DanidelionRN BSN, RN

Actually most hospitals I have worked at (traveled med surg to 10 states) have policies for med administration, and administering the med at the closest available port to the patient is the standard appropriate intervention. And flushing after each m...

Sounds like time for a new specialty. Are you interested in pursuing a job where you don't have 33pts?? Inpatient nursing, pacu, pre-op,clinics, public health, etc... Almost everything but long term care/rehab is going to be an improvement

Sounds to me like you're planning ahead to fail, instead of planning ahead to succeed. The only actually appropriate options are to resign and leave, which will probably screw over your coworker's vacation altogether and be a jackass move, or to con...

I think that the nurse in the original post is not just an enabler, but she suffers from a lack of personal boundaries in her relationships. It probably exists in all her relationships,not just that one. When you allow other people's wants and desir...

Depends on how precise the med is. If critically important, I would draw it up in smaller syringes. If this is something where it is less precise, I will draw it up to halfway between two lines, if I need the number in the middle.

Not every error is automatically reported to the BON. Did your employer tell you they were reporting you? If it a grievous error, like something that has seriously harmed a patient, it probably depends on why and how it happened. Was it gross neglig...

HCA hospitals are some of the lousiest ones in the country, and they do DNR people for a variety of bogus reasons. It shouldn't affect you outside of their systems, but there is very little to nothing you can do about it now. I would just look elsewh...

My husband is 31, and has had a life full of injuries, culminating in a car wreck that has pretty much left him disabled from working. Unfortunately, he got to experience part of the problem with narcotics that this country has. When he had the acc...

Very well stated. I worry about a hike like this because it essentially decreases my purchase power by about 40%, and it's not like insurance companies are going to pay hospitals more, or hospitals pay nurses more, just because of it. It will probab...

Where are you all at, geographically? I am curious about how location affects staffing practices.

To the person saying "maybe arcane rules at schools like having to abide by manufacturers expiration dates is why homeschooling exploded in the last few decades"....... As a homeschooled graduate, I would say no. The rule males sense for liability pu...

and you think that you have the right to demand answers from every caregiver you have, as to whether they own guns? I don't think so. You deal with people who have concealed carry weapons all the time- but because they are CONCEALED, you've got no ...

homeschooling is wonderful thing. I was homeschooled, and I cannot imagine a better way to learn and explore the world, than traveling around the country and learning as you go.

I am originally from Wisconsin- and I really supported their anti-union legislation recently. Previously, when I was looking for jobs in WI, I did not really see ANY differences between union and non-union positions, in the way of staffing, or pay, e...

You know, i lived on less than 8k a year for living expenses etc, when I was in college- it wasn't all that bad, especially if you divide out the cost of rent/utilities six ways, too. The problem with that example is that kids don't result in extra r...

What planet are you from? Fresh out of school I made 34k, (2011), time and a half for holidays/overtime, no weekend bonuses, no extra shift bonuses, shift differential was a dollar but I worked days so I didn't get that, and yeah, we got a raise- bu...

Romney, all the way. Why? Because he understands how to manage money. And because he's actually got a good record at the state level, and because he actually HAS a campaign platform, other than "attack the other guy". Obama has been an incompetent...

The difference is though, between patients refusing treatment or interventions... is that they have to be competent and alert/oriented to do so... and at times, that can mean choosing not to remain in a facility, if the things they want to refuse are...

I think that alarms should be a condition of staying at the facility, if indicated by the resident's condition. If the family wants to refuse, they should be told to kindly find their relative a new place to live, or provide 1:1 monitoring, themselve...

the link given by a previous commenter mentioned that tryptophan, building up in the body, could cause blue urine- particularly if one were constipated... often it seems that hospice patients do suffer of constipation at times.... is she eating lo...

I have a Littmann Master Classic II... I love it. I haven't had any issues with people stealing it, but then, I DON'T let it out of my sight. The idea of the store being too loud is not a very good reason to not hear well... remember- patient room...

Yes, it's LTC- but Rehab usually means there's a rehab unit- short term rehabilitation patients, rather than all long-term. They may stay a week to a few months, for anything from IV antibiotics and wound care, to therapy after having a knee replacem...

I don't get any differentials, personally- but i do work days. I did not hear about there being differentials for the night shift though. Our facility does though, have problems with some of the night shift nurses in some ways- several nurses I'v...

So.... In nursing school at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, where i graduated with my BSN last December- I was taught that patient education was one of the things that was specifically within the scope of practice of RNs, and only RNs, bec...

I posted this in a different forum, but so far no responses, so I figured I'd try here: So.... In nursing school at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, where i graduated with my BSN last December- I was taught that patient education was one of ...