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I am a RN who recently donated through Be The Match registry, I have been on the registry for 5yrs and never got a call until this past dec. I was a perfect match for a middle-aged lady suffering from AML in Argentina. The recipients dr wanted per...

What? 48$/hr, that's exactly double my pay per hr, man I need to move to your hospital

Just try to think of the bigger picture, the patient came to the hospital y? What are we currently doing for him? What's the overall plan for this patient (i.e CHF exacerbation plan to continue IV LASIK until can tolerate PO then discharge to skilled...

Continuous fluids that should go through a central line are TPN, I can think of others that are intermittent only but need to go in centrally such as +20meq of potassium and certain chemos are best through centrals

If the NGT is set to suction and used for decompression then I would assume it would be more for the patient's comfort/palliation

I have been on the bone marrow registry for many years now and never got a call until this past dec, I happened to be at work on that day and was excited to share the news that I was a 'potential' match for a stranger w/ cancer so I went in to my man...

MAC-Donalds instead of MIC-Donalds

I graduated from Lonestar Cy-fair in Dec 2011 and already had a job 1mo before graduation at Methodist willowbrook hospital. I already have a bachelor's degree in something else in addition to my ADN

Sorry to offend anyone but my beef w/ this whole issue is that I am seeing more and more pts who pick and choose when they want to be treated like pts and when they want to be 'paying customers who feel its ok to be waited on 24/7, I understand contr...

Maybe that 'Big Mouth' nurse you were referring to at the nurses station was trying her best to keep herself awake bc she not only works nights but has 2 small children she must 'watch' during the day when she should be sleeping, and IMO I'd much pre...

At my hospital we are not allowed to bring family members if the hospital goes on lockdown for a hurricane. We get to choose whether or not we are on the 'ride out' team (meaning we stay 24/7 at hospital from the moment we start lockdown until the m...

My hospital is 'sooo' into this customer service BS, they have given us scripts to follow when doing 'bedside report' we are supposed to have things ready for pts when they come up to our floor from wherever (ER, OBs, etc) like fresh ice water, the t...

At my hospital nurses are assigned empty rooms all the time...I work med-surg and pt. ratio is typically 1-4, our pt. assignment goes by acuity/location (room #) and skills/talents of each nurse. We do rounding with administration 1-2 per shift to u...

One of our respiratory techs at my hospital was telling me a story the other day about a trach pt. who was AAOx3 and during a suctioning session, the pt. coughed (which is usally to be expected) but this particular guy had a tendency to have copious ...

I am still pretty new myself but one thing I learned last night was to be very cautious when holding onto a med (especially a narcotic) when it should be wasted at the time you drew it up and figured out you weren't going to give it d/t pt. condition...

I am just kind of curious...do you know how exactly this patient contracted this disease?

To give you all an update: the patient died at shift change a day after she was transferred to our floor, I was pleased to learn that the night nurse on the Sat. night shift gave the meds as prescribed. There are so many misconceptions about hospice...

So I work on a med-surg floor with specilization in oncology and are the floor for our contract hospice patients. I picked up an extra day shift this past weekend and at 1745 I get report from our IMU for a patient who is a DNR, comfort care only, p...

I was prescribed Adderral for the same issues when I got my job almost 6mo ago. I had to take a urine drug test as a part of routine screening and was forewarned that I would most likely test positive for amphetamines. I was not surprised when I go...