Anna Flaxis

Anna Flaxis BSN, RN

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  1. Patient care question

    Anna Flaxis replied to LadybirdRN's topic in Hospice, Palliative

    I don't mean to make you feel interrogated with my direct, concise approach. I'm simply trying to point out that sometimes, we impose our own lens over a patient situation, when we should be meeting...

  2. Patient care question

    Anna Flaxis replied to LadybirdRN's topic in Hospice, Palliative

    Comfort is more than just pain meds. Maybe these people don't really care so much about insurance approvals and pain med regimens, but have a different frame of reference that they're working

  3. Patient care question

    Anna Flaxis replied to LadybirdRN's topic in Hospice, Palliative

    You think. Do you know what the patient

  4. Patient care question

    Anna Flaxis replied to LadybirdRN's topic in Hospice, Palliative

    Sometimes we admit for reasons of compassion, not necessarily medical necessity. Thank you for taking such good care of this

  5. Patient care question

    Anna Flaxis replied to LadybirdRN's topic in Hospice, Palliative

    That ^^ explains a lot. This poor man. I totally agree with the decision to admit, if for nothing more than comfort....

  6. Patient care question

    Anna Flaxis replied to LadybirdRN's topic in Hospice, Palliative

    You can bet that the ED staff weighed in too, and yet this is what was chosen. We can educate the decision makers (sometimes it's the patient, sometimes it's an MPOA, sometimes it's a...

  7. Actively bleeding patient

    Anna Flaxis replied to shnnon90's topic in General Nursing

    Circulation Airway

  8. CEN 2016!

    Anna Flaxis replied to Lev's topic in Emergency

    Yes, it was Mark

  9. Dealing with mean docs

    Anna Flaxis replied to MillyPeets1234's topic in Operating Room

    Write an incident report

  10. Is the ED for me?

    Anna Flaxis replied to litebrightgirl's topic in Emergency

    Emergency Medicine is not your specialty. However, Emergency Nursing may or may not

  11. EMS Radio Reports

    Anna Flaxis replied to TRC211's topic in Emergency

    Whoever is closest takes the call. Typically it's room assignment on arrival, unless the patient sounds really sick, then they're assigned to a resus room. Any staff nurse can make the assignment,...

  12. Psych nurses being forced to float to med surg and tele?

    Anna Flaxis replied to lovetosleep's topic in Psychiatric

    That doesn't seem right to me. I take no issue with having you task/resource or be counted as 1/2 nurse and take a small/easy assignment, but I think taking a full load with such a brief orientation...

  13. Psych nurses being forced to float to med surg and tele?

    Anna Flaxis replied to lovetosleep's topic in Psychiatric

    Will you be expected to take an assignment, or will you just be tasking and acting as

  14. Finally!

    Anna Flaxis replied to Stella_Blue's topic in General Nursing

    Congratulations! Persistence and a positive mental attitude really do pay

  15. Burnt out

    Anna Flaxis replied to Hippy chick's topic in General Nursing

    No House Supervisor? No other staff in the entire hospital? *Somebody* should be holding down the fort with the other patients- it doesn't have to be *you* per se, if you're tied up with a critical...

  16. New & Confused RN

    Anna Flaxis replied to Noel777's topic in General Nursing

    I've struggled with whether nursing was really for me, and have tried a few different jobs. Now I can honestly say that I love my job and I'm glad I became a nurse. For me, what it took was being...

  17. Burnt out

    Anna Flaxis replied to Hippy chick's topic in General Nursing

    So who was watching the other patients? Just because there is an RR or a code doesn't mean everyone else gets ignored. Where was your

  18. CEN 2016!

    Anna Flaxis replied to Lev's topic in Emergency

    Also, there was a fellow around here who had some free videos on YouTube. I forgot his name, and haven't really seen him around for a while. Anyone remember

  19. teenagers and pot

    Anna Flaxis replied to nursingaround1's topic in General Nursing

    There is promising evidence that cannabis could have medicinal value, but reliable, rigorous studies are lacking due to cannabis being listed as a Schedule 1 narcotic (of no medicinal value). Of...

  20. Fastest route to the heart via IV access?

    Anna Flaxis replied to Soran's topic in Emergency

    RNs are allowed to insert EJs at my hospital, but it's generally an act of desperation. Again, in theory, the right would be quicker than the left due to the shorter distance to the right atrium, but...

  21. IVs in the breast

    Anna Flaxis replied to kasekin's topic in General Nursing

    Yes, really. Potassium is a vesicant at concentrations greater than 2mEq/mL. Have you ever given KCl at that concentration? Vancomycin intended for peripheral use is generally mixed at a lower...

  22. CEN 2016!

    Anna Flaxis replied to Lev's topic in Emergency

    Lots and lots of practice exams.

  23. Fastest route to the heart via IV access?

    Anna Flaxis replied to Soran's topic in Emergency

    I would say a right EJ would probably be the fastest, since the right innominate is shorter than the

  24. Weed and work.

    Anna Flaxis replied to LDAthleteNurse's topic in General Nursing

    Incense.

  25. So can i loose my certificate and or be jailed??

    Anna Flaxis replied to ahurtcna's topic in Medical Assistant, CNA/MA

    I can't tell you what's going to happen, but I can tell you I think you SHOULD lose your certificate. That was very irresponsible of