Nursey103 ADN, RN

He knew my rationale because I explained it exactly to him but he may not have heard me over his anger & yelling.

Thank you & yes that's exactly why I don't push the meds together. When I get patients that do have itching w/ narcotics, I usually give the Benadryl before & sometimes at the same time depending on both doses & if they're on oxinet.

I should have been clear, I didn't give the Dilaudid w/ the Benadryl because I didn't feel it was safe (my OP: I'm not there to give him everything he asks for....if it's not safe!). I only had the patient a total of 1 hour before he fired me so I ...

That's exactly what the nurse before told me...her own words, not mine.

I agree but I remember being a student....the #1 thing you think about is NOT hurting or killing a patient. Sounds ridiculous but that was always a fear of mine!! It's easy to be very task oriented in the beginning...I'm about a year & a half in ...

I'm in California & the most patients we take is 5. We do have break nurses who come in for 4 hours & break us but we don't get one everyday & this is my hospital....don't know if every hospital is like this. Sometimes I'm so busy I don...

We have a sliding scale at my hospital & once pt is NPO we switch to doing the accu chks Q4. We have different algorithms & depending on which one it is, we would definitely cover the pt. For 153, I think we'd only give 1 unit but we definit...

I also prime the line with NS first, clamp it & then spike the blood. I run it fast at first & when the blood gets close to the patient I slow it down & then begin my timing.

I work on a med/surg floor with a lot of gyn/onc pts & Zofran 8mg is a standard order....usually given Q6.

I've been working nights for a little over a year & it's the same for me...always feeling exhausted. If I can wake up a lil earlier on my day off....yea I'll still be a zombie that day but... if I can get to sleep at a decent hr later that night...

Did you draw up the Rocephin or did your charge nurse?? Why did you have to go to your charge nurse for a syringe??

How about having a PCA pump & then having the TPN on a different pump attached to the PCA tubing (port nearest the patient)...??

Wow...what an idiot. Well on the flip side....I'd like all my patients to be male, sweet, a good listener...about 6'1 & of course hot as hell!! Maybe then I wouldn't mind running to the call light every 5 minutes

Yup....I have this problem too!! The most frustrating question I get all the time: Is this normal?? I never know how to respond to that one!! We get lots of post ops on our floor & it's always some random symptom.... Or another one I get.......

Ugh....VIP patients...say no more. Can you refuse to have him as a patient??

To the OP, I love working nights for all the reasons everyone has already listed but lately I'm so fatigued that I don't want to do anything on my days off. I find it too hard to switch to a day schedule when I only have 3 days off & the first o...

Well, I work 7p to 7:30a. I wake up about 3 or 4 p.m.....start getting ready for work at 5:30 p.m.....out the door by 6:15 p.m.....come home about 8 a.m. & in bed by 9 a.m. ...then start all over again. When would you suggest I see my family &a...

I won't tell you what you should do but I will say I felt the same way when I left my last job. I quit to start nursing school so I could focus on nursing full-time but it was hard to leave!!!!!!! This sounds super egotistical I know, but I felt like...

Oohhh also a quick cool sidenote....I actually got to meet Patricia Benner last year!! I was apart of a video that demonstrated the teaching style of one of my instructors!! :)

Wow, I feel exactly the same way. I'm about a month away from my 1 year & still feel like I don't "get it" yet. I handle my assignments well. I still feel very task-oriented & I know I need to get better w/ my critical thinking. I still ask ...

Ok...a little background of this particular patient: She's a 50 something y/o female w/ hx of cervical cancer admitted for pyelonephritis. I get warned by the charge nurse that she's tough to handle (that's all the info I get) as I get handed my assi...

BTW, she doesn't take Ativan or sleeping pills at home & she only takes Norco for pain so she is taking quite a bit in the hospital compared to what she normally takes at home. I did apologize to her & told her it wasn't my intention to sca...

So besides documenting her vitals/respiratory status....how do I deal with this type of patient directly?? I guess that's my main problem. I didn't know how to communicate with her. She was being totally unreasonable!! She also asked me "How long ha...

Yes! I most certainly documented everything she refused!!

1. what is your degree in? adn 2. what state do you live in? southern california 3. what is your job title? rn (new grad) 4. how much do you make an hour? $36/hr (that's including differentials) 5. how much do you make a year? a lil over $67...