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I was wondering if anyone knew if pushing hydralazine fast has an increased risk of SVT? Here is why I ask: I received handoff on two of my four patients from one nurse. On patient #1 she reported to me that she had given the patient hydralazine 20m...

I've seen them in the teens before, but nothing higher. Wow

Continuity of care. There is an additional handoff every 24 hours with 8 hour shifts as compared to 12s. This is another chance for patient information to be lost, and another nurse for the patient to have to get to know and trust. With the time spen...

Oh there is an IM injection, 75mg, my mistake. I assume this is what you injected? Although from what I can find it isn't used here...

It doesn't look like there is a IV dose for this med. Did you use a topical cream and inject it? Or crush a pill and inject it? Or is this a joke...

We had an aide that was sitting and would update her FB from her phone about how she had just watched 2 movies and how she couldn't believe they were paying her for it. Well I guess she forgot that she had many coworkers on her FB and word got around...

So texting while driving? Don't want to end up as your patients roommate! Our unit got so bad with texting and inappropriate use of the computer that now both are banned. Sucks for the rest of us, but something needed to be done. Unfortunately it was...

Water follows salt. If you have a lot of salt in your body then you will retain water, thus gaining weight, increasing edema and blood pressure, etc.

Wow that really seems to be way too much. I don't like driving a hour to work but one of the reasons I stay at my job because I am scared of situations like that. You are braver than I. Good luck to you

Same. We fill out a form and then it shows up next day for 0900 meds. I have had a Dr say he didn't want the patient to get the shot before though, but never an order to give it.

They come monitored with a nurse from our ED (or anywhere else) to our Tele. For tests we have some rules to follow to see if they wil go with a nurse or not. The most common reasons to send with a nurse are: 1. 2. Chest pain in the last 24 hours ...

I think it depends on a lot of things. Like how much lantus and how much are they used to getting? What are their trends like after they get the lantus? If I have a patient with a blood sugar less than 100 I always go back and see what their blood su...

I work on a Telemerty floor and we have 6 "pods" that are divided into 3 separate catagories. We have 2 pods for medical tele, 2 pods for post CABG, and 2 pods for chest pain/vascular/post cath. I work on the last. Normally you work on your home pods...

I graduated High school with a 2.8 and a baby. After years of working at burger king Bush took away the assisstance I was using for daycare so suddenly it was too expensive to work, I would bring home $200 every two weeks after taxes and daycare. So ...

Ok so benzos are ok to have in your system, with a prescription? And narcs are not? Is this correct information?

Yes, I have a good job. It is only one of our pods that goes 3:1 and it is when we have fresh carotids (fresh is

SOB exacerbation :yeah:

I was hired on the floor where I did my last clinicals. The nurse I did them with got me an interview. This was May 2008 before all this hit.

I wouldn't be so quick to say "of course she was way off" I work on a Tele floor and I had a patient once that was waiting for a med/surg bed. She was there for asthma exacerbation, and considered non tele so we didn't have her on the monitor. When I...

Our hospital restricts visitors under the age of 12. They do it every flu season, this year is nothing new. Hate it when I see little kids crawling around on the floor (during the off season) and if you say something to the parents about it being dir...

We lost our Baylor program as well, but those nurses just started doing threes, they didn't have to get rehired. That's crazy that you have to interview. Good luck!

did you have a mean doctor yell at you today?

If it is on your shoulder than I would think that no one could see it under scrubs. It would be just like any other job, cover it for work and your interview. I have one and it is always covered and I haven't had any problems

I'm confused, I thought you only had a CNA, LPN and new grad BSN. Where did your RN come from?

I've never seen it mixed either. I push slowly over a couple of minutes, but I have also never given more that 1.5mg at a time.