medsurgrn00

The only thing that really comes to mind is a critical care nurse giving Lomotil IV to a patient. Not orally, but IV. Makes you wonder what she thought about how thick it was, and how she got it to go through the line. Patient ended up okay.

AS A MEDSURG NURSE I CAN TELL YOU. IT IS NOT AN EASY FLOOR TO WORK. NO MONITERS TO TELL YOU WHEN YOUR PATIENT IS GOING BAD. 7-8 PATIENTS TO A NURSE. VERY SICK PATIENTS WHO AT TIMES DO NEED MORE MONITERING BUT THERE ARE NOT ENOUGH MONITERS TO GO AROUND. JUST YESTERDAY I SENT TWO PATIENTS OUT. ONE TO ICU, ONE TO CCU. BOTH WENT BAD IN A MATTER OF MINUTES, NOT HOURS. IF NOT FOR DILIGENT ROUNDS BY ASSISTANTS AND RNS THESE MAY HAVE BEEN MISSED. THANK GOD FOR A SLOW NIGHT. IF IT HAD HAPPENED THE NIGHT BEFORE WHERE WE GOT 7 ADMITS IN A 4 HOUR PERID WHO KNOWS WHAT MIGHT HAVE HAPPENED.

WHAT PART OF KENTUCKY ARE YOU FROM . I LIVE THERE TOO. JUST WANTING TO KNOW WHAT HOSPITAL TO AVOID!! Please send me a private message (PM) with the information. Thanks!

When I Was Just Out Of Nursing School I Worked On A Busy Med Surg Floor. (still Do) One Night We Heard A Phone Drop But When We Went Looking No One Had Dropped There Phone. We Let It Go But Then We Went Looking For Our I/o Book, Where We Chart All Our Intake And Output, It Was Gone. We Looked All Over Our Station But It Was Gone. As We Were Looking I Looked In One Of The Patients Room And Saw A Figure Sitting In A Chair At The End Of The Patient's Bed. The Patient Had Been Talking About His Brother That Night. I Believe His Brother Had Come To See Him Because The Patient Died A Few Nights Later. Our I/o Book Returned After The Figure Had Left The Room. Freaky!!