BonnieSc

BonnieSc

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  1. Med Error?

    BonnieSc replied to BlessedNurse15's topic in Patient Medications

    Unless incident reports are treated as major only in your facility, deserving of punishment, I would fill it out. There's no medication error but there is a narcotics control issue. When one bag comes...

  2. How I Became a Nurse Writer

    BonnieSc replied to Nurse Beth's topic in Nurse Entrepreneurs, Innovators

    Thank you, Beth! This is a goal of mine. Two things that hold me back from writing more... one, I know from having a pretty successful blog with my sisters in another area, I don't really enjoy...

  3. why do so many nurses post that they love the med scanners

    BonnieSc replied to the nites's topic in General Nursing

    I was totally anti-scanner and happily left my school placement and two different jobs right before they got scanners--coincidentally, but I was pleased. Then I had a travel assignment with...

  4. New nurse - Bedside nursing is not for me

    BonnieSc replied to Nurse Beth's topic in Career Advice Column

    Besides the business related options, hospice seems like the logical place for this nurse to explore, since her inspiration was being with relatives who died of cancer. Feelix, your advice may be...

  5. Anyone Who Says They Don't is Lying: Medication Error

    BonnieSc replied to BonnieSc's topic in Patient Medications

    I'm not. As I said it depends on your practice setting, but many psych units have a morning med call, etc--compared to regular acute care where a patient can have meds at pretty much any hour, in...

  6. Anyone Who Says They Don't is Lying: Medication Error

    BonnieSc replied to BonnieSc's topic in Patient Medications

    Thanks for pointing out the issues with barcoding--it is just there as a catch and the five rights are still very necessary. Having barcoding really makes clear how many near-misses there are! The...

  7. Anyone Who Says They Don't is Lying: Medication Error

    BonnieSc replied to BonnieSc's topic in Patient Medications

    Absolutely--when we get comfortable, we can get careless. Even just thinking of unfamiliar meds, those are less likely to result in errors as the nurse checks and doublechecks. I really think the five...

  8. Anyone Who Says They Don't is Lying: Medication Error

    BonnieSc replied to BonnieSc's topic in Patient Medications

    I have heard of the vest but not seen it in acute care. On the other hand, my most recent permanent hospital really committed to no interruptions at the pyxis. I was impressed by what a difference...

  9. Anyone Who Says They Don't is Lying: Medication Error

    BonnieSc replied to BonnieSc's topic in Patient Medications

    Actually, there are minor and major medication errors. And as I am a clinical instructor and have worked with many students, both as an instructor and a preceptor, I can tell you that in my experience...

  10. Anyone Who Says They Don't is Lying: Medication Error

    BonnieSc replied to BonnieSc's topic in Patient Medications

    I didn't say doing documentation isn't important--I said I don't think it should be one of the five rights, or rather six rights, or fourteen rights. Documentation is important in all aspects of...

  11. Comparing myself/feeling inadequate

    BonnieSc replied to ladydanger's topic in General Nursing

    I get praise from co-workers at times, and personally from patients/families, but it's very rare for me to get mentioned in patient feedback after they go home... the same people get mentioned over...

  12. Anyone Who Says They Don't is Lying: Medication Error

    BonnieSc replied to BonnieSc's topic in Patient Medications

    Yes, exactly. Like most students I was naive and thought both medication errors and substance abuse problems were things that happened to OTHER nurses. I don't have a SA problem but I certainly...

  13. Anyone Who Says They Don't is Lying: Medication Error

    BonnieSc replied to BonnieSc's topic in Patient Medications

    This was simply not my school's policy. I think it might have been in pediatrics because of the particular challenges and risks in calculating drug doses there. I do remember being told not to take...

  14. Anyone Who Says They Don't is Lying: Medication Error

    BonnieSc replied to BonnieSc's topic in Patient Medications

    The entire point of my article is that the 5 Rights are not "bogus". My experience with students has showed me that most students (like myself as a first-year nursing student) don't think they're...

  15. Anyone Who Says They Don't is Lying: Medication Error

    BonnieSc replied to BonnieSc's topic in Patient Medications

    I'm not going to argue with how my post was perceived, but I will say that I was taking a particular angle for this audience of nurses, which wasn't to say how bad medication errors are; it was to say...

  16. Anyone Who Says They Don't is Lying: Medication Error

    BonnieSc replied to BonnieSc's topic in Patient Medications

    Personally I hate that some schools are now teaching "the six rights"--the sixth right being Right Documentation. Five is enough, five is for patient safety in administration. Yes, we have to...

  17. Late arriving Nurses

    BonnieSc replied to Goal_NP's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    If you're not ten minutes early, you're late? No way. Stop giving away your time. The hours you're actually paid for are sufficient to do your job. I'm ready every day (I suppose 95% would be...

  18. Workshop for Open Heart Nurses

    BonnieSc replied to BonnieSc's topic in CCU, Coronary, Cardiac

    Great suggestions, thank

  19. Workshop for Open Heart Nurses

    BonnieSc posted a topic in CCU, Coronary, Cardiac

    Hi, I'm going to be teaching a workshop for nurses who will be caring for open heart patients. These are normally med-surg nurses who will be caring for pediatric (12-20 years old) valve replacement...

  20. Wound Cleaning Techniques

    BonnieSc posted a topic in Wound, Ostomy, Continence

    I have another question from the developing world... the standard method here for wound cleaning is pretty rough-literally rough. Basically, they take 2x2s moistened with normal saline and scrub the...

  21. Medication Error Question

    BonnieSc posted a topic in Medical-Surgical

    I'm a unit nurse educator and have a medication error to deal with: dexamethasone clearly prescribed for one day (3 doses) but it stayed on the MAR and the nurses continued to give it for four days....

  22. How do employers feel about BSN vs MSN?

    BonnieSc replied to watermelly's topic in Washington Nursing

    Just a note since I see you're new to nursing and don't know all of the terminology yet: you will ALWAYS be working as an RN, no matter the degree or the job, as long as you are employed as a nurse. I...

  23. New Grad...Is this typical?

    BonnieSc replied to MeganStar's topic in General Nursing

    It's just that it's not even TRUE. It varies by the school/hospital for clinicals more than by the program. The amount of clinical time needed is set by the state board of nursing and isn't different...

  24. Question about IV meds

    BonnieSc replied to Kags2015's topic in Camp

    Is the caregiver a nurse, or are the parents (or equivalent) doing this at home? We have sometimes gotten around situations like this by training someone else on staff, a layperson, to give the...

  25. It was only 3 weeks

    BonnieSc replied to SnowShoeRN's topic in Camp

    Clarify: are you looking for other summer camp jobs, or for nursing jobs in general? If it's summer camp, you definitely need to address it--not necessarily in the resume, but at least answer honestly...