Thanks! I really appreciate you. So if the concentration was 3ml? You will give the 3ml, correct. LOL trying to figure out how to tell my instructor she’s
Hey It’s for a depo shot it says to administer 150mg that’s it. 150mg equals 0.15mls right. Why would my instructor have me use this syringe? I’m sorry if I’m sounding slow. My instructor...
I know it makes me sound slow and dumb but oh well. If a med reads give 150mg that equals 0.15ml correct? How is this drawn up on a 3ml syringe? If the bevel is at 1 1/2 wouldn’t that be 1.5ml and...
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She has demonstrated the skill, the first week she would actually do it herself. I would chart refused. Not sure what other nurses charted. But I finally got her to let me do it because I needed to...
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Hey! Her Care Plan is centered around her having a Trach that she cleans and change all the time. The reason I know is because while I was doing it, she told me I was the only nurse that cleaned her...
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WOW!, You really opened my eyes I guess insurance fraud isn’t really common. I heard her say one day to her ex coworker that she gets paid to do nothing and sit on her a** all day. I was like OMG....
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I mentioned what the pt told me because I’m pretty new to this case and wanted to know exactly why she needed skilled nursing because the agency couldn’t be specific ( red flag) my notes are...
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I’m just curious, the pt told me she was told by the MD she will need skilled nursing care and cannot he left alone. This pt also plays on this, I believe to get sympathy from her family. She’ll...
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Katie, You probably couldn’t perform those tasks and in that case I wouldn’t mind. My other pt is a Quad and she does as much as she can. I don’t mind helping her with dinner, tidying up and...
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You are so right. I’m going to let the agency know after this pandemic is over why has been going on. But if nurses allow it and so forth then yes it’ll continue on. And trust me a lot of them...