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Not sure if this is the right area for this...I'm wondering about how to get into factory nursing. I have looked up several factories online here in Michigan and I can't seem to find any listings at all on any of the websites that they hire nurses. H...

There's psychological addiction then there's physical, I never said a person would need to detox from phenergan, but that doesn't mean it can't be abused or psychologically addictive, and yes our docs have said it can be that's why they order us to w...

Disagree ... I've taken phenergan and it made me feel like I was on Vicodin for a couple hours before it knocked me out. It's not a scheduled med but its naive of you to think people don't abuse phenergan lol. I recently cared for a patient who admit...

I'm just wondering why someone's BAC would continue to go up and up and up upon recheck even 5 hours after admission onto the unit. The RN I'm working with says that with it being 5 hours since admit the BAC should not still be going up.

Maybe they just had one last "binge" right before coming in and that's why it kept going up after admit.

Wow... Interesting

The person was an unreliable source on when they last drank which tells me probably right before they came in they might have had some.

I will I promise :)

I have not solved the riddle lol maybe ill pick the dr.s brain a bit

3 16oz glasses

Came in at .147 next check .159 after five hours it was a .195- had patient drink a lot of water and it came down to .107 after 3 glasses of water. Does dehydration play a role in it?

Ok. Thanks for the response!

Possible but we searched the patient and they cane in with no belongings.

Newer* lol and no problem. My unit is in the middle of transitioning into doing TMS treatments. You should research it, pretty interesting!

Transcranial magnetic stimulation It's a less invasive new were approved treatment

Thank you :)

Has anyone worked a PACU setting in ECT and then went to a medical hospital and done PACU nursing? Do you think it's harder in a medical hospital versus PACU in an ECT clinic? Would I adjust well? Thanks for the input.

Thank you for your reply! I might do that! Sorry I have been away for awhile and haven't responded til now.

My hospital recently did a study of ECT in dementia patients with behavioral issues and we had great success in alleviating behavioral issues. We also treat behavioral issues in patients who are DD or mentally challenged with mood disorders and its h...

I have seen it work miracles for my patients! It really is more effective than meds but politics comes into play and insurance companies won't pay unless you've had several failed med trials usually. I believe my boss said ECT as first line of treatm...

I set up treatment room for the doctors, reconstitute the Brevital, recover patients, assess, the only difference is I have to have the RN discharge and I can't do IV meds. In Detox I'm the med nurse, assess assist in admissions and charting with the...

Yes, I work full time in ECT in recovery, and also on call in Detox.

Accidentally cut off my post mid way. Anyways it would be no better than how they did it years ago when they used it to punish people "out of their bad behavior."

I'm an ECT nurse as well, and yes it's done under general anesthesia with a muscle relaxant. If they didn't it would be torture

First of all, phenergan can and is abused. I've taken it, it can and with a lot of people myself included give you a high, not to mention knock you out cold. Out of the list of meds the OP mentioned the only one I would even be concerned about evalua...