MunoRN RN

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    Scope of Practice and medications?

    MunoRN replied to Catedi's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    Your understanding certainly isn't uncommon, I was part of a workgroup tasked with improving hospital to ECF / LTC transfers and this misunderstanding was one of the major barriers. In the workgroup...
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    Scope of Practice and medications?

    MunoRN replied to Catedi's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    The OP was not proposing giving a medication that wasn't ordered. If one patient has 25mg metoprolol ordered and then it's discontinued we don't then go through the whole facility and dispose of all...
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    Disheartened by Profession Realities

    MunoRN replied to 2BS Nurse's topic in General Nursing

    I get it, somedays you just have to vent, but aside from not really following what your general point is you have this a bit backwards. The PCR will typically show positive for longer than the...
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    Scope of Practice and medications?

    MunoRN replied to Catedi's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    There's certainly some truth to your argument if we're talking about medications that were the patient's personal property and are provided to the facility by the patient, but based on the OP's...
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    Scope of Practice and medications?

    MunoRN replied to Catedi's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    A "prescription" is physician's order for the medication, dose, route, etc, which is different from the medication itself. If the prescribed medication is the property of the patient then yes,...
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    Scope of Practice and medications?

    MunoRN replied to Catedi's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    I don't see where the OP stated "there are no stock meds", and actually the OP described their practice as administering meds from a stock supply. In correctional settings patients aren't...
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    Scope of Practice and medications?

    MunoRN replied to Catedi's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    What the OP is describing is not a violation of any law, practice act, or scope of practice. In situations where the nurse is assisting someone in taking medications they already own, typically...
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    Chest Tube LCS

    MunoRN replied to FutureNurse0201's topic in General Nursing

    The chest tubes commonly placed after CABG aren't the ones where it's important to keep them to suction continuously, particularly if the patient is upright (walking or sitting in a chair /...
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    Chest Tube LCS

    MunoRN replied to FutureNurse0201's topic in General Nursing

    We use the generic term "chest tube" for tubes that serve different purposes, the purpose of the tube along with what's going on with the patient that necessitates a tube is what determines what could...
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    Yes, Employer Can Require Covid Vaccine

    MunoRN replied to TheMoonisMyLantern's topic in Disaster Preparation

    It's one of two "publications" that the Falun Gong uses to recruit people, the other being the Epoch Times. Since, among other things, joining the Falun Gong involves accepting the idea that...
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    Yes, Employer Can Require Covid Vaccine

    MunoRN replied to TheMoonisMyLantern's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Many people have survived after free-falling more than 10,000 feet without the use of a parachute. Statistically, older age predicts a much higher risk of not surviving such a fall. Does this...
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    MNA and Nurses Respond to the Killing of George Floyd by Police

    MunoRN replied to tnbutterfly - Mary's topic in General Nursing

    Your article describes implicit bias as being a form of racism, it's subconscious racism as opposed to over racism, so I'm not sure how the supports the claim that racism isn't a form of bias....
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    MNA and Nurses Respond to the Killing of George Floyd by Police

    MunoRN replied to tnbutterfly - Mary's topic in General Nursing

    No, bias and racism are not two different things, racism is a subtype of bias. Bias based on someone's race is racism, bias based on someone's sex is sexism, bias based on someone's class is...
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    MNA and Nurses Respond to the Killing of George Floyd by Police

    MunoRN replied to tnbutterfly - Mary's topic in General Nursing

    You've pretty well shown that, like all of us, you are capable of bias. How do you define who isn't capable of bias, or is that everyone is capable of bias but it doesn't count as bias when...
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    Comfort care protocol.

    MunoRN replied to taly12's topic in General Nursing

    There are a number of validated pain and agitation scales for use in end-of-life care that PRN medication should be based on. Indicators of distress that aren't captured by these scales can still be...
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    MNA and Nurses Respond to the Killing of George Floyd by Police

    MunoRN replied to tnbutterfly - Mary's topic in General Nursing

    By definition, anyone can be racist. Racism is bias views or behavior based on someone's race, although at least some portion of what get's classified as racism is more accurately described as...
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    Nurses Refusing to Administer COVID-19 Vaccinations!? | Nurses Week Contest

    MunoRN replied to SafetyNurse1968's topic in General Nursing

    That I agree with, nurses can't refuse to provide a treatment, medication, or other intervention simply because it's not something they wouldn't chose for
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    Nurses Refusing to Administer COVID-19 Vaccinations!? | Nurses Week Contest

    MunoRN replied to SafetyNurse1968's topic in General Nursing

    I'm not really clear which stance you're arguing for, but being familiar with that case it should be clarified that the court mistated the Washington State Nursing Commission's position on nurses...
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    Salem Sump NGT

    MunoRN replied to Gardeninggirl's topic in General Nursing

    I use a gauze wrapped around the sump lumen so that it can catch the gastric juices that come out if it but without impairing the flow of air through
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    Happy Nurse's Week! You ROCK (literally a rock given to RN's for Nurse's Week)!

    MunoRN replied to CABGpatch_RN's topic in General Nursing

    I worked at a place where they hired some food trucks for lunch for Nurse's week. The hospital had always felt that doing something that was just for nurses to celebrate nurses was unfair to...
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    Covid Vaccine

    MunoRN replied to Nurseybl06's topic in Disaster Preparation

    I'm not sure why choosing to put others at increased risk shouldn't then result in rules that limit the effect that choice has on
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    MNA and Nurses Respond to the Killing of George Floyd by Police

    MunoRN replied to tnbutterfly - Mary's topic in General Nursing

    To clarify, you're saying that as a (presumably) white person you're more likely to be the victim of a violent crime by a black person than by a white
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    MNA and Nurses Respond to the Killing of George Floyd by Police

    MunoRN replied to tnbutterfly - Mary's topic in General Nursing

    The only ProPublica study I can find did not state that black police officers are more likely to kill black suspects, what study are you referring to? I think the reason people aren't upset that...
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    MNA and Nurses Respond to the Killing of George Floyd by Police

    MunoRN replied to tnbutterfly - Mary's topic in General Nursing

    The source you posted stated that "Black cops are just as likely as white cops to kill black suspects". And that's not buried somewhere in the article, it's the title of the article. Just...
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    MNA and Nurses Respond to the Killing of George Floyd by Police

    MunoRN replied to tnbutterfly - Mary's topic in General Nursing

    The overall data shows that black officers are just as likely as white officers to use lethal force against blacks, but it doesn't show they are more likely to shoot black people. More relevant...