AgentBeast MSN, RN

Emergency Nursing

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    How do you prepare yourself to not become emotional at work?

    AgentBeast replied to dramakid1315's topic in General Nursing

    There is no crying in baseball! Seriously though you have to walk a fine line between caring enough to be effective and caring too much to be unable to function as a nurse. You aren't doing anybody...
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    Mr. Harry the Excessive Hair Patient

    AgentBeast replied to Barbie8808's topic in General Nursing

    Get the Cath lab
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    Two Narc Discrepancies, One Night

    AgentBeast replied to Meeperz's topic in General Nursing

    Maalox (Or whatever antacid) and Lidocaine aren't controlled
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    Reasons to lose nursing license?

    AgentBeast replied to Srobbins2310's topic in General Nursing

    Drugs and gross
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    PCCN certification - Should I expect a pay differential?

    AgentBeast replied to Nurse Beth's topic in Career Advice Column

    One place I work paid nothing. The place I currently work pays $500 per initial certification and $100 a year for each year you maintain the certification up to a combined yearly max bonus of $1000 in...
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    Amiodarone

    AgentBeast replied to BecomingNursey's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    There are no mistakes in codes only mistakes in documentation. The patient is dead you can't make them more dead. You push meds as fast as they will go in with a dead
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    IV hub clotting up!

    AgentBeast replied to UrgentLiving's topic in General Nursing

    Are these iv's in the AC or across a joint? Whenever the patient bends his or her elbow or moves the joint a little saline is shot out and when the elbow straightens blood gets sucked in. See it all...
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    How to become a CNA while in nursing school?

    AgentBeast replied to khnguyen94's topic in General Nursing

    https://www.cdph.ca.gov/pubsforms/forms/CtrldForms/cdph283b.pdf
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    Digoxin twice a day?

    AgentBeast replied to Libby1987's topic in Cardiac

    Digoxin is a maintenance medication there is no point splitting a single daily dosage in half to get two doses per day just like there isn't any point in splitting a patient's 5mg once daily dose of...
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    Digoxin twice a day?

    AgentBeast replied to Libby1987's topic in Cardiac

    That's more like carvedilol dosing. Digoxin is dosed in micrograms (mcg). Maintenance dosing is once a day or once every other day in doses generally up to 250mcg. 6.25mg is 6250mcg 25-50x the typical...
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    Max dose for humalog?

    AgentBeast replied to Michelle King's topic in Patient Medications

    Hell I've given 280 units of Humalog to a patient
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    Actively bleeding patient

    AgentBeast replied to shnnon90's topic in General Nursing

    With someone who is bleeding profusely enough to cause his or her heart to stop beating it's highly likely that no matter what you do this person will die. That doesn't mean you shouldn't try to save...
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    Nurse license plate

    AgentBeast replied to nursesaurus's topic in Ohio Nursing

    Need to collect 500 signatures and then have a bill pass the legislature for the nursing license plates to become a reality. Anyone could get these plates. Much like the various University License...
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    What's your favorite floor

    AgentBeast replied to guitargirl88's topic in General Nursing

    I love the dance
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    Ventricular tachycardia

    AgentBeast replied to mialamia's topic in General Nursing

    Um you mean adenosine? Atropine will never slow a patients heart rate
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    Status on BON says "current"?

    AgentBeast replied to albreh's topic in General Nursing

    Probably be more appropriate to say what state you are in and post this in the appropriate
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    Solutions for Tired, Achy Feet

    AgentBeast replied to Lynda Lampert, RN's topic in General Nursing

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    IV bolus ordered because pt hypertensive

    AgentBeast replied to Are Enn's topic in Patient Medications

    Sepsis. The first thing that happens is the heart rate goes up. Then after a while blood pressure starts to tank. Management of sepsis starts with fluid bolus and broad spectrum
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    Air to Bladder

    AgentBeast replied to NewlyGradBSN's topic in General Nursing

    It's not harmful, but it's not effective either. Air is a gas and gasses compress. So if the catheter is clogged up good all the air is doing is compressing in the catheter. Fluids do not
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    to hold or give insulin?

    AgentBeast replied to ViolinTreble's topic in Medical-Surgical

    You do NOT hold sliding scale insulin just because a patient is NPO. Sliding scale insulin is correctional insulin to get the patient back down into a normal range whatever that might be for this...
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    Cleveland Clinic RN assessments

    AgentBeast replied to blizzard281's topic in Ohio Nursing

    You pay income tax at the city of Cleveland Rate of 2% (or if at one of the regional hospitals at that cities rate.) Then at the end of the year you "pay" income taxes to your municipality. I put pay...
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    fall 2014 4520

    AgentBeast replied to after30years's topic in Ohio University

    Yeah no 15 page actual assessments. Week 1 was 1 DB post 2 replies, a 15 question quiz, and the health history on the virtual patient. Weeks 2-4 1 Reflective journal on that weeks readings, a 15...
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    fall 2014 4520

    AgentBeast replied to after30years's topic in Ohio University

    Yeah I'm in this class. It isn't that bad. I sort of like the virtual assessment lab
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    Tikosyn

    AgentBeast replied to CardiacKittyRN's topic in Cardiac

    Sotalol isn't a sodium channel
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    Anxious Patient, Possible Biliary Drain Dislodgement, and Nervous Nurse-HELP!

    AgentBeast replied to blackdiamond407's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Yeah no, you aren't going to easily pull out a biliary drain, and you aren't going to pull out a PICC line doing a dressing