RDH-RN

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1. Bedside to insurance company?

   RDH-RN replied to RDH-RN's topic in Nursing Career

   It's funny - I have never and would never consider that term applicable to anyone else, just to myself. If it read like I was slighting non-bedside nurses, that wasn't at all my intent. I've had...

2. Bedside to insurance company?

   RDH-RN posted a topic in Nursing Career

   Hello - For those if you that transitioned from bedside to insurance company, how did you deal with feeling like you weren't a "real" nurse? Or did you not? I'm being faced with this...

3. Heparin bolus administration

   RDH-RN replied to RDH-RN's topic in Patient Medications

   This is old, but I've just gotten back on here. It was clear. That was kind of my point. But, I was a brand new nurse with a bully for a preceptor who no one wanted to go up against. There were...

4. Heparin bolus administration

   RDH-RN replied to RDH-RN's topic in Patient Medications

   Oh, no, not four syringes--4 "units" of Heparin, as in, pull in enough Heparin into the syringe so that it hits the "4unit" mark on the syringe. I asked her to show me the math on how she was getting...

5. Heparin bolus administration

   RDH-RN replied to RDH-RN's topic in Patient Medications

   Thanks so much for the responses...I thought she was nuts, too! I'm a newbie on a med-surg floor, and even though "we rarely ever get Heparin drips" I've had two to deal with in the 3 months I've...

6. Heparin bolus administration

   RDH-RN posted a topic in Patient Medications

   When giving a Heparin bolus, and the vial is 10,000 units/10mL (1000units/mL concentration), and the bolus is to be for 4000units, would you not draw 4mL into a syringe and give it IVP? (This is the...