Tenebrae BSN, RN

Mental Health, Gerontology, Palliative

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    Syringe driver terror

    Tenebrae replied to milly's topic in General Nursing

    Dunno If I had a choice, I'd much rather manage a syringe driver instead of an IV pump. If the sub cut line needs to be changed its usually a hell of alot easier to get subcut access than IV access...
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    Make It STOP!

    Tenebrae replied to meanmaryjean's topic in General Nursing

    I did my first shift in acute care last night for the first time in about a year (of working in LTC). It was a bliss only having four patients as opposed to the 34 patients I usually
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    Make It STOP!

    Tenebrae replied to meanmaryjean's topic in General Nursing

    Someone said that to me once on some internet forum, may have been here I said "thats fine, I wouldn't want to be your nurse
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    No rehire !!!!!!!!!!

    Tenebrae replied to Yorker's topic in General Nursing

    And, at the end of the day it is what it is, we can whinge and moan about how unfair it may or may not be, but the employer can use it any way they
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    No rehire !!!!!!!!!!

    Tenebrae replied to Yorker's topic in General Nursing

    An employer can do any darn thing they
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    Got a nurse aide fired... did I do the right thing?

    Tenebrae replied to Live.Love.Nurse.♡'s topic in General Nursing

    The nurse aides actions got her fired or in this case lack of
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    Repealing ACA

    Tenebrae replied to OnceMorewithFeeling's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    I have no issues with paying for my healthcare, the issue I have is when people are being made bankrupt because of basic healthcare needs, such as needing inhalers to manage medication, or are being...
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    Jahi McMath is back in the news

    Tenebrae replied to OrganizedChaos's topic in Nursing News

    Let her body
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    IVDU pt kept asking for pain meds. Managment kept saying to just give it to her.

    Tenebrae replied to ella2990's topic in General Nursing

    What were the patients o2 and respirations
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    Which field of nursing is the most technically hard?

    Tenebrae replied to Guest878640's topic in General Nursing

    I have care of 36 hospital level patients. This includes delivering medications for all of those four times a way. The pace is very fast. Many of my patients have multiple medical morbidities, we have...
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    Which field of nursing is the most technically hard?

    Tenebrae replied to Guest878640's topic in General Nursing

    All areas require continuing education if you want to be any good as a
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    Did I harm the patient??

    Tenebrae replied to RN3468's topic in General Nursing

    Stop freaking out. Its not helpful for you and it certainly isnt helpful for the patient A needle into a nerve sort of feels like boiling water being poured along the nerve. If you'd hit the patients...
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    Come On People, How Stupid Are You??

    Tenebrae replied to CapeCodMermaid's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    Its a bit scary how often nurses just plod along in the steps of the nurse before them. We use wound evaluation forms for wound dressings based on the TIME model. I'd made a mistake one day on a daily...
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    Would you suggest a different drug brand to a patient?

    Tenebrae replied to MunoRN's topic in Patient Medications

    Not really in the sense of cost as here all meds are $5 an item + or - a part charge of an extra couple of bucks for meds that arent fully subsidized. for an example though if a patient was on...
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    Feel like a horrible nurse!

    Tenebrae replied to Verygreennurse's topic in General Nursing

    Yup You aren't a mind reader, if the doc wanted you to call when the systolic was >90 he should have put the order in Stop beating yourself up for not being perfect. It sounds like you handled it...
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    "I Narcanned Your Honor Student"

    Tenebrae replied to EAGirl's topic in General Nursing

    I think its brilliant but then again the longer I work in health the more twisted my sense of humour gets. I did a whole thread on dark humour once and it ended up in much this same thing "if you...
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    Quit my first nursing home after 1 day!

    Tenebrae replied to Trixyp's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    My facility can be down right bat s*** crazy and insane, however when compared to yours OP the facility you described makes mine look like a nice weekend
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    What is the grossest thing that's happened to you???

    Tenebrae replied to PrincessAlexis's topic in General Nursing

    Having to wipe up pseudomonas infested
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    Accusation Against Male Nurse (Me)

    Tenebrae replied to Lapzs's topic in General Nursing

    What I would have done was said to the family "Hey, Mrs Black and family, I need to give these medications straight away, I'll keep and eye out for the tech to come back and sort the IV. I'll pop back...
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    Should Female Muslim Psychiatric Patients Be Allowed to Wear Hijabs?

    Tenebrae replied to purplegal's topic in Psychiatric

    Wow........ Random question, how much attitude do you get from your patients? Or are they meek little well behaved
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    How would you react? Body odor discussion.

    Tenebrae replied to Nurse-rachet1's topic in General Nursing

    I had this happen with a caregiver in my work place. She had marked body odour, so much so even my nose picked up on it and i had family and other staff complaining to me about it. Its one of those...
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    Is it customary where you work to recheck BPs manually?

    Tenebrae replied to klone's topic in General Nursing

    In our facility we only have manual BP's. However if I'm working in my per diem job and get an abnormal BP from the patients baseline I'll recheck with a manual cuff, simply due to the fact that...
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    Allnurses needs nurses

    Tenebrae replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    Truthfully I use firefox and for the last couple of months the display has been really wierd so I have to use chrome want to access all nurses and to be honest its a
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    My Documentation Disappeared...?

    Tenebrae replied to Fyles's topic in General Nursing

    I had a situation where a patient developed a deep tissue pressure injury. According to our policies this is a notifiable event both internally and externally to the ministry of health. A certain...
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    I am a new grad and can't wait to get out of orientation!

    Tenebrae replied to CRC12's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Can I suggest you take a moment, actually take several and chill out and realise while you may be incredibly book smart, you dont know alot clinically speaking and you have much to learn. Confidence...