I am very interested to know why you do not feel it is important to know how much or when we last administered a very potent narcotic pain medication:confused:
Dentures!!! I can handle the smell of gas gangrene but I can't stand dentures. I don't even like to touch the denture cup (Also, extra digits freak me out.)
A few years ago I saw some pictures taken during a patient upper endoscopy after he had been trying to siphon water from his water bed using as old garden hose. He was sucking on the hose to get the flow of water started and inhaled an ant nest! ...
I looked into Phoenix and then chose Indiana Wesleyan University. It is 100% online. You log in any time 24/7. It is 280/credit hour with most classes being 3 credit hours. They have a nice payment plan for people with some tuition reembursment. ...
I had numbness also. They told me that if it did not resolve 6 weeks it never would. Well they were wrong. I was numb (chin, right side of upper lip) for a year. The feeling slowly came back and is almost normal now. It did drive me crazy and wh...
you were not blowing this out of proportion. The cath nurse is uneducated in our specialty and safe staffing ratios. I would feel the same way. :angryfire
hips,and total knees go on beds all most all others go on stretchers. I wish all pts could go on beds. They say it is too much wear and tear on the expensive beds.
kyti replied to BeenThereDoneThat74's topic in Management
I am a House Supervisor dealing with these same issues. When one unit is short we look to see if another unit is over. The least senior nurse floats. The exception would be if the least senior nurse did not have the skills to care for pt on the ...
we are staffed with all RN's and one LPN. Our LPN along with an OR transporter (nurse assistant) transport all our pts to the floor unless they are going to ICU(then the pts Rn and transporter take the pt). There is no way the floor RN's would come...