daniela095

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1. Dream job in my hospital only offers night shift position should I do it?

   daniela095 posted a topic in General Nursing

   I have been a nurse for almost two years as a med surg/tele nurse. I started on nights for my first year, and I had a lot of trouble with sleeping and my general well being etc. I am starting to plan...

2. Always sick!

   daniela095 posted a topic in General Nursing

   A little background.. Im 24 and have been a nurse for about a year and a half. I am a float, med surg floors as well as ED on day shift. I’m in the ED a lot. This fall- winter I have been sick 4...

3. Forgot to restart my patients fluids

   daniela095 replied to daniela095's topic in General Nursing

   Thanks for the replies. The fluid was LR for pancreatitis. However, for those saying that I'm covering up a mistake/ hoping no one notices isn't true. I should've said in my original post that I...

4. Forgot to restart my patients fluids

   daniela095 posted a topic in General Nursing

   I gave an IV push med to one of my patients today and had to unhook them from the continuous lactated ringers infusion to do so. After I was done I forgot to hook them back up to the infusion. It was...

5. Gave medications too early is this an error?

   daniela095 replied to daniela095's topic in Patient Medications

   My preceptor was the charge nurse the night I told her. She pretty much just said to be careful next time and didn't write a

6. Gave medications too early is this an error?

   daniela095 replied to daniela095's topic in Patient Medications

   But is this something that should have been an incident report? I realized this days later actually when I looked back since I was taking care of the patient for a few days in a row. My preceptor...

7. Gave medications too early is this an error?

   daniela095 posted a topic in Patient Medications

   Patient I had just admitted was ordered heparin subcutaneous every 12 hours. I gave the first dose upon admission and then the next morning ended up giving the next dose 6 hours after that first dose...

8. New grad anxiety

   daniela095 posted a topic in First Year After Licensure

   I just started orientation a couple weeks ago. I am training on days and next week will be switching to nights. I am actually float pool. A lot of new grad nurses at this hospital have done float pool...

9. Giving insulin late patient request

   daniela095 replied to daniela095's topic in General Nursing

   Here are more details; I would like some more opinions please: My patient had an order for sliding scale humalog 3 times a day before meals REGARDLESS of PO status. Meaning they can still get the...

10. Sunrise clinical manager overriding meds

    daniela095 posted a topic in General Nursing

    Does anyone use sunrise clinical manager in their hospitals? My hospital is cracking down on overridden meds that we're not used with bar code administration. Technically this is done in emergencies....

11. Forgetting to document one of my every four hour neuro check

    daniela095 replied to daniela095's topic in General Nursing

    Thank you makes sense. I am confident that the patient had no change when I assessed her so hopefully it stayed that way and no one will give me a problem for the documentation. I am new and still...

12. Forgetting to document one of my every four hour neuro check

    daniela095 replied to daniela095's topic in General Nursing

    Thanks. I know there is someone in the hospital who looks at the neuro checks I just hope it isn't a big deal if they see I

13. Forgetting to document one of my every four hour neuro check

    daniela095 posted a topic in General Nursing

    This happened yesterday late in the afternoon. Woke up earlier and realized I didn't document my last neuro check after I did it. I remember getting pushed into doing something else and never...

14. Giving insulin late patient request

    daniela095 replied to daniela095's topic in General Nursing

    Humalog insulin ordered for patient before meals however it is to be given regardless of whether or not they eat. The patient requested not to have insulin at 8. She got the insulin at 10. Next dose...

15. Giving insulin late patient request

    daniela095 replied to daniela095's topic in General Nursing

    Hi, patient didn't eat yet when I gave it late she was just starting to eat. However it said to give anyway even if patient doesn't eat after the insulin. She was just a difficult patient and wanted...