Tenebrae BSN, RN

I struggled with maths when I started my degree. We were recommended maths and meds for nurses https://www.amazon.com.au/Math-Meds-Nurses-Dolores-Saxton/dp/1401834566 It takes you from the basic maths and how it applys in our day to ...

Versed, in a glass phial doesnt need to be reconstituted doesnt have a warning label about being a paralytic Vercuronium, in a glass phial with a red top, and needs to be reconstituted. Has a large warning "paralytic" You can keep making ex...

How is a hospital responsible for a nurse not reading the medication label? don't get me wrong, not to say the hospital has massive systemic errors at the end of the day she didn't read the label and Charlene Murphy died a horrific death

No, it couldnt. I had to draw up vancomycin the other day. Do you know the first thing I did? Checked the box to ensure the correct medication, checked the phial in the box to ensure I had vancomycin. I then checked the EMAR to ensure I had the...

Must of missed that interview. Not once has she expressed any remorse or owned her mistakes in public interviews

No it wasnt just a mistake, she didn't read the phial of medication. VERCURONIUM vs VERSED, Never mind the 8 plus other safety checks she bypassed. The whole tragedy could have been averted if she had just read the bottle. She has done nothing ...

because if someone asked me to speak in my city - tell me when I need to show up - out of my city, pay my transport and accomodation costs if I need to stay over. Neither of those options remotely come close to $10,000 As for ha...

she could have owned her mistake. Shown how she had learned from the mistake and to stop it happening again Not played the victim As for loosing her income, at least she is still breathing and her loved ones can still interact with her. Cha...

Possibly not by capitalising on the fact shes killed a patient. Not only did she kill the patient, the patient died horribly, suffocating and fully aware of the fact she was suffocating

I'm not going to sit here and push a false narrative. I have an ethical obligation to be as honest as I can. It's great that you are vulnerable, it doesnt change the fact that you made a monumemtal mistake. You cant come on a nursing forum and not e...

We have saying on my ward "stay in your lane" If its not covered in your job description, leave it alone. You screwed up removing the IV. You say it was only clindamycin. In NZ clindamycin is not used as a first line antibiotic but usually...

Way back 20 odd years ago when I was bouncing around the system I got to help create a sand stone sculpture which now sits out the front of the new unit. It was meadningful because many of us got to help make it. Would it be doable to have con...

I'm a kiwi, Some of the english girls use fanny but its not in the glutes And ditto if someone says they are going to jab you there, run while you still can In the fanny is in the vagina.

When I have worked palliative care, dose ranges were common Eg morphine 2.5-5mg Q1-2 hourly. If 2.5mg was given, another 2.5mg could be given within the 2 hours. If the patient was needing 5mg constantly we would go back to the doctors an...

What she did was unforgiveable. The fact that there are people who want to hear her speak floors me

I know this is an old thread, however I don't know of many members of royalty who are bouncing around pysch units. Helpful piece of advise develop some compassion and remember the old adage 'there but the grace of god go I' Might not be yo...

I'm reluctant to suggest adding to your paper work. Every staff assault, inappropriate behaviour etc incident form it. Continue to incident form it. This is a situation I wouldnt allow to continue without a strong paper trail

I'd settle for step 1: Read the medication label

Its the fact that this occured should horrify any human being. As for flushing it down the loo. At that point what was she supposed to do, put the remains in a box and take it to her local hospital?

#iamcharlenemurphy Far easier to crucify us than consider RV isn't the patron saint of drug errors + negligent homicide #iamcharlenemurphy

Sorry I'm agnostic so don't do prayer. Charlene Murphy died a horrific death, gasping, trying to get air into her lungs. As she lay DYING on her own, fully aware that she was dying and there was no way of stopping that, All the 10+ other safety...

I have yet to see applicants voice the main reason for wanting to die as "being duty bound, or being a burden to their family"'. Working in hospice, family was one of the reasons why people fight for so long I read something a few years ago out ...

In the same vein. I had a patient who had terminal cancer, was dying just slowly. This person applied to the assisted dying scheme and was declined because their life expectancy was still over 6 months. I've had colleages who felt that the sch...

Well after almost four years I finally tested postive on a RAT. Had been feeling yuck on days off and thought I'd better do a RAT. Thought initially it was NAD however when I picked it up I say a very faint line. Merely sharing for a rant...