debgirl71 replied to Scooty Puff Jr's topic in Emergency
We ran out of most anything in an abboject. evidently the abbojects manufacturer was having issues. my boss also blames obama, but cmon. anyone notice how proprofol was suddenly hard to come by after MJ's death?
good reminder that regulations vary from state to state. in Texas, we've had safe harbor for as long as i can remember. oh, jslice, kudos for teaching yourself. sorry you haven't had good preceptorship. kinda sucks that your director would say such ...
eyeballs get me. i decided i needed to get over this little foible and assisted with postmortem eye harvesting for the lions eyebank. i hit the ground! fortunately i was able to convince my charge nurse that i was ok, so she didn't send me to the EC....
we have less of an issue with pain control and sedation in the unit where i work because most of our residents order a nurse driven protocol that we use. we have one private physician with frequent, chronic long term patients who admits to our unit a...
debgirl71 replied to amnesia's topic in Disabilities
i have 3 kids, one with severe adhd, one with auditory processing disorder, one with autism. my son with the auditory processing disorder has difficulty with strictly listening things, verbal directions, etc.. so i have him write down things like his...
debgirl71 replied to Ms. Nurse Assistant's topic in General Nursing
it really depends on the school. ours was 3 days a week, all day monday for didactic, all day tuesday and wednesday for clinicals. then i worked night shift as an aide thursday, friday, and saturday. i cooked for the week for my family on thursday, a...
my son has ecxzema and we avoid any synthetic products in soap or shampoo. see if your boss will let you use your own soap, and get an old fashioned glycerin soap (jason makes a good liquid soap with a pump dispenser). that and lots of heavy duty moi...
debgirl71 replied to NurseJacqui's topic in Emergency
yeah, food in the hospital is a loaded subject. i remember as a patient, just had my first child, and was i starving!! hello, labor for 14 hours will make you peckish. was not allowed double portions on my tray (i weighed 100 lbs immediate postpartu...
debgirl71 replied to jenfromjersey's topic in Emergency
dumbest order ever: tylenol 650 mg iv. huh? admittedly, the patient had a catastrophic abdomen and couldn't have anything pr or po, but tylenol iv? when i clarified it with the resident she said "can't you just draw up the elixer in a syringe?" no, ...
debgirl71 replied to squeakykitty's topic in Emergency
many things over many years... most disgusting: half eaten sandwich in folds on 800+ pound man. "that's where that went!!" the biggest problem was that he had just had a gastric bypass and was supposed to be on clear liquids still. blew his graft, al...
if you have a trauma patient the hemodynamics you need to worry about the most is obviously blood loss. acute blood loss is very easy to miss, since the only change you may notice is increased heart rate. but the cure is easy. do a type and cross. ha...