Tenebrae BSN, RN

Mental Health, Gerontology, Palliative

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    Too old for BSN?

    Tenebrae replied to forever88's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    You're kidding right? I started my BSN at 32, graduated at 35. We had people alot older than that in the class as well No, 22 is not too
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    Sharing unorthodox treatments - Where to draw the line?

    Tenebrae replied to radtechgirl's topic in General Nursing

    Nope. However our doctors accept that they dont really know much about wound care and usually will happily defer to nurses. We will keep them in a loop as at the end of the day they have the overall...
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    Sharing unorthodox treatments - Where to draw the line?

    Tenebrae replied to radtechgirl's topic in General Nursing

    We cant prescribe meds/OTCs. However honey dressings were a standard part of our tool box, along with silver, seaweed, iodine,
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    Sharing unorthodox treatments - Where to draw the line?

    Tenebrae replied to radtechgirl's topic in General Nursing

    Wow...... We have the scope to use what ever wound product we feel is appropriate to use with a particular wound. If we want something specialist eg negative pressure, compression, it needs to go...
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    A New Study Shows Why Obamacare Should Have Been Single-Payer

    Tenebrae replied to herring_RN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Speaking of a negative of our system, a recent article revealed all but one of the heads of the district health boards got a raise of between $10-100,000K each. Many of these same health boards...
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    A New Study Shows Why Obamacare Should Have Been Single-Payer

    Tenebrae replied to herring_RN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Basic life lesson for you. The media are not a reliable source of information. They slant stories what ever way sells maximum
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    A New Study Shows Why Obamacare Should Have Been Single-Payer

    Tenebrae replied to herring_RN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    And, whats this got to do with anything? Basic maths for you. If you have 100 people paying $10 tax each, you have $1000 pool. Lets say you have 100,000,000 paying $10 tax there is a tax pool of...
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    Hired at an employer I owe a medical bill to.

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

    Not really. Here that same proceedure would have cost you for the taxi ride home and thats about it Having been through the dragging my financial bones around (didn't quite get to bankruptcy but got...
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    A New Study Shows Why Obamacare Should Have Been Single-Payer

    Tenebrae replied to herring_RN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    I get it, none of you want to be paying taxes and having to fund healthcare for those dead beats who dont work. Reality is, when one looks at what you pay monthly in health insurance premiums versus...
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    What did I do wrong?

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

    I still have the guilts over my error..... Again its about learning from your mistake and moving on. Dont give up on
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    What did I do wrong?

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

    1.Trust your gut instinct. If something sounds wrong or dodgy, dont be afraid to ask for it written down, protect your butt. 2. While as a CNA you cant have anything to do with the meds, it would be...
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    Unique situation

    Tenebrae replied to T-Bird78's topic in HIPAA Challenges

    Is it possible to do the RO! with the house as a whole? In terms of it being a service with multiple people who work with the residents Our consent forms which our patients sign when they enter our...
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    Living through going to barcode scanning

    Tenebrae replied to Graduatenurse14's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    I disagree No system is perfect and if you rely on it without doing your own 5 right checks, still risk for med error
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    Mean and Ruthless Nurses who are receiving your report

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

    I had an enrolled nurse tell me the other day that I should have rung the patients doctor at home on a Saturday afternoon to inform them that the patient had a fungal infection of the groin. I'm like...
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    Respiratory depression

    Tenebrae replied to Kissy1818's topic in Patient Medications

    No, or at least I wouldn't Imagine a graph if you will with a straight horizontal line in the middle. This line represents the ideal amount of narcotic/medication needed to manage a palliative...
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    meds - confused

    Tenebrae replied to nurs15's topic in Patient Medications

    I suspect. Which also leaves me concerned that a nursing student cant realise what a substantial error 500g paracetamol
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    meds - confused

    Tenebrae replied to nurs15's topic in Patient Medications

    to give 500grams of paracetamol in any form would be fairly impossible unless it was someone taking an intentional overdose. Most paracetamol liquids are either 125mg/5ml or 250mg/5mls. 1g= 20mls....
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    Is it OK to discipline nurses extra for calling in sick on a holiday?

    Tenebrae replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

    The day I got admitted to hospital with raging cellulitis and sepsis I could walk. I managed to work 2/3rd of the shift, made one med error and while the patient wasnt adversely affected as a result,...
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    Do you clean bedpans or throw them out?

    Tenebrae replied to RNdynamic's topic in General Nursing

    Do they not provide shielded sluice sinks? I suspect we may be talking about a different type of plastic, because generally in the hospitals it gets sluiced, rinsed and put through the steriliser...
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    Is it OK to discipline nurses extra for calling in sick on a holiday?

    Tenebrae replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

    Unfortunately in alot of hospitals here this ends up happening because nurses apply for the time off and because they are so continuously short staffed the nurses never get the leave. So the only...
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    EVANGELISM IN WARD

    Tenebrae replied to Oyinz24's topic in Spirituality, Religion

    We are health care professionals there to provide nursing care as required and ordered. Evangelism on the job is completely
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    meds - confused

    Tenebrae replied to nurs15's topic in Patient Medications

    At the end of the day the registered nurse is the one in charge, if something goes wrong its potentially their registration on the line. Not sure if you are talking NZ or Australia. In NZ within the...
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    meds - confused

    Tenebrae replied to nurs15's topic in Patient Medications

    I'm assuming you mean milligrams? The only possible reason I could imagine is if the patient had abnormal liver function or possible liver failure. Did the nurse check the time the previous dose was...
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    The Story of Jahi Continues

    Tenebrae replied to EaglesWings21's topic in Nursing News

    I lost a patient this week. Both personally and clinically my feelings were of over whelming relief for the patient. It had been a long road and the last weeks were incredibly painful anxiety fuels...
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    Should I call off?

    Tenebrae replied to Rocktheman's topic in General Nursing

    Get a doctors certificate. My managers were sceptical of a recent absence due to illness. Until I took the hospital discharge paper work into them detailing my six days off work due to illness and...