psu_213 BSN, RN

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    What Do Nurses Want?

    psu_213 replied to medihacks907's topic in General Nursing

    Call me old fashioned, but I would with a textbook. Phone apps can be helpful too. I've "played" CEN Jeopardy! at work, I had a board game that had, supposedly, NCLEX-style questions. Quite frankly,...
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    Manager said something covertly racist

    psu_213 replied to sugarmagnolia3's topic in General Nursing

    I would speak directly to the person who said it, but I would not look at it as "confronting" her. More like "I know you were just trying to make a joke, but I have several friends who are Hispanic,...
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    Accepting verbal orders from another nurse?

    psu_213 replied to amberrenae, RN's topic in General Nursing

    I have never heard it for a telephone order either. Must be a regional/hospital thing. I have been the 2nd person on a line to witness an over the phone consent. but I have never had to have a...
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    Accepting verbal orders from another nurse?

    psu_213 replied to amberrenae, RN's topic in General Nursing

    I have never heard of the 2 nurse rule... I have worked in a community hospital where there is a 0% chance that a physician is going to go to his/her computer at home during the middle of the night...
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    Do nurses get away with nurse brutality

    psu_213 replied to DesiDani's topic in General Nursing

    Yes, if a patient is being violent, I want an armed hospital police officer there. No questions asked. Not saying the patient deserves to be shot--I sincerely hope it does not reach that, and it...
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    Do nurses get away with nurse brutality

    psu_213 replied to DesiDani's topic in General Nursing

    I just wish I had BTDT's restraint (no pun
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    Do nurses get away with nurse brutality

    psu_213 replied to DesiDani's topic in General Nursing

    And I have seen family members, that although tearful, totally understand why their loved one is in restraints. Very, very few people like restraining a pt, but most nurses (and families) understand...
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    Do nurses get away with nurse brutality

    psu_213 replied to DesiDani's topic in General Nursing

    And I'm grateful that they are armed. If a guard shoots someone, it is a tragedy, and it would be a very interesting and spirited debate about whether it was justified; but weren't we talking about...
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    Preceptee medication error

    psu_213 replied to Emmers4's topic in General Nursing

    We select the med/dose/volume--all the different options come at once; for example "Zosyn 4.5 g/100 mL" would be one of the choices. Then the nurse must program the rate (or the length of the...
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    Do nurses get away with nurse brutality

    psu_213 replied to DesiDani's topic in General Nursing

    I totally read this as "straining poop through a colander I case the kidney stone came out the wrong place.
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    Do nurses get away with nurse brutality

    psu_213 replied to DesiDani's topic in General Nursing

    I agree, but I have had someone open a door while we were inserting a Foley, putting in a NG, etc., and then "oh wait, my mom's in the room next door.
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    Do nurses get away with nurse brutality

    psu_213 replied to DesiDani's topic in General Nursing

    I don't want to get onto a debate on police brutality...that is way beyond the scope of AN. Specifically, solely on the issue of nursing interventions...who cares what a neighboring patient perceives?...
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    Please Help! Abandonment and Retro Pay

    psu_213 replied to YellowBirdz's topic in General Nursing

    This can be a lesson for others--unless it is in writing, it is meaningless. I don't know if her claim of "abandonment" is just to intimate you into not fighting for the retro pay, but, since it was...
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    Sepsis protocols causing a future superbug??

    psu_213 replied to Alexx_xox's topic in General Nursing

    My biggest issue is not with treating sepsis or suspected sepsis. I have a problem with "throwing" ABX at a patient with no chance of any meaningful recovery, and just turning those persons into a...
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    If an IM injection goes subcutaneous what can happen?

    psu_213 replied to MaryRN123's topic in General Nursing

    What do you mean by "in but not all the in?" Was she hitting bone? Horrible feeling when you are giving the injection to hit the bone, pt doesn't flinch
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    Unfair Fundamentals Clinical Testing?

    psu_213 replied to jbernardo's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    If they have enough time to come on here and act like fools (which it sounds like they do plenty of that on their own site....), then they are obviously selling themselves short by not doing something...
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    Medication administration confusion???

    psu_213 replied to Mike DBD's topic in General Nursing

    I'm asking this because I don't know, not because I'm trying to be argumentative: is this for free standing dialysis clinics, or does the gowning, change gowning, etc. apply to inpatient, hospital...
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    Unfair Fundamentals Clinical Testing?

    psu_213 replied to jbernardo's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    I know it seems like people are beating up on you, so I'm not going to repeat what has been said, but I needed to add this.... When I was in school and we were learning about med administration, one...
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    Medication administration confusion???

    psu_213 replied to Mike DBD's topic in General Nursing

    I see both sides of this. On one hand we trust coworkers. I don't go back and recheck all the normal BPs that a tech got. I trust that the antibiotic that was mixed in the pharmacy was the correct...
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    Patient complaint to charge: pt refused test but states that it was done?

    psu_213 replied to newnurse2014's topic in General Nursing

    I'm sure there was an instance I should have charted more details on a patient refusal, but did not because I did not have enough time. I don't remember ever getting in trouble for it, but I'm sure,...
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    Writing doctors orders without an actual doctors order

    psu_213 replied to Toadroad's topic in Critical Care

    I can understand ABGs and chest X-rays. I can't imagine a situation where that would come back to bite the nurse. Meds though? What if a patient has an adverse reaction to the Haldol (amio, etc.)?...
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    New to ED, Suggestions on Supplies

    psu_213 replied to Nurse-please's topic in Emergency

    What I would do--take a pair of hemostats, put them "through" the center of a roll of tape. Attach the hemostats to my scrub top. Use the roll of tape as a holster for my trauma
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    Charge Nurses Who Micromanage

    psu_213 replied to YumCookies's topic in General Nursing

    I totally agree with the idea of not taking it personally. The vast majority of float whom I have worked with have been great. OTOH, there have been a few disasters. As a charge, I would want to...
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    Is the charge nurse the boss of unit secretary?

    psu_213 replied to Ajean1203's topic in General Nursing

    There is a very thin line with unit secretaries (any staff, really). Secretaries who are short of that line roll their eyes and huff when even asked to do the most basic of tasks that are in their...
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    Wearing gloves with HIV positive patients

    psu_213 replied to Leekri's topic in General Nursing

    I used the term ignorant. It was not name calling, it was not judgemental--it was a statement of fact. I freely admit that I am ignorant (i.e., lacking knowledge) certain topics. I would hope that,...