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  1. Unlicensed personnel calling in prescriptions?!

    bassbird posted a topic in Patient Safety Issues

    My sister is a nurse in Indiana and the story she related to me makes me mad. Is this legal? I know I have seen posts about secretaries and others triaging phone calls but I haven't heard anyone say...

  2. pre-ICU experience

    bassbird replied to JennyMacRN2B's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    Hi Jenny Good luck in your career. It's great to have goals established. I have been a nurse for 2 years now. I started on a cardiac stepdown unit. Here I have learned to read monitors, hang drips,...

  3. ADN to BSN

    bassbird replied to ratchet41's topic in General Nursing

    I just started working on my BSN through Regis University in Denver. It is an online format which works well with my schedule. I am a second career RN who already has a B.A., but went for the ADN...

  4. 2 science/lab classes in one semester?

    bassbird replied to marci3335's topic in General Students

    I actually took 3 classes with labs when I went back to school, after being out for 19 years. I took Anatomy, Cell biology and Chemistry. I did work but I do not have kids! One of my classmates,...

  5. Prescriptions

    bassbird replied to sanoca's topic in General Nursing

    It probably depends on your state Pharmacy rules. As a Pharmacy technician in MN we are not allowed to take new prescriptions over the phone. We are allowed to call doctor's offices on refills but...

  6. NCLEX and calculators

    bassbird posted a topic in General Nursing

    Can anyone tell me if they are allowing the use of calculators on the NCLEX? It would seem to make sense. If you don't know how to set up the problem in the first place a calculator would do you no...

  7. NCLEX and calculators

    bassbird replied to bassbird's topic in General Nursing

    Thanks, that's good to know. The reason I ask is that my clinical instructor for Peds wanted to let us use calculators for our math test, but the rest of the faculty said it wasn't allowed because...

  8. Do you mix your own IV's?

    bassbird replied to deespoohbear's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    My experience is on the other end, since I am a pharmacy tech working my way through nursing school. At most hospitals it is the tech who makes the IV's. In fact, I enter the order into the...

  9. opened multidose vials- when to discard??

    bassbird replied to Smitty,RN's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    I asked our Pharm D to clarify the expiration situation. She said that single dose vials must be used within 12 hours after entering if left at room temp and within 24 hours if kept in the fridge....

  10. opened multidose vials- when to discard??

    bassbird replied to Smitty,RN's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    I'm a pharmacy tech and asked one of the pharmacists that very question last week. I was surprised when she told me that the policy is the manufacturers exp. date. I always label when the vial was...