wooh BSN, RN

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    Acetylcysteine

    wooh replied to MedTrans68's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    Or PO if you want the person to think twice next time they decide to take a bottle of
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    Help! Critical lab: morale -2.5

    wooh replied to Cinquefoil's topic in Medical-Surgical

    You like to chart thoroughly, but you know it's only bean counters and (possibly) attorneys that are going to read it. Chart for them. Bare minimum to show you did what you have to do. And...
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    If a patient comes to the hospital with viral gastroenteritis...

    wooh replied to AspiringRN27's topic in General Nursing

    They aren't quarantined, and even if they were, nurses are still going to be required to care for them, vomit and
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    Acetylcysteine

    wooh replied to MedTrans68's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    If he was coughing hard enough to cough himself out of the bed, it sounds like his cough WAS adequate that suction wasn't
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    RNs to do glucose checks on patients without DM

    wooh replied to sistrmoon's topic in General Nursing

    And your profile says you do ICU. Big difference between adding a task to someone with 2 patients and adding a task to someone with
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    Handicapped Access Ramps

    wooh replied to Cobweb's topic in General Nursing

    If I was left with the responsibility, I'd need a short note because I don't have time to be verbose when I'm keying a car. One might forget their placard when parked in a SPACE but if you park in the...
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    Whooping cough redux; your story?

    wooh replied to nurseprnRN's topic in General Nursing

    While I have seen 8 vaccines given all at once, it was only in a toddler that hadn't received any vaccines and the parents saw the error of their ways when he was hospitalized with meningitis. So...
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    How does your facility prevent falls?

    wooh replied to GoldiesMom's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    And after their next assessment are liver enzymes ordered to check why they're suddenly
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    Is it OK to say no to a nurse?

    wooh replied to MsPebbles's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    What I said working as an aide and what I'm fine with hearing now: "Sorry, I'm going to be in 448 with this patient for a while, I'll be in there to help you in about 5
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    Do Press Ganey Scores measure Quality Care?

    wooh replied to BrnEyedGirl's topic in General Nursing

    We're told we can't get better staffing until we do better on questions like that. You realize that LOGIC isn't actually taken into account with staffing, right?
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    Concurrent IVS

    wooh replied to Kaltia's topic in Patient Medications

    Please clarify this. So if I have one IV, with a Y (or triple or whatever) going into it, I don't have to worry about compatibility? Is this only if the Y is directly screwed into cannula, or can I...
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    NP working as RN?

    wooh replied to APei's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    You're in Georgia. Georgia pay for RNs is atrocious compared to most of the
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    Critique of Nursing School

    wooh replied to NormaSaline's topic in General Students

    Well if the papers are "mindless" then they do need to be eliminated. Of course, some of use used our brain to write our papers when we were in
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    Would you take a $3 hr pay decrease for better ratios and working conditions?

    wooh replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    This. Exactly. I'd require guarantees before I willingly fell for the so-called promise of better conditions. Of course, there's nothing these days stopping management from just cutting our pay...
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    The Worst Hospital Visitor I've Ever Seen

    wooh replied to Ruby Vee's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    There's a peg for every
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    On-Call Pay Survey

    wooh replied to danimal99's topic in General Nursing

    When I looked into it because our work tried to get rid of call pay, I believe (and not a lawyer, but how I interpreted the Dept of Labor regulations for my state) was that you can be voluntarily on...
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    I Need some kind of RN Career Counselor

    wooh replied to Nurse J1112's topic in General Nursing

    Customer service is here to stay. And unfortunately in hospitals, customer service = kissing petooty no matter how out of line that petooty may be. Retail has long ago learned that to meet...
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    The Worst Hospital Visitor I've Ever Seen

    wooh replied to Ruby Vee's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Doing peds, I would really appreciate if patients' parents/parents' significant others/people that parents just met in the lobby/etc. could find a form of stress relief other than having sex in...
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    Walked in on a pt rolling a joint

    wooh replied to Anonymous666's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    So please explain to us the proper amount he should enjoy them. Please point to the line in the sand that becomes enjoying them "too
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    Walked in on a pt rolling a joint

    wooh replied to Anonymous666's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I think the problem many of us have with the "enjoys his meds too much" is we're wondering what the appropriate amount he should enjoy them would be? At what point is he appropriately enjoying his...
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    charge nurse drama

    wooh replied to Nurse-84's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    There's a HUGE SPACE between letting people drown and letting them refuse more work. If someone is truly drowning, you can help them. You can let them hold off on their turn to admit until later...
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    Walked in on a pt rolling a joint

    wooh replied to Anonymous666's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    What are you afraid of, that he'll
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    Clinical drama-question about personal property

    wooh replied to chiasmus100's topic in General Students

    Ironically, the thread would die, and then someone would come back a day later posting on it how it should die, reviving it like CPR on a DNR
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    Do power cords for IV pumps bother you?

    wooh replied to jcalvin's topic in General Nursing

    Not the power cord. The impossible to get to power outlets (and not enough of them) are what bother
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    Who's for banning rotating shifts?

    wooh replied to Lev's topic in General Nursing

    We should ban night shifts