HamsterRN

HamsterRN ADN, RN

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  1. Administration of non approved FDA drugs

    HamsterRN replied to Kauai RN's topic in General Nursing

    Yes, homeopathic medications require FDA approval and are regulated (under section 201) and must be registered. Many medications that are lumped into the "homeopathic medicine" category are actually...

  2. Administration of non approved FDA drugs

    HamsterRN replied to Kauai RN's topic in General Nursing

    Maybe I'm misunderstanding the question, but I think we're all a little off base. Unless it is in clinical trials, every medication we give needs to have FDA approval, and yes sotalol is FDA...

  3. Joint Commission standard

    HamsterRN replied to icunurse1955's topic in General Nursing

    That's the point, they are responsible for knowing if there have been any significant changes since the current H&P was dictated and to document these changes if they exist. We use the same...

  4. "Graduating & Not Ready"

    HamsterRN replied to nursinggurl's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    The safest new grads are the ones who realize at the end of nursing school how much they don't

  5. Is your hospital discontinuing isolation precautions?

    HamsterRN replied to gypsyd8's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    That's one magical

  6. Education Needed?

    HamsterRN replied to greenfiremajick's topic in General Nursing

    Some states are looking at requiring a BSN within 10 years of working as an RN, I don't know of any that have made this official, but my state is very close and may be adding this requirement to those...

  7. Plz help with Bumex, amio, dopamine, cardizem calculations!

    HamsterRN replied to RamaMama's topic in General Nursing

    Please feel free to continue to ask questions, even if they're easy. Some say nurses tend to eat their young, I have no idea why they would get that

  8. Plz help with Bumex, amio, dopamine, cardizem calculations!

    HamsterRN replied to RamaMama's topic in General Nursing

    Whenever a solution has a 1:1 ratio of mg/ml, like your cardizem does, the mg/hr will be the same as the ml/hr. For the integrilin, multiply the number of mcg by the kg to get mcg/min, then multiply...

  9. When did patients become "clients"?

    HamsterRN replied to woahmelly's topic in General Nursing

    The term was encouraged by the ANA to help patients feel empowered. Numerous surveys were done that showed patients found the term either to be confusing, or offensive. A "client" is a...

  10. How much does your hospital ceo make?

    HamsterRN replied to vivicaq's topic in General Nursing

    The advantage of being Not-for-Profit, as many healthcare companies are, is that you don't have to report the salaries of executives or profits, so we don't know how much the CEO's of most hospitals...

  11. Going to Nursing School at an Older Age

    HamsterRN replied to AmaurosisFugax's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    More than half of all students starting nursing school today are entering nursing as a second career (or third or fourth). Of the 30 students in my nursing program, only 4 were under the age of 25....

  12. what color is your scrub-achute?

    HamsterRN replied to fungez's topic in General Nursing

    So one of the reasons for color coded scrubs is so that patients know who their Nurse is? Other than at shift change, I don't understand why a patient wouldn't have some idea of who their nurse

  13. Nurses don't diagnose! (wanna fight about it?!)

    HamsterRN replied to jjjoy's topic in General Nursing

    We recently went through a Joint Commission visit and had to go through all of our care plan templates before they came to make sure there was no longer any NANDA terminology used. The Joint...

  14. Technical problem in withdrawing drugs

    HamsterRN replied to Student Cheryl's topic in General Nursing

    The main purpose of plastic vial access devices is to avoid "coring" which is where the sharp, round, end of a needle cuts out a piece of rubber from from the top of the vial. If this occurs, then...

  15. Nurses don't diagnose! (wanna fight about it?!)

    HamsterRN replied to jjjoy's topic in General Nursing

    In nursing, Assessing a patient means to gather information, diagnosing is using that information to find root causes and to find solutions. If you base your plan of care on assessment only, then...

  16. Nurses don't diagnose! (wanna fight about it?!)

    HamsterRN replied to jjjoy's topic in General Nursing

    "Determining the reason", as you put it, is diagnosing. Diagnoses are based on assessment info, but they are not one in the same. If you've been doing that all along then you've been diagnosing all...

  17. Nurses don't diagnose! (wanna fight about it?!)

    HamsterRN replied to jjjoy's topic in General Nursing

    LPN's are certainly capable of critical thinking, my point is that RN's need to be capable of it as well. The difference in definition between LPN's and RN's is the degree to which we are expected to...

  18. Nurses don't diagnose! (wanna fight about it?!)

    HamsterRN replied to jjjoy's topic in General Nursing

    The difference between the APIE and ADPIE is the difference between LPN and RN nursing care. The "D" is what we base our plan of care

  19. Nurses don't diagnose! (wanna fight about it?!)

    HamsterRN replied to jjjoy's topic in General Nursing

  20. Nurses don't diagnose! (wanna fight about it?!)

    HamsterRN replied to jjjoy's topic in General Nursing

    A diagnosis is a description of a problem. While NANDA nursing diagnoses are now a thing of the past thanks to the Joint Commission and Patricia Benner, we still describe problems based on our...

  21. Nurses don't diagnose! (wanna fight about it?!)

    HamsterRN replied to jjjoy's topic in General Nursing

    It's true that every patient can fit into Nursing Diagnosis categories, it's not difficult when you use extremely broad, generic categorizations to define patients, the problem is that the...

  22. Seriously...

    HamsterRN replied to LouisVRN's topic in General Nursing

    In my experience with audits, I found that audits rarely capture information correctly. It could well be that more than 4 out of 28 are getting their daily education, it's the audit system that is...

  23. Technical problem in withdrawing drugs

    HamsterRN replied to Student Cheryl's topic in General Nursing

    I think there is some confusion about the type of needle being used to access the vials. At my hospital, you would have to use a different needle for each vial. This is because we use "needle-less...

  24. Lawyer who is a nurse

    HamsterRN replied to Ms Tusevljak's topic in General Nursing

    There is a nursing specialty called "Legal Nurse Consultant", there is even an accreditation: CLNC (Certified Legal Nurse

  25. Nurses don't diagnose! (wanna fight about it?!)

    HamsterRN replied to jjjoy's topic in General Nursing

    If I'm understanding you correctly, I agree. I'm not sure where the rumor got started that Nurses aren't allowed to diagnose, we're actually expected to diagnose of you read most states' standards of...