Karou

Karou

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  1. Nursing Home Chest Pain

    Karou replied to aloha57's topic in General Nursing

    Your supervisor infuriates me. I hope you documented your attempts to communicate with her and the physician, and that she was the one who called the non emergency medical transport. Chest pain are my...

  2. What have you learned about Death?

    Karou replied to g2255lw's topic in General Nursing

    Sounds like homework. Are you supposed to be interviewing a nurse in

  3. Verbal warning

    Karou replied to dass12's topic in Nursing Career

    Several different people replied to you, who were you referring to? Here is why I think saying to let it go is the best advice for you. You won't change this units politics. You were in fact in the...

  4. whats for lunch

    Karou replied to mvm2's topic in General Nursing

    You guys are so healthy. I couldn't feel satisfied eating something healthy for lunch at work. I crave comfort food. I cook myself and bring left overs... Often it's a high carb meal. If I don't cook...

  5. Nervous about starting school while living with my parents.

    Karou replied to PrettyNerd's topic in General Students

    I lived at home with my parents and family through school. It's a huge blessing. I didn't have to worry about rent, food, finances, ect... Try to see some positives. It's actually really wonderful...

  6. Verbal warning

    Karou replied to dass12's topic in Nursing Career

    You can't know for sure that no one else was written up. Could have happened on your day off, different shift, ect... So it would be better to assume that you were NOT the only one rather than that...

  7. I.V Tubing Change

    Karou replied to NGYSUN's topic in Medical-Surgical

    Go by your facilities policy. Ours is 96 hours for continuous and 24 for intermittent. All tubing gets labeled when hung with that date and the due change

  8. Heparin

    Karou replied to bear14's topic in Medical-Surgical

    I would have held it and called the doctor, yes. Most of our doctors write a standing order when they order heparin that says to hold for platelets less than 150k. If they don't then I would hold and...

  9. Code Blue Systems

    Karou replied to WillowNMe's topic in General Nursing

    We push a code button in the patients room that causes an alarm and lights to go off on the unit. There is an automatic page overhead hospital wide with the unit location and the code team gets paged...

  10. Nursing students not happy to hear about how tough it is to get started as a nurse

    Karou replied to dnsonthego's topic in General Nursing

    Some of the schools in my area will help students get their CNA license (can't remember which semester they do that in) and encourage them to apply for PRN hospital positions or nurse externships....

  11. Exclude 1 yr HH experience on resume?

    Karou replied to xoNurseRNxo's topic in General Nursing

    I would not lie on your resume. Potential employers can/will check your employment history. If they do find you were previously employed and lied about it, then not only do you loose out on the job...

  12. Didn't follow through and caused med error

    Karou replied to Fishingaround's topic in General Nursing

    Would you feel comfortable charting it as given by someone else (we have an option for "given by other"), and adding a comment/note like this, "given at blab blah time as per off going RN, insert...

  13. As a single nurse were you able to buy a home?

    Karou replied to pixiestudent2's topic in General Nursing

    It can be done! Do you have good credit and a decent amount in savings? It's a great idea to put 20% down if possible because it not only does that mean you don't have to pay PMI interest, but it also...

  14. Appropriate to go to a patients funeral?

    Karou replied to Emily456's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    I think it's appropriate to go to a funeral if you were invited. In the LTC I used to work at when a resident passed, the family would leave funeral information in an area where all staff could see...

  15. Roaches At work

    Karou replied to Shany1312's topic in General Nursing

    Yes. Unless they know there is a problem they can't do anything about it. Let your DON

  16. Do patients know a "good nurse"?

    Karou replied to NursesRmofun's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    The idea of being a good nurse from a patients perspective depends on what the patient values. They may care more about their emotional needs being met than they do about their medical ones. Also, so...

  17. Do patients know a "good nurse"?

    Karou replied to NursesRmofun's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I think you need to cool down. She didn't bash all nurses, she explained a legitimate complaint she had about one particular nurse. The rest of her posts speak of how she appreciated and enjoyed her...

  18. How many patients do you have on average?

    Karou replied to Jm0136's topic in Medical-Surgical

    5-6 on nights, 4-5 on days. PCT'a have 10-12 patients on days and 12 on nights. We are about 70% acute medical and 30%

  19. Is it really worth it... So Miserable!! So Insecure!!

    Karou replied to nursy1's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Does your preceptor know that this is your first hospital job? I have noticed (not often, but occasionally) that people will assume that because a nurse is older than the average new grad that they...

  20. "What to Expect When You're a Patient"

    Karou replied to Graduatenurse14's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    So true. Once your illness is stable then it's time to get back to performing ADL's and getting back to max function, especially if you were independent before and discharging home alone. Patients...

  21. not comfortable with giving narcotic injection due to street drug interaction

    Karou replied to Sarge_BSN_RN's topic in Patient Medications

    What were the illicit substances? What was the narcotic? Was your patient stable? I would have given the narcotic. Especially after you already discussed it with the physician. I probably would have...

  22. "What to Expect When You're a Patient"

    Karou replied to Graduatenurse14's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I'm sorry for derailing the thread some but... Does your facility have a policy for what to do if a non-patient is in distress? Ours is to call a code blue and the code team will come and treat them...

  23. That nagging feeling...

    Karou replied to dudette10's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    I can't go into too much detail because it's very fresh, but I recently had a situation where this happened and the outcome was negative. I had a patient who appeared fine except for one minor...

  24. Blue Pigtail on Nasogastric Tube

    Karou replied to mikeynizm's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    This thread is amazing! I just want to say thank you for everyone who took time to provide such great detailed information. I learned several new things from reading this that will improve my...

  25. Tylenol ordered for pain.

    Karou replied to gouranga's topic in Patient Medications

    Just commenting because I had this situation come up recently at work. Patient spiked a temp (103.2) and had Tylenol ordered for pain. I gave the Tylenol for the temp and then called the doctor to let...