Running 20-40 meq KCL makes sense...though it can only be done with a central line...but 10 meq is just frustrating! It takes an hour to run in into a peripheral line and you know you could get 20 meq...
I'm glad there are nurses like you who can care for patients who come from prisons. I do not have difficulty with it, but I might if I knew what crime they committed. It is not my job to judge, but...
I have really enjoyed this thread. It has stirred up a lot of thoughts. Originally it was put out there to discuss physical security, but it seems to have brought out more on the attitude of the staff...
That's exactly why I don't want to know what my prisoner-patients did. We are pretty strict about that. Sometimes a guard will try to tell me and I'll tell them to stop that I'm afraid knowing will...
I'm pretty much in agreement with you. Actually, I think we would benefit from having RNs work as LPNs first, too. And let's not leave the doctors out. The best doctors I know were nurses first....
The prisoners (or whatever you choose to call those who are normally incarcerated in a prison) who need so many guards (or whatever...), including those outside, are federal prisoners and, now it's...
I hope I won't find out what my prisoner-patient's are guilty of. I know it would affect how I feel about them if they were sexual predators. I found out a cute older gentleman that I enjoyed having...
How do you manage patients who need to be guarded? In our hospital they are in the general population and have the number of guards appropriate to their status. We refer to them by a number or...
I started out on a cardiac (telemetry) floor right out of school. I learned that in our hospital, where we do open heart, there is plenty of opportunity for medical/surgical experience. We also get a...
From the time I could speak, when people asked me what I wanted to be I said "A nurse and a mommy." I wasn't blessed with kids and it took me 44 years to begin nursing school. The only reason I began...
I feel naked without my Littman around my neck! I have bought and made covers for it. That helps a lot. I have scratched my name into the bell and work in an area where a stethescope is protected for...
It seems like it would be easier to just give PO k+ but when the patient complains of burning, I do like the originator of this thread and run it (with a second pump) as a primary so that it is mixing...
I lived in Kenai, Alaska for a little over two years. I really liked it but didn't like being so far away from the few family members I have, so I moved back to the lower 48. Summertime is wonderful,...