One mid 50s woman after a poly pharm od in 4 points called me literally any word she could come up with. She called me a d**k slayer, which I found pretty impressive actually. The one well meaning...
I learned that etoh withdrawal is terrible. I only remember learning about the first few days, ativan and seizures... I don't remember learning that it can turn you into a completely incomprehensible...
I believe Tele floors at my hospital (360ish beds) can take cardiac drips but cannot titrate. I'm not sure if that applies to nitro or not. Curious though, if you are moving from the area, are you...
EuropaRN replied to delphine22's topic in MICU, SICU
I think 8. Heparin (then argatroban), insulin, bicarb gtt, arivan, fent, neo, levo, vaso, and then fluids with abx and lyte replacement riders. He was on crrt and obviously vented. Came to us because...
We are required to take two 12 hour call shifts per month if we are in the first two groups to schedule (priority). If we are in the third group, we get the left over regular shifts, but only one 12...
EuropaRN replied to XNavyCorpsman's topic in General Nursing
Come back and let us know how you feel when you eventually give an actual wrong medication, or give bp meds to a hypotensive patient. When you're off orientation and have 5 patients to take care of,...
EuropaRN replied to misselena's topic in Home Health
Use sterile technique. I would look to see if YouTube has videos on accessing a port, there seems to be so much there. Feel the edges and feel for the central hub, find a visual landmark to aim for. I...
EuropaRN replied to joyful_wanderer's topic in Emergency
I had a pt call the hospital from her cell phone and had them page her cardiac surgeon because I couldn't give her any more pain meds! Twice she did this. The first time the operator called the unit...
I would so much rather have loose fitting but modest scrubs than all your bits hanging out. If they are clean and not wrinkled you'll look fine. This doesn't apply to men, but I hate this trend of...
EuropaRN replied to delphine22's topic in MICU, SICU
I always run my meds through by gravity (ng/og/peg) unless there's some resistance or if the meds get cloggy in the tube. That's just how I learned in school. If it's a small bowel feeding and there's...
EuropaRN replied to nursingmymind's topic in General Nursing
re: computerized med scanning, the same thing that the pp described happened to me with a dose of Lasix. It was fairly large and pharmacy had to send it up. Well it was a po dose in an amber syringe...
You too! I'm not that creative :-) Not at all, 2 nurses did their capstones in Indy and were hired. We had to make decisions by October, I think. As for pharm, learn the classes and you'll be golden....
That's what I was thinking too, some meds we stock have to be wasted and there's no document of that in the emar. It's documented in the pyxis of course, but I haven't looked to see if a staff rn has...
I always always check compatibilities, especially if I come on to many lines y-ed in together. Recently my hospital has adopted a policy to reuse secondary tubing for compatible iv antibiotics and...
I love teaching my patients about their disease process. There have been a couple of times I've had a student follow me for a few hours and I loved teaching them this and that. I can certainly see...