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rita359

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  1. Med-error & down n the dumps

    rita359 replied to Advocate1's topic in General Nursing

    Almost any insurance company can direct you to liability insurance but I would check with the local or state nurses assosciation. Best to get some company that may actually have a lot of experience...

  2. Med-error & down n the dumps

    rita359 replied to Advocate1's topic in General Nursing

    And just another reminder of why we all should carry our own liability insurance. Considering how the hospital is treating you and others who posted and lost their jobs over something like this, you...

  3. Med-error & down n the dumps

    rita359 replied to Advocate1's topic in General Nursing

    I think a good part of the hospitals reaction is because of the reaction of the family. Yes, you made a mistake. Don't know what meds the wrong patient got but apparently nothing to earth shaking....

  4. inside the mind of a nurse.....

    rita359 replied to ERRN92's topic in General Nursing

    Not eating before driving has crossed my mind more than once. Looking at ankles for edema too. Pass pedestrians who are morbidly obese and hope when they come to my hospital they can still move...

  5. IV Antibiotics

    rita359 replied to TelyRN's topic in General Nursing

    I may be wrong but I think the reason for protonix etc doesn't have much to do with antibiotics and more with the stress caused by hospitalization and stress possibly causing ulcers and gi

  6. Badly needed advice..........

    rita359 replied to MoriahRoseRN's topic in General Nursing

    You also have to decide what clinical skills you want to keep up to date on and what kind of emergencies you are talking about. Is it cardiac arrest you are talking about. Then take cpr courses at...

  7. Catheter beyond comfort measure?

    rita359 replied to cowboy_carl's topic in General Nursing

    Individualize care. If all that turning, buffing, fluffing causes agony for the patient it is nursing care but not necessarily good for that

  8. Catheter beyond comfort measure?

    rita359 replied to cowboy_carl's topic in General Nursing

    In certain patients a fc would be a comfort measure. Patients in pain when turned would not be turned to be changed. Patients would not lie in urine soaked linen until someone found out they were...

  9. Having an upper GI done on Friday

    rita359 replied to lpnstudentin2010's topic in General Nursing

    Think you must be mistaken. UGI is a simple xray where you swallow barium and they do xray of esophogus and stomach. A follow through is where they continue doing xrays at intervals as the barium...

  10. What would u do?

    rita359 replied to goodgirl4u50's topic in General Nursing

    There are just some places you HAVE to be. Daughter should not be left alone in labor. I tell my husband all the time some things only happen once. If you think you should be there then you should....

  11. Lipid lowering success stories

    rita359 replied to nurseaboveboard's topic in General Nursing

    Diet and exercise did not do it for me. Numbers were not too much out of whack. Added niacin. Numbers are all wnl now. Refernence Goodman and Gillman's The Pharmacological Basis of

  12. Nurses have a 'need to know' outcomes!!!

    rita359 replied to FireStarterRN's topic in General Nursing

    As a nurse, I want to know if the patient I bothered the doctor endlessly about until he sent him or her to ICU actually had something bad wrong with them or I was way off the mark. And if I was...

  13. Do you enjoy nursing?

    rita359 replied to mikethern's topic in General Nursing

    Nearly out of nursing school 40 years and nursing is my identity. Some days satisfaction is 4. Most days it is 8 or

  14. Hit 'Enter' Key to make Paragraphs! (Then I can read your allnurses posts!)

    rita359 replied to FireStarterRN's topic in General Nursing

    For me the paragraph thing has been that I did not know how to make the paragraphs. When I type it for the message I make paragraphs. When I enter the paragraphs were never there. Sometimes it is...

  15. Nurses not responding fast enough-VENT

    rita359 replied to pirap's topic in General Nursing

    Unfortunately, for some people there is no difference between a request and a demand. It goes with the times and is getting worse all the time. I tell people my husband would be happy if his...

  16. orientationg new nurse

    rita359 replied to Ms.RN's topic in General Nursing

    Don't know how far along you are in orientation. There is a whole lot more to caring for a patient than passing meds. One of those things is getting comfortable with admitting patients to your level...

  17. DNR bracelet with DNR written on it. HIPAA???

    rita359 replied to FireStarterRN's topic in HIPAA Challenges

    We train lay people to do CPR. Some people have done CPR in emergency situations by having watched medical shows were CPR was performed and been successful. You can be "john q public" and be...

  18. Heroic measures on a full DNR pt?

    rita359 replied to jbp0529's topic in General Nursing

    DNR is for when heartbeat and respiration stop. If the patient has not progressed to that point then you still treat. Give whatever is ordered until then. If patients and families knew we were...

  19. DNR bracelet with DNR written on it. HIPAA???

    rita359 replied to FireStarterRN's topic in HIPAA Challenges

    What you are intending to do is communicate to health care workers that the patient is a DNR. Its all well and good if DNR is not written of the band and the patient codes on your unit. What if they...

  20. Spinoff : What We Do, What We Used to Do

    rita359 replied to NursingAgainstdaOdds's topic in General Nursing

    Just my thoughts: 1. metal bedpans and water pitchers. Took water pitchers to dietary qam to put through dishwasher then redistributed. Had hopper room with some device to put bedpans in to...

  21. Spinoff : What We Do, What We Used to Do

    rita359 replied to NursingAgainstdaOdds's topic in General Nursing

    It wasn't a transition. As they say "necessity is the mother of invention". HIV was the mother of this invention. It was my first reading about HIV and I began demanding gloves for giving shots and...

  22. nursing caps

    rita359 replied to biker nurse's topic in General Nursing

    Graduated in 1968. Wore a cap for many years. Liked being able to tell where nurses went to school by the caps they wore. Didn't mind wearing them. Don't mind not wearing them. Don't understand...

  23. MORPHINE and Dying Patients

    rita359 replied to constantlylearning's topic in General Nursing

    So, hospice has gotten your patients pain under control and you don't want to give their dose of pain med because you don't think they "look like" they are in pain? Remember that your not giving...

  24. Patients Treat Nurses Like Garbage!

    rita359 replied to lisa41rn's topic in General Nursing

    Oh yes, it has changed a lot over the years!!! I can't say exactly when it changed but patients now are a lot more demanding than they used to be. Young patients who have surgery don't think they...

  25. Calling out Sick on a Holiday

    rita359 replied to pirap's topic in General Nursing

    Employee health says you can't work until Friday, you are home free. It is those people who get in the habit of calling in sick multiple holidays or weekends who get looked down upon by managers and...