hardyea
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I had a doctor tell me the patient can't die because they have a pacemaker.
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I have been nursing for 29 years and all my career has been spent working in critical care, and in my experience it is not the norm for male nurses to get more respect. There are certain doctors I have worked with who would be more congenial to the male nurses and approach them as an equal but not all doctors do this. One incident I recall was a male anesthesist who commended a male nurse in the recovery room for quickly realizing his pt was having a stroke. The male nurse did not point out that he was actually at break and the female nurse was the one who assessed the pt and felt he was having a stroke. Well you should have seen the looks when I pointed out the nurse who had in fact made this call.
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In my unit a regional needs to spend 1hour with us minimum, down 4 dermatones and be able to move their feet and bend their knees
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Our regional c sections are recovered in the PACU.
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If the pain medication ordered is morphine I will give an antiemetic prophylactically to prevent the nausea before it starts. I see less episodes of nausea with dilaudid. I have also seen people who just need to vomit to feel better, no matter what you give them it doesn't work (ie) tonsillectomy may have swallowed blood and after vomiting they feel better.