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I am glad that he heard our displeasure regarding his comment. I'm sure that he upset other groups of people on a regular bases. It makes me glad that he acknowledged us on air by admitting his error, whether staged or not. I would have loved to s...

DANG!!! I don't have time to prechart. I'm lucky to get charting done w/i the 2 hr time frame my facility requires.. it has a computer system that allows us to change times, but, the permenent record shows the actual time and the time you changed i...

I agree w/ mattsmom81

Here is the part that makes me SICK..... exactally what job duty am I relieved of or will the Dr. perform for me if I do play "footsie". People are people. Doc's, pilots, restaruant mgrs etc. male and female flirt and have sex w/ co-workers. Becau...

I am sure that poster was speaking "tongue in cheek"

I would refuse to dose anyone w/ ativan 40 mg. (???). That doesn't make sense. I have detoxed may pt and have never heard of dosage like that. Also never have heard of Haldol use for withdraw. Sounds like an Internist's experiment. Would have t...

This is closer it stupid than funny but...while discussing discharge orders w/ an ortho. Dr. on the phone, I explained that a pt. pain was uncontrolled by 2 meds on a triplicate that he had prewritten...he then asked me to just "write in dilaudid" so...

My advice...follow protocal it does very. Use the pharmacy as a resouce as needed. Check and recheck your calculation as well as those before you. LOOK at your labs!!! PT/INR..monitor other anticoags..asa, coumadin dose daily, plavix...see the BIG ...

Patients...God love 'em...LOLOLOL

in tx u can go to the bne web site enter your data and see when a license is assigned. It saves time and costs nothing.

"I'll check on that for you"..usually stated when I already know the answer amd know that it's not what the pt/family wants to hear. Sometimes this has bought me enough time to have someone else do the dirty deed of addressing the issue of better ye...

I know that the squeaky wheelis not always supported or welcomed. I fought w/ the whole Dallas County Med. Dept. as a new nurse because they didn't mesh-up to what I had been taught. I was a difficult time in my career. But, I was right to mainta...

This is my theory regarding call lights..... Call lites should be programmed w/ a q min lockout, just like a PCA. If you are well enough to push a button more than the programmed lockout time, you will have to get out of bed and do what ever it is y...

No, you don't. I read the previous post and noticed that it kinda went into left field. The new angio-cath. shows a back flash w/ u access the vein, @ that point, I do use a pig-tail attached to a 3cc syringe w/ 2 cc NS flushed into it. Don't leav...

You are the type of nurse mentioned regarding the "I feel closer/better and more intuned to my pt and their needs." blah, blah, blah. Where is is north of He@@

This thread is soo great. I want to respond to weebizit about the acct. who gave her a death look after telling her that , instead of becoming an acct. she wished she'd been a nurse. How funny was the way she responded to you, after you said "that ...

I know that we all see the humor in the foley statement and I have heard it actually used by more than one nurse. I see it as a hostile threat and wonder if it is exactually "theraputic". In a way it's like (to me) saying to a child "if you do such...

OMG I know that it is after the fact, I had no idea that it effected people who didn't work there. I am the nurse that first called the FW star telegram. There were BIG indicators that the end was close and NOBODY was telling us anything. Within ...

#1 (from my psych days) where there is a irratating behavior there's a med and you begin your shift by looking over thier PRN meds #2 call lites like PCA's should have a lock-out and part B to that, a pt who can push thier call lite more than once e...

your paper is probably written and being graded by now. but, fyi. Nephro nurses usually initate and monitor dialysis. They access ready ports or fistulas, set the pull on the machine and monitor x3 hrs. BORING!!!! Cardiac nurses are specialized i...

sharann--naughty nurse thing???? HUH??? are u for or against

I loved what you had to say. MY soapbox began the day in nursing school that my instructor informed all of us that we became nurse because WE care about helping other people and continued with you know that we are not here for the "money". First of...

what you are questioning is right to question. This was probably not life threatening, but, could have been better. Starting w/ a butterfly is a way of establishing a saline/heparin lock. The tubing should have been primed w/ solution prior to inf...

Relax. I'm sure that you've passed. Learn to believe in yourself!!!

my piont exactally!!! why would insurance want to pay $10 for a family tray?? NURSES LOOK AT THE BIG PICTURE!!!! just because your pt recieves pain med. do we give the family tylenol. I have been at a hospital that was independant and closed d/t b...