Tenebrae BSN, RN

Mental Health, Gerontology, Palliative

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    Dumbest thing a doctor has done/said to you

    Tenebrae replied to WorriedNurse25's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Charting 2.5mg morphine TDS for a patient in end stage CA with bony mets. To make it worse when the patient awoke in the early hours of the morning in screaming agony there was no after hours contact...
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    Hospitals discriminating against medical conditions..?

    Tenebrae replied to CosmoRN77's topic in General Nursing

    Not a robot here. I think. However have you ever seen the movie "the Island". The clones had no idea they were clones. In the last 10 months, fractured vertebrae, badly sprained wrist, and...
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    Depression and Nursing

    Tenebrae replied to EmRN14's topic in Health, Stress Management

    Sometimes on the way home from work I play my 'random' playlist really loudly. It has everything from linkin park, U2, bastille, James Blunt etc its enough that by the time I get home I'm feeling...
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    Registered Nurse Interview (Due ASAP)

    Tenebrae replied to FutureJoy's topic in General Students

    No, however I lack the energy to give you a truly patroninsing answer. I'm honestly having deja vu, had this same conversation with someone else about 2 weeks ago how people can be anything they want...
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    Registered Nurse Interview (Due ASAP)

    Tenebrae replied to FutureJoy's topic in General Students

    Psst, I think you mean rapport Report is something that happens at shift change over Rapport: a close and harmonious relationship in which the people or groups concerned understand each other's...
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    Should I make a stink about this?

    Tenebrae replied to Zooey72's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    No, you just didnt like the answers you were given. In much of nursing, you are not required to find stuff out on your own. However if you want to upskill and remain current in best nursing...
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    Should I make a stink about this?

    Tenebrae replied to Zooey72's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    Luckily science is dictated by actual proveable theory and not personal opinion. By its nature anatomy and physiology is not an open ended subject. You didnt provide all of the information your...
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    Incontinence care of resident question?

    Tenebrae replied to StephAnnE93's topic in Medical Assistant, CNA/MA

    This is what I do If I'm changing a catheter its different but for basic pericare the above is really succinct, practical and to the
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    The Nurse on the Other Side

    Tenebrae replied to sheilagood52's topic in General Nursing

    I'd hope your priorities would be your ABCs, airway, breathing and circulation. If you dismiss a person because they have a history of chronic pain and shouldnt be in 'your ED" you run the risk of...
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    Drug seekers

    Tenebrae replied to russianbear's topic in General Nursing

    ... :yes:well
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    why do many MAs and CNAs call themselves nurses?

    Tenebrae replied to murseforever's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    They freak me out. ever since I read 'it' and watched that true crime movie about John Wayne
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    Drug seekers

    Tenebrae replied to russianbear's topic in General Nursing

    You are
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    Drug seekers

    Tenebrae replied to russianbear's topic in General Nursing

    I had cellulitis in my middle toe last week, and it hurt like
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    How do you feel about care plans?

    Tenebrae replied to shanell85's topic in General Students

    Our careplans in LTC are approx 15 pages. However working in the acute area careplans are 2 sides of an A4
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    My DON came to my house today

    Tenebrae replied to mtjoanna's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    That's insane. You did the right thing. Ensure you document everything. Your DON sounds like a lunatic and I wouldnt trust her not to turn around and say "I never said that" As for coming to your...
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    The cost of medications and universal healthcare

    Tenebrae replied to macawake's topic in General Nursing

    We have a scheme here which seeks to routinely screen kids for rheumatic fever. The cost of the test, plus a course of antibiotics runs to about $100 The cost of hospitalising kids with fully advanced...
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    The cost of medications and universal healthcare

    Tenebrae replied to macawake's topic in General Nursing

    Not necessarily. Not at all. I'm hearing more and more stories of naturalised US citizens ending up unwell some terminal, rather than return home to the US, where they would be leaving their loved...
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    MAR how should it read?

    Tenebrae replied to newrnontheblock's topic in Patient Medications

    Definitely go with the dosage not the number of pills. All it takes is for the dose form of a medication to change and you end up giving too much or not
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    why do many MAs and CNAs call themselves nurses?

    Tenebrae replied to murseforever's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    This is what I did yesterday when I was sitting on my butt. - write and send the referral for the patient who is cognitively declining, so much so having previously been very tidily dressed now...
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    Plan B!

    Tenebrae replied to Determined2017's topic in General Nursing

    Nursing was my plan B My intial degree was in social policy. To work in the area I would have had to do masters level and really didnt like it enough. So then I debated between nursing and doing a...
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    Nurses who've had LASIK

    Tenebrae replied to Ruger8mm's topic in General Nursing

    I misread the title and though it said "I'm having lasix" And then scratched my head and wondered why you'd be posting about needing to take diuretics? Opps, that will teach me to try and read when...
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    why do many MAs and CNAs call themselves nurses?

    Tenebrae replied to murseforever's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I walked onto shift today (I work in LTC) to find a patient with a badly blocked catheter. Judging from the 1500mls I drained out of it, once I'd unblocked it, it had probably been like that all...
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    IM injections

    Tenebrae replied to Guest838984's topic in General Nursing

    The only time I would give an IM antibiotic shot is for a child who is on prophylaxis antibiotics for rheumatic fever. But generally 1-2cc into the deltoid Anything larger into the
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    The cost of medications and universal healthcare

    Tenebrae replied to macawake's topic in General Nursing

    Take some of your own advice and stop listening to the propaganda mill I live in a country with universal healthcare, while its far from perfect. I can rest in the knowledge should I become unwell, I...
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    An update from the author of , "I Failed out of Nursing School ... Appealed and WON!!"

    Tenebrae replied to NurseJen_BSN,RN's topic in General Students

    Also deserves a godwin