Do you work in a hospital? Working conditions for nurses are pretty bad with high patient loads, in a lot of places. Not to mention the responsibility, the liability and the stress that goes along...
Yeah, I know!!!! That's the whole point of wearing a wig! She wears the wig until the roots grow out and her hair is all the same color once she cuts off the dyed
I don't know. Who came up with that idea in the first place? JCAHO? Personally, I don't think nurses should have to be responsible for that. I do not prescribe medications so why should it be my...
I don't like anything, meetings, evaluations, anything on my on duty time because you really can't get away to go, relief does not exist. I would rather schedule my eval for when I'm not on duty...
I am not assuming anything. To my knowledge, it cannot be given IV. I was asking the poster what her source was since she stated that she gives it IV all the
Any literature I have seen regarding Vistaril indicates "not to be given IV". Can you give your sources indicating that it can be given IV, since you say that you give it that way
They sell Trigger (spelled correctly) at Hancock Fabrics and sometimes at Walmart. I use it for culottes and it can't be seen through. I haven't looked for it in white though, but have used it in...
I would be more concerned about the time involved than the money. How long is it going to take you to drive that 20 miles? Are you going to be in rush hour traffic so that it takes you forever to...
Use an incident report form and write up, will it is fresh in your mind, what he said and what you said, as well as what was going on in the ER at the time, and turn it in. In my opinion he was...
Okay, so the patient should have been accompanied by a licensed person, but under the circumstances what could a licensed person have done either? It sounds like the best thing would have been to call...
Seems like there's at least one like that on every floor where I go. I don't know how the hospital lets them get away with it either, but they do, there are a lot of nasty witches among the core...
Mulan replied to grannynurse FNP student's topic in General Nursing
Are you a Family Nurse Practitioner student? Is that what your name refers to? When do you graduate from your program? What exactly is Medicare hoping to gain or learn from this
I agree, check with your state board. My state just changed requirements, it used to be a minimum number of hours worked to renew, now it is hours worked or contact hours. My state requires 30...
How old was the patient? Maybe it was just his/her time to go, regardless of what was done or wasn't done. Use it as a learning experience. (What should I have done? What will I do next time?) Good...