Chris27229

Absolutely not, way too much stress and responsiblity for that kind of pay. My son is a senior in high school. He works at a local garage performing oil changes and inspection stickers, makes $10.00/hr. He loves his job, no stress, and his boss treats them to lunch every Saturday.

Many nurses where I work have been giving morphine sulfate IV undiluted using the rule of pushing 1mg/minute, so 2 mg would be given over 2 mins. If giving above 2mg always dilute in 5ml of NS so that it isn't inadvertly given it too fast. I was orienting a new grad the other day and we looked this up in a drug book which recommended always diluting in 5ml of ns and giving it over 4-5mins, for dose ranges of 15mg or less. How are you giving morphine IV for pain control?

Yesterday a physician came to the med-surg floor and use silver nitrate and 4% cocaine to cauterize and pack a pt's nare to control a nose bleed. Can anyone tell me what the silver nitrate and cocaine do, how do they stop the bleeding. I was quite surprised about the cocaine. I was wondering if my pt was going to get high from cocaine, but she did not. I wanted to ask the physician these question, but did not want to look stupid. This procedure is usually done in the ER Chris:lol2:

The last hospital that I worked at about 8 yrears ago was not paying nurses any overtime unless the manager approved the over time. Some one reported the hospital to the labor board. The labor board came to the hopital and actually interviewed nurses that were working that day. After this everyone got paid for the actual hours that they worked no mater what.