elijahvegas ASN, RN, EMT-P

Once upon a time... i had had a dementia patient. Sundown beyond all hell. He was medically cleared and we were ready to send him back to his ALF. He was a hard time from beginning to end. And even when we informed him we’d be taking him back to his ...

Something has been weighing on me for some time now, and I've generally kept it to myself mostly because I'm usually part of the "unpopular opinion" side of things, and for some time i decided to take the more helpful approach to making and respondin...

explain thoroughly what you're doing and why it needs to be done. and if theyre still hesitant, ask if they would feel more comfortable having a female nurse perform whatever task instead. easy peasy

ah i follow you now

id like more information on this USPHS you speak of

very confused. if you have 15ml of tubing, and a 50ml bag, thats precisely why you would set the VTBI on the pump to 60 or in this case 65. Unless your pumps switch to KVO mode after infusion or something. Ours dont.

HIPAA is weird and super gray, up for interpretation, and often debatable. what i do when i feel the need to post things like that is ill pretty much change all the info so that it doesn't really apply to my patients at all. so while you say you had...

set the pump to account for the fluid left in the tubing.. 50ml bag of abx VTBI 55-60

seems like everyone is overlooking the most important step...HR. especially now your boss got involved, and you have witnesses that can vouch for you when this cna decided to try to go over your head and escalate the issue, its your turn. go to HR, e...

I'd start off with looking at each branch and checking out the age cut off. RNs as far as I know go in as commissioned officers and their rank starts at o1 and goes up for every 2 years of civilian experience they bring, otherwise they spend like 6 m...

yeah cant for the life of me see any upside to getting a dnp gun to my head or it aint gonna happen

Get whar you can get whenever you can get it . But youll burn out quick if you go into something you have no interest in

You are essentially colleagues. Thats about it. You are not equal in knowledge by a long shot and if you even remotely think that, youve got a huge ego and wildly out of touch. Thing about nurses and docs is that we are much more expendable that doc...

Poster asked for things that we realized about our experiences after the fact. We all have great and fond memories and friends from our programs, but im pretty sure the op was asking mainly about what mistakes/misconceptions we had that we now know b...

do you not have an electronic system? im a bit confused at how you were able to scan a med that wasn't on the pts eMAR. mine wont let me proceed unless i scan the right med

some things i already knew but intensified when i got into nursing : -dont mention prior medical experience -dont show off your high marks--if anyone asks what grade you got on a test, answer with a letter grade down -make some friends for networking...

i wouldn't. unless explicitly told to do so by the BON, no thanks. part of background checks at facilities is to make sure your license is in good standing. once they look for it, theyll find it. and when they ask you about it, answer honestly. til t...

is ordering fluids in the er just a routine standard of care for docs or something? almost every patient we see docs order a liter of fluid right off the bat, regardless of any vitals that might indicate a need for it. if an IVP med is ordered, there...

Makes the most sense but seems entirely too convenient.

the only constants are my steth around my neck, and maybe a couple pens on my scrub top. everything else was either snuck in by a ninja, leftover from last shift, and 25% intentional

dunno much about OR but ER/ICU can be broken down by personality type, since they are both highly specialized but almost polar opposites. if you find yourself : wanting new assignments on an hour by hour basis/shift by shift basis being a jack of all...

are you looking to work on the floor? if not, what difference does it make? and if you are, you will have several weeks of training before youre actually set loose the floor, so there isn't all that much to be concerned with. itll essentially be lik...

if he said to you to pick between him and nursing school which would you choose? I imagine you'd pick nursing school. which means at this point, nursing school is the only thing that deserves your time, effort, and undivided attention.

molecular weight of droplet-borne diseases causes them to not be spread very far at all. the masks are there as a safeguard because the size generally cant pass through the mask to transfer the pathogen. unless you rub your face all over your scrubs,...

blood pressures are dynamic, they never stay exactly the same. a good example of this is if you've ever seen a CPV monitor or ART line put in. you'll see it change second by second. the same goes for if you're switching arms. however if you're consi...