Beanyamean

Beanyamean specializes in BLS/ALS/CVAS.

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1. Wearing scrubs to a funeral?

   Beanyamean posted a topic in General Nursing

   I work in a small, tight knit urgent care clinic/hospital/ED. Recently, one of my favorite doctors passed away unexpectedly. Management has been thoughtful enough to close the clinic for a short period on Saturday so we can attend his memorial servic...

2. Legality of signing refill requests?

   Beanyamean replied to Beanyamean's topic in General Nursing

   I fail to see where your response is helpful in the least.

3. Full sharps containers not getting emptied!?

   Beanyamean replied to Beanyamean's topic in Safety

   Not by any means a manager. If I was it would not be a problem. As states previously I went to "higher ups" with no avail. But we have had a lot of mgmt changes recently. I guess persistence is key.

4. Full sharps containers not getting emptied!?

   Beanyamean replied to Beanyamean's topic in Safety

   Here is just a quick count to put this in perspective. Of the 14 containers I was able to check during a "slow" period, 8 of them were at or above the full line. 4 of them very full. 2 of them probably will need to be changed tomorrow. I paged house ...

5. Tegaderm and tape dressing on VERY diaphoretic patient

   Beanyamean replied to Beanyamean's topic in General Nursing

   I like mastisol because it is something like 10 times "stickier" than benzoin, and it comes in a perfect applicator. We do have Kling/kerlix, Coban, ect. But it seemed to work really well with mastisol and tegaderm. I just replaced the chevron tape w...

6. Full sharps containers not getting emptied!?

   Beanyamean replied to Beanyamean's topic in Safety

   I agree with everyone. I personally have no issues changing the containers myself. It takes just a minute or two to do it. Our containers are wall mounted in a locked container that require a key that only housekeeping has. There is talk of giving us...

7. Full sharps containers not getting emptied!?

   Beanyamean replied to Beanyamean's topic in Safety

   Our hospital is small so there is no number to call. We use an online alpha paging system. Sometimes they come, sometimes not. I try to balance paging them again with understanding that they are busy and understaffed as well. It just seems low on the...

8. Full sharps containers not getting emptied!?

   Beanyamean posted a topic in Safety

   This has become an increasing problem at the facility I work at in the clinic, urgent care, and ER area. Our sharps containers are routinely above the "full" line, often so full that you can actually reach in and pull out used sharps as our sharps co...

9. Legality of signing refill requests?

   Beanyamean replied to Beanyamean's topic in General Nursing

   I figured with most of the maintenance meds that this is not a problem at all. There is what I consider a "shady" standing order/policy authorizing refills. Controlled substances I am still not comfortable with. My concern with JC is that I am techni...

10. Legality of signing refill requests?

    Beanyamean replied to Beanyamean's topic in General Nursing

    I guess I just don't see how the MD,PA,NP is involved. I will give an example. I was out of a PRN med I take. I walked over to the nurse of my PCP. I asked the nurse for a refill, The nurse said "sure" typed in my info and refilled my benzo script. M...

11. Tegaderm and tape dressing on VERY diaphoretic patient

    Beanyamean replied to Beanyamean's topic in General Nursing

    Thanks for all the great replies! Not sure why I would ever start an I/O just because I was having trouble dressing a perfectly patent peripheral IV... My institution does prefer that you are able to completely view the cannula. I was able to get it ...

12. Legality of signing refill requests?

    Beanyamean posted a topic in General Nursing

    This has been bothering me, so I have decided to pick the brains of the almighty allnurses.com group. My clinic now uses an EMR system including RX refill requests. This is how it is currently set up: 1- RX refill request comes in (fax, phone call, p...

13. Tegaderm and tape dressing on VERY diaphoretic patient

    Beanyamean posted a topic in General Nursing

    Today in the ER I assisted with a patient who was extremely diaphoretic. After my coworker inserted an IV into the patients hand. They called me over for assistance as they were unable to apply any type of dressing. The patient was extremely diaphor...

14. Administered expired medication. Oh no!

    Beanyamean posted a topic in Medications

    I am a pretty avid follower of the forums here but I've never really had too much of a reason to post as I have always found the answers I am looking for. However, Today at work I administered a steroid to a pediatric patient. In my haste to administ...