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  1. Pressing Charges Against a Patient

    missjustice posted a topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I'm a nursing student working on a medical telemetry floor. We currently have a patient who two staff members are pressing charges on for assault (he has AIDS and bit one, and the other he punched in...

  2. Can I call a recruiter back a month later?

    missjustice posted a topic in Job Search, Interview, Resume

    TL;DR- Recruiters from hospital A call me two days after I tell hospital B I'll take the job they offer me. I change my mind because hospital B is acting kind of shady. Can I call hospital A back now,...

  3. Lasix and Renal Failure

    missjustice replied to missjustice's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    Thanks for the answers everyone. His BUN and creat were okay-ish, but he'd been getting dialysis for nearly a year. Apparently he'd been taking Lasix at home, and the nurse thought that his primary...

  4. Lasix and Renal Failure

    missjustice posted a topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    So I had an ESRD patient who was getting dialysis three times a week, and was oliguric at baseline (he said he peed small amounts maybe two or three times a month). He also had hypertension, and he...

  5. Correcting INR

    missjustice posted a topic in General Nursing

    This is probably a dumb nursing student question, but here goes. I heard a doctor ordering FFP today say "Correct her to 50,000." I know FFP is for clotting factors, and I'm assuming that she was...

  6. Correcting INR

    missjustice replied to missjustice's topic in General Nursing

    No, it was definitely FFP. She said something along the lines of 'We need to correct her to 50,000, so she'll be getting a lot of plasma today.' But the nurse on the floor I asked said the same thing...

  7. Asking a patient if they're mentally retarded?

    missjustice posted a topic in General Nursing

    I know nurses have to ask embarrassing or very personal questions sometimes, but is there a polite way of asking a patient if they're mentally retarded? One of the techs on my floor told me today that...

  8. Leaving AMA

    missjustice posted a topic in General Nursing

    If you have a patient who wants to leave AMA, how do you usually handle it? I'm a nursing student who's been working as an extern at a big hospital in Philadelphia for a little over a year now. I've...