Hilinenursegrl

So I know that if you have a trauma or something major come in you should get in an 18, or two. We have a nurse here who is what we all call a trauma junky. Our ER is small and we don't get alot of action, just usually alot of clinic stuff. In the la...

I just read this on an old thread here.This was a response about hand washing vs alcohol prior to fingerstick glucose testing. I read this about the carb traces and was really like What the heck. I tried to do a quick search to see if there was any ...

I think this post has really, really gotten off topic and I think it is time to close this thread or get back to the topic at hand. The OP started this thread not for pronunciation problems but for people (nurses) using the wrong word entirely; like...

I don't think the OP meant anything about pronouncing the words when this was written. The example used was STAT vs sat which are two entirely different things. Yes sometimes I don't like the way people pronounce things but using the enirely WRONG ...

Your new (less than one day) husband c/o a hemerrhoid and gets suppositories prescribed twice a day. You don't even think about having him do it himself you just take over the job so you know it's done right and you can assess the hemorrhoid twice ...

I am a new nurse in the ER. I give alot of IM injections and am wondering if I am giving them right. I have looked up charts and marked my landmarks. The one I am concerned with is the ventrogluteal site. If I landmark where my palm covers the greate...

Now I'm all for coming to work, I am the one who is always at least 15 mins early. The one morning I was 3 hours late was a very bad blizzard, those of you who don't live in Montana, Wyoming or North Dakota don't really know what that is. I work 50 m...

Before nursing school I worked in a couple different fast food places. Customers would often bring their bags in from drive through claiming that they got the wrong order. We would get them their order but I would always offer if they wanted the o...

This happened to me not long ago. My first time with the epi pen, trying to waste an expired one into the trash. I have no idea how it happened but it went off into my thumb! I feel so much better now that I know I am not the only one! LOL!

What is a myers cocktail and why does it need to be sterile?

I have a similar problem in my ER. Each shift is 7-730 and has two RNs. As always its the old day vs night shift fight. There is one dominant nurse on the day and one on the night that do nothing but fire emails to the boss about every little thin...

Ok there was a reason that staff closed this post in the first place. I believe somewhere in here Trauma made a comment about Medic beating a dead horse, but it was Trauma that started this thread, again. I for one have more to do than to watch rou...

I would advise you not to persue your nursing education any longer. If your feelings against it are that strong you need to follow your gut. I would not want you to be my nurse or the nurse for anyone I love. Not because you are a horrible person ...

I have to agree with you. I went through a two year program for an ADN and I spent a total of 18 hours in the ED. We spent way more than that on the medical floor. I started in the ED fresh out of school, I was very lucky, and its a small ED. Whe...

And a seventh that our instructers always told us was... Right to refuse

This issue was brought up last night here with another nurse and I thought I would throw it out there to get some different opinions. I have always put needles, and broken ampules in the sharps container but when it comes to the small glass bottles ...

Wow I guess posting this question has left me more confused now! LOL, seriously though I guess I will just have to look up the policy or ask the safety manager. Thanks for all the responses,

That's why you shouldn't only rely on the little drop down phrases and all, but you should also type notes and comments just like you would if you were paper charting, I see no difference.

I thought stuff like that goes in an incident report, not the pt chart. At least that's the way it is here.

They don't expect you to remember it. It should be in the chart. It has always been beat through my head how important documentation is. I hope I am never in this situation but I also hope if I am my documentation will back me up.

Never play with your friends' "pet" raccoon and then be shocked that they won't have it killed and you have to get through a whole series of rabies shots "just to be safe"

From the way you say you are so depressed and suffering from panic attacks it sounds like you need to set up a councelling session. It seems from the information you have given us that you should not be having such a stong emotional reaction to this...

http://www.gentlebirth.org/vre/vremain.html#What This link has alot of helpful information and the only thing I could find pertaining to babies was that it is harmful to newborns because of their immature immune system. Please read it and talk to yo...

You seem to be a little dramatic about this. Raises red flags to me that maybe there is more to the story. I am not sure about Ireland, but I know here in the US a med error does not destroy your career let alone your life. Let me put something in...

You job as her RN is to relieve her sx and help her heal from the surgery. There are RNs trained in what s/s to look for in addiction and that's why they specialize in that. And the itching is a very common side effect of narcotic pain meds, not a ...