heron ASN, RN

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    To Suction or Not To Suction, End of Life & Hospice Patients

    heron replied to NickICU-RN's topic in General Nursing

    And when all else fails, there's always atropine, scopolamine and
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    Miserable nurses

    heron replied to FutureNurse0201's topic in General Nursing

    Now you know how your ex-boyfriend
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    Gloves required for ALL oral meds.

    heron replied to Leonardos's topic in Patient Medications

    Not believing it ... have you seen the actual standard in
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    How to document in the ward register?

    heron replied to John 2018's topic in Australia, New Zealand

    My mistake - reading too
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    How to document in the ward register?

    heron replied to John 2018's topic in Australia, New Zealand

    Oxycodone and oxycontin are not the same. The first is immediate release and short acting ( 3 - 6 hr.) and may be prescribed prn or scheduled. The second is an extended release version (8 - 12 hours)...
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    School Shootings

    heron replied to OldDude's topic in General Nursing

    This country was founded by leaders sprung directly from centuries of religious warfare and irrational dogmatism in Europe. That's why they specifically provided for freedom of religion in our...
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    Essential oils in hospitals

    heron replied to SarahRN32514's topic in General Nursing

    Didn't we just have a thread about
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    A Nurses Duty to act

    heron replied to Mellissa81's topic in General Nursing

    No, but failure to rescue or otherwise failing to carry out a legal duty is a valid argument. A claim against a home-owner's insurance becomes much more lucrative if you can throw in professional...
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    A Nurses Duty to act

    heron replied to Mellissa81's topic in General Nursing

    Because it's fun to speculate. Wouldn't be the first time someone came hunting for legal
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    A Nurses Duty to act

    heron replied to Mellissa81's topic in General Nursing

    My purely intuitive hit is that the OP is trolling for possible grounds to up the ante in a lawsuit against a home-owner's
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    Universal Deathcare.

    heron replied to Kyrshamarks's topic in General Nursing

    There's nothing magical about parenthood that renders a person competent to raise a healthy child. When parental decisions veer into abuse, regardless of intentions, they need to be checked. In this...
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    Universal Deathcare.

    heron replied to Kyrshamarks's topic in General Nursing

    Actually, the OP is a long-time member whom I remember from way back - this post is consistent with his stated political views since 2004 when I joined AN. Wrong-headed, in my view, but sincerely...
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    brittle diabetic pt

    heron replied to mtam_01's topic in General Nursing

    OP stated in her second post that the resident is on dialysis and later referred to an av
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    brittle diabetic pt

    heron replied to mtam_01's topic in General Nursing

    Or a hospice consult. OP, your resident is being kept alive artificially by means of hemodialysis. I suspect your resident is well aware of this. The dietary restrictions involved in that, on top of...
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    need help with catheter insertion on a contracted alert patient

    heron replied to hannaboo's topic in General Nursing

    Have you tried a posterior approach with the pt in a side-lying position? I find that it works quite well with my elderly ladies with limited ROM in their hips or large abdomens that make it hard for...
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    The pain scale has been harmful

    heron replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    IOW suck it up, buttercup? Sorry, but there's nothing heroic about suffering in silence ... that demand has more to do with making us comfortable instead of our patients. Swinging the pendulum back to...
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    Admitting More ICU Patients than Hospital is Licensed To Take

    heron replied to J Friday's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    Are all these admissions really ICU-appropriate? If not, it sounds like a riff on the old up-coding scam. Like a hospice admitting a pt to the highest level of care - GIP - to get maximum...
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    Family Member Watching Pro-terror/ Anti-America/ Anti-Semitic video

    heron replied to sugarmagnolia3's topic in General Nursing

    OP, i don't think you understood my point. The issue is not one of free speech. Whether the video is protected speech or not is irrelevant. What disturbs me is that you want a person investigated...
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    I need an experts opinions please !!

    heron replied to Rn 1979's topic in General Nursing

    Not believing it, either. An icu manager and multiple icu staff gathering in the nurses station specifically and only to mock the OPs accent?
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    medical guarded unit

    heron replied to Nursingbsn2b91's topic in General Nursing

    Check out the corrections nursing forum. The prison unit in my old hospital was more like a prison infirmary than a hospital unit, except for the acuity of the patients. Learn to work with corrections...
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    Family Member Watching Pro-terror/ Anti-America/ Anti-Semitic video

    heron replied to sugarmagnolia3's topic in General Nursing

    And what scares me is that so many are advocating thought control. What part of "1984" did we not understand? The idea of sicccing law enforcement on someone for what they're thinking makes my blood...
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    Dangers of teaching kids they can be boys or girls

    heron replied to nursingaround1's topic in General Nursing

    Oh, for heaven's sake! This has reached the level of a strawman. NO ONE HERE has made that claim and the OP has failed to produce a credible example of any reputable scientist doing so,
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    Dangers of teaching kids they can be boys or girls

    heron replied to nursingaround1's topic in General Nursing

    And typing out the name of the professor and the url is beyond you? Nope, still don't bellieve
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    Dangers of teaching kids they can be boys or girls

    heron replied to nursingaround1's topic in General Nursing

    Not offended at all. The OP, however, did not seem willing to acknowledge even the possibility that gender might be something other than genetically determined and exclusively binary. As i implied in...
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    Dangers of teaching kids they can be boys or girls

    heron replied to nursingaround1's topic in General Nursing

    Yes, I'm serious ... I want to know just who is claiming that there is no biological gender. Apparently, they don't exist, since you don't seem to be able name or quote