerantgirl posted a topic in General Nursing

    A nurse asked me to witness a waste that happened on a night shift, but she didn't waste it, she said she accidentally threw it away and remembered it when she came to work. I told her no not because...

  3. Floating

    tolerantgirl posted a topic in General Nursing

    This is my first year in nursing. I have been off orientation for 3 months. I have never floated anywhere before. I'm not really sure what the floating policies are at my hospital. My question is,...

  4. help with a calculation please

    tolerantgirl replied to tolerantgirl's topic in General Nursing

    Yes, that is why I was confused because it didnt specify 2mcg/min. it just said 2mcg but then i looked in the pharmacy titration book our pharmacy has and epi is mcg/min so i was able to figure it out...

  5. help with a calculation please

    tolerantgirl posted a topic in General Nursing

    there is an order for an epi gtt at 2mcg. epinephrine 2mg/250ml. what is the rate of infusion= ml/hr. Any help would be

  6. help with a calculation please

    tolerantgirl replied to tolerantgirl's topic in General Nursing

    Sorry forgot to post my work. I figured it

  7. help with a calculation please

    tolerantgirl replied to tolerantgirl's topic in General Nursing

    It's not homework. I just was having a brain freeze and I needed to figure it out. So I spent the last hour doing that. And I figured it out by myself. Thanks for all of your help and

  8. help with a calculation please

    tolerantgirl replied to tolerantgirl's topic in General Nursing

    Got it! 2mg/250ml=0.008 x 1000=8mcg/ml 2mcg/8mcg x 60 min= 15ml/hr I guess I had a brain

  9. what's wrong with HCA hospitals?

    tolerantgirl replied to NurseNature's topic in General Nursing

    I work at HCA-same thing going on. No one to watch your patient when you go to lunch, never seeing or speaking to charge nurse all shift because there is only 1, doing your own orders, answering...

  10. Floating

    tolerantgirl replied to tolerantgirl's topic in General Nursing

    I asked a couple of months ago if I could get orientation over on the other floor so that when I am floated, I will know where everything ids, how things go, etc. but I was told that there is not...

  11. FRUSTRATED

    tolerantgirl posted a topic in General Nursing

    I am a new nurse and I was really looking forward to taking care of patients. In fact, that is the easy part. The hard part is listening to all the negativity from administration. We are not allowed...

  12. Nursing knowledge please!

    tolerantgirl posted a topic in General Nursing

    If you have a patient that scd's ordered, would you have venous dopplers done before applying them to make sure the patient does not have a blood clot? I asked this question to a CV nurse practitioner...

  13. working nights as opposed to working days

    tolerantgirl replied to tolerantgirl's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I think this would be the best decision for me and my family. I can never get out of work on time. I seem to have a pattern of leaving at 9pm all the time. I just feel like I really struggle to keep...

  14. Feel inadequate-need advice

    tolerantgirl posted a topic in General Nursing

    I received two patients-new admissions from er at the same time (I work in ICU). I could not do both, I had to get help, I had to get charge nurse to admit one and do assessment bc I couldn't do both....

  15. I need some nursing knowledge shares please-new nurse

    tolerantgirl posted a topic in General Nursing

    I have two quetstions: 1. Can you give dialysis patients lovenox for dvt prevention? 2. Would you place SCD's on a patient who had diabetic ulcers on their lower legs with dressings? ok maybe one more...

  16. giving report to rude nurses

    tolerantgirl posted a topic in General Nursing

    Last night was the first night I came across a rude nurse during report. First of all, I agreed to stay late for this nurse because she had a flat tire. When I started to give her report, she kept...

  17. help with charting

    tolerantgirl posted a topic in First Year After Licensure

    Help!!! We have computerized charting. We do every 4 hour assessments which is easy because it goes by systems, but we also have to do narrative charting in the computer. We are required to make a...

  18. First medication error- I am quitting nursing

    tolerantgirl posted a topic in First Year After Licensure

    I had a horrible week at work. I had a prisoner who tried to hit and kick me everytime I tried to touch him to do am assessment. He refused all his care and he called me allsprts of wonderful names...

  19. frustrated with internship

    tolerantgirl posted a topic in First Year After Licensure

    I am in an ICU internship and for the most part it is great, but I am having trouble getting practice with vent patients and it all has to do with assignments, so I will get put in CCU with my...

  20. Frustrated with preceptor

    tolerantgirl posted a topic in General Nursing

    I am so frustrated with my preceptor that I want to quit. My preceptor is a great teacher, but has no patience. The biggest gripe I have is that my preceptor chooses to criticize me infront of other...

  21. MRSA Swabs

    tolerantgirl replied to nursebrandie28's topic in General Nursing

    Where I work, we also test for MRSA in nares on admission and then every 7 days after. We also have to wear isolation gowns and gloves even if we go in the room to hang a med and not touch the...

  22. lamictal

    tolerantgirl posted a topic in Nurses Recovery

    Why would a psychiatrist give someone lamictal if they have anxiety? And since lamictal is used to treat bipolar disorder, wouldn't a person lose their

  23. blood transfusions

    tolerantgirl posted a topic in General Nursing

    We use Y-tubing to transfuse blood. I have a questions regarding priming with NS and transfusing blood. After you prime tubing with the NS, you clamp the NS and then spike your blood. Do you keep the...

  24. blood transfusions

    tolerantgirl replied to tolerantgirl's topic in General Nursing

    Thank you. That is what I did, but when I got home, I thought I had made a mistake keeping the NS clamped. That's what happens to me when I get home, I completel rethink everything I have done at...

  25. suicide

    tolerantgirl posted a topic in Psychiatric

    My son tried to kill himself yesterday at 4am. He took an overdose of malaron that he found from when my husband went out of the country. He woke up in the morning around 11am and told me he had...