tokebi

tokebi

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  1. Will I be in over my head? Advice please!

    tokebi replied to FutureNurseNYC's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    I wish I had half the determination as you. Your story is inspiring! As numerous posters already said, it sounds like you'll do just fine. I have no doubt you'll manage sciences well. Most people who...

  2. WFI was possibly used to prime a 3 way tap- Advice please!

    tokebi replied to Errin's topic in Patient Medications

    I'm not sure what 3 way tap or PIVC are, but I don't think a few mls of water would be problematic. It was sterile water, right? It would be a different story if the patient received a large bolus or...

  3. Help with Insulin/syringe math!!!

    tokebi replied to Confusedd's topic in Patient Medications

    U-50 insulin contains 50 units in each mL, and so 5 units would be 0.1mL. U-100 syringe is calibrated such that each unit equals 0.001mL (100 units in 1mL). You need to draw up 0.1mL, which would be...

  4. Different Types Of Coworkers

    tokebi replied to TheCommuter's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I don't take offense either. It's a humor piece. I simply wanted to neutralize a bit because you rarely see anything positive about those MSN grads around here. There are good nurses and bad nurses...

  5. Different Types Of Coworkers

    tokebi replied to TheCommuter's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    That was entertaining... but I see so much negativity towards second-career MSNs in general that I feel the need to offer a different view in defense of wonderful new nurses I graduated with. After a...

  6. Woundvac help!

    tokebi replied to kansasredneckwomen's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    I've never seen an wound edge get sucked and pressed against the foam that's cut smaller. I've felt that it fits perfectly if I cut the foam a couple millimeters larger than the wound (cut the foam...

  7. What are your white board goals?

    tokebi replied to BiohazardBetty's topic in Patient Education

    Some nurses on my unit will write things like transfusions or electrolyte replacement. I find cancer patients/family like knowing those things, and also want to know their "numbers." If they're on...

  8. Question about neutropenic lab values

    tokebi replied to Keren_fa's topic in Oncology

    Could it be "low panic?" I really don't know. I just seem to remember critical lab values called as "panic" values somewhere in the past. So I just thought maybe your place has labels such as "low...

  9. Alternative Therapies with Western medical model

    tokebi replied to boywork's topic in Patient Education

    This "big evil pharma" myth is getting old. They aren't certainly the only ones wanting profits. Vitamin and supplement industries are billions-dollar business. Homeopathy businesses and practitioners...

  10. I quit my LPN job in LTC

    tokebi replied to Blackcat99's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    I am so sorry it had to come to that. I know the feeling too well. The place I used to work is probably better than some, but I still hated not being able to do all that I felt I should do as a nurse....

  11. If you weren't a nurse, what would you have become?

    tokebi replied to wooh's topic in General Nursing

    If I hadn't suddenly decided to join military long ago, I would've become a computer animator. Sometimes I still dream of working in Pixar... If I hadn't later decided to go back to nursing, I...

  12. Computerized MAR

    tokebi replied to paullissa's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    I'm curious about eMAR in LTC setting. Do you scan the ID band and each

  13. LTC med pass

    tokebi replied to jennell209's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    - Don't waste time trying to convince stubborn residents to take their meds. Just document refused and then try to talk to them during downtime. - Reduce walking around needlessly by clustering tasks...

  14. Is it really worth it getting it?

    tokebi replied to EMEddie's topic in General Nursing

    IP will help if you're hired and about to start but don't have license by the start date. But then, not all hospitals recognize

  15. Clientell Satisfaction

    tokebi replied to Born_2BRN's topic in General Nursing

    There's no reason you should defend yourself because of medical decision you had no control over. Sounds like what you need to do is demand that the physician face the patient and explain the...

  16. Allowing Corpsman to Become Nurses

    tokebi replied to Asystole RN's topic in Government, Military

    I have a tremendous respect and pride for US military, having been a part of it, and in support of benefits for the members as they adjust to civilian life. But, it's hard for me to understand why...

  17. Drip Rate Help

    tokebi replied to rk15's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    Antibiotics are in power form which is then mixed into fluids like NS or D5W. As loriangel stated, you cannot equate units of mass for solids to units of volume for liquid. Once you know that 100ml of...

  18. when a patient has chills and shivers?

    tokebi replied to tokebi's topic in Oncology

    Thank you

  19. when a patient has chills and shivers?

    tokebi posted a topic in Oncology

    Is it okay to give warm blankets and bundle them up for comfort? When the patient spiked shortly after, we ended up putting cold packs in addition to Tylenol. So, I'm wondering if I shouldn't have put...

  20. Burnt-out at the last semester (BSN) for a M-urse. Need advice STAT!

    tokebi replied to TurtleLittle's topic in General Students

    Do you know many of the things you pointed out are actually common experience? I thought many nursing theories were BS, I was dissatisfied with science courses, many of my colleagues had to suffer...

  21. The flu shot making people sick

    tokebi replied to psu_213's topic in Disaster Preparation

    The thing is, vaccination is about quipping our bodies to fight diseases. Good nutrition and general health are essential, no doubt about it. That's because healthy body has healthy immune system and...

  22. What's the biggest mistake you've ever made as a nurse? What did you learn from it?

    tokebi replied to Mini-Murse's topic in General Nursing

    That is truly scary. It reminds me of an error that we discovered once at my LTC job. A narcotic discrepancy led to our discovery that a patient has received several doses of subQ injection of...

  23. Time to call a duck a duck?

    tokebi replied to eriksoln's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    But the great thing about wikipedia is that they list references. What I used to do is get the general info on wiki, go to the source, get more detailed info and cite it, or follow more references...

  24. The flu shot making people sick

    tokebi replied to psu_213's topic in Disaster Preparation

    The horror of people dying left and right from infectious diseases has become such a distant memory that people simply forget why we have vaccines to begin with. Instead, it's become a political...

  25. First shift of preceptorship: told that my IV priming is wrong

    tokebi replied to seks's topic in General Nursing

    We use Alaris and I noticed that certain tubings will not dribble further with the cap on once the fluid reaches the end. So, if there is a big pocket of air, you'd have to open the cap. It's unfair...