I work in a Peds office only PRN so I don't do injections all to often. Today while working I had to give a Rocephin injection. While injecting the med into the child's leg, he started moving his leg around a lot that I hit bone. I've been a little u...
newgrad1988 replied to newgrad1988's topic in General Nursing
Yes that was my main concern. Child was calm and content immediately after. I tend to stew on things when I get home from my shift and it stresses me out. Thank you for the response!
Title: Going Back to Chart I would just like a few opinions on this. I work at a pediatric office and mainly do triaging. Sometimes when I get home I remember pertinent information that should've been charted at the time of the visit. I usually work ...
What do you do if you are realizing nursing is not for you? My dad has always encouraged me to become a nurse and for a long time I wanted to too. I did internships in high school that I loved so I thought that doing the nursing route in college woul...
So if you have looked through all my past threads you may notice that I get really concerned about small things and it causes me a great deal of anxiety, like feeling sick to my stomach. For instance, last night. I work at a pediatric clinic where I ...
I work in a pediatric office and we use LET (lidocaine, epinephrine and tetracaine) on wounds before we clean the wound and prepare it for stitches. I am curious whether or not the LET gel has any antibacterial properties in it. I question this becau...
newgrad1988 replied to newgrad1988's topic in General Nursing
Yes, that's exactly what I was meaning. I'm very well aware they aren't antibiotics... Thank you for the responses. Next time I need to use the LET I will make sure to ask for clarification on how the dr wants it done.
newgrad1988 replied to newgrad1988's topic in General Nursing
I'm sure it can and is probably a good idea, but I was taught to apply it directly to the wound. I've only used it a few times so I'm not 100% sure. Maybe I'm doing it wrong?
newgrad1988 replied to newgrad1988's topic in General Nursing
I have looked it up but haven't found much info on it. There have been a few studies, but not many results. I wanted to hear from experienced nurses and find out what you all know about it.
Ok, kinda weird/probably very paranoid question... Tonight while irrigating a wound with hibiclens prior to the patient getting stitches, I breathed out and a small about of drainage came out of my nose, just like sometimes when speaking and a little...
Question... Today while giving vaccines to a 6 month old, I had to apply a new clean needle to one of the vaccines I was giving due to being contaminated by touching the patients skin before the actual injection was given. I definitely remember clean...
Yesterday I was giving 3 vaccines to a 5 year old who was screaming and really upset about the shots. The mom was holding her arms and hugging her as I proceeded to give her the vaccines in her thighs while laying on the table. I always bring in a li...
I recently started working in a pediatric office where today I gave a rocephin injection IM. We don't normally aspirate with vaccines but with rocephin we do. Since I don't aspirate much, because we do vaccines more, I'm a little concerned about an i...
Question... I'm new at being a nurse and always question myself. I work on a long term care facility and tonight before I gave a patient trazodone the aid told me they have been crushing his pills due to them finding whole pills under his bed. So I c...
I am a brand new RN and just started my first job. Unfortunately in my first week I made a med error. Thankfully the patient was ok and I got everything taken care of that I needed to. The next day I worked I gave a patient metoprolol succinate that ...