iluvgusgus

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1. Would you ever ask another nurse to give your pt a suppository?

   iluvgusgus replied to iluvgusgus's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

   I did feel put on the spot because these nurses are turning these pts every 2 hours whether I am there or not... so when they know I am coming around are they waiting for me to do the honors? I don't...

2. Would you ever ask another nurse to give your pt a suppository?

   iluvgusgus replied to iluvgusgus's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

   Yes Flexiseal! thank you. Whenever there is a BM to clean, I thought it was just "nurse etiquette" to be the one doing the cleaning while your helpers hold and roll your pt. And I like your screen...

3. Pushing flush too slow?

   iluvgusgus replied to Birdy2's topic in Patient Medications

   I've never heard of doing push/pause for a PIV...that's usually for a PICC or CVL which needs more pressure to flush? Maybe that was too much pressure for the vein, she sounds like she had poor veins...

4. The "increase minimum wage" issue.

   iluvgusgus replied to shermrn's topic in Collective Bargaining, Union

   It all comes down to economics. Raising the minimum raise is inflation if it causes everyone to desire higher wages in relation with the rise in the minimum wage and the price increases that come...

5. Would you ever ask another nurse to give your pt a suppository?

   iluvgusgus replied to iluvgusgus's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

   Thank you all for your input. I was a teamplayer and did what they asked me, I am not a difficult person to work with I have earned merit raises based on my teamwork. I work in an ICU and turning 30...

6. Would you ever ask another nurse to give your pt a suppository?

   iluvgusgus posted a topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

   I am a skin and wound resource nurse for my unit and I have to do PU prevalence for my unit every wednesday. I have to turn 30 pts and assess their skin for PUs and clean BMs with the nurse if we find...

7. PTT vs PT/INR

   iluvgusgus replied to jack4nursing's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

   No matter if the pt is on heparin or coumadin, DVT prophylaxis fits answer #2 the best and is the broadest

8. Dating a former patient

   iluvgusgus replied to thepsychtech's topic in Psychiatric

   Do yourself a favor and run the other way! You are setting yourself up for

9. ICU especially hard on back?

   iluvgusgus replied to Subclavian Steel's topic in Critical Care

   ICU is hard on the back. When I worked M/S I rarely had back pain. Now that I am in the ICU and I turn both my pts every 2 hours or more often plus transport them plus help get them on the mri/CT scan...

10. <20 BS Hypoglycemic episode- Need Advice.

    iluvgusgus replied to NYMurse91's topic in Medical-Surgical

    He just sounds like a very brittle diabetic and sometimes theres nothing you can do to control the BG

11. My husband is in nursing school

    iluvgusgus replied to graphicdesigner22's topic in Men in Nursing

    So when I was in nursing school, I barely had time to eat dinner and driving more than a half hour for a study group wouldve cut into study time and I wouldnt have ever done that. I think 8 hours in a...

12. ICU pay differential?

    iluvgusgus replied to Mr. Murse's topic in Critical Care

    They only require it for nurses trained as charge nurses and there are frequently 2 or 3 nurses who frequently charge on staff as "stat" nurses helping with new admissions and codes as they arise....

13. I do not want to give up.

    iluvgusgus replied to Tesfanurse's topic in General Nursing

    If you are willing to relocate to get a job, inbox

14. ICU pay differential?

    iluvgusgus replied to Mr. Murse's topic in Critical Care

    Umm... I think you should be grateful that you are being given the privilege and PAID training to take care of your hospital's sickest patients. Yes, it is obviously specialized training, that they...

15. Ebola in the pregnant patient

    iluvgusgus replied to obrn23's topic in Ob/Gyn

    I dont see how refusing a patient assignment would be patient abandonment if you didnt accept them as your assignment nor received report on them? That's not how it works and that would not be right,...