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  1. Bedside to insurance company?

    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 coworkers make the transition, and they all expressed f...
  2. 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 possibility due to health issues (post COVID syndrome) an...
  3. Heparin bolus administration

    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 3 other nurses in the nurses station that listened...
  4. Heparin bolus administration

    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 4 and not 4000...she kept going back to the 100uni...
  5. Heparin bolus administration

    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 been there...everyone else seems as confused and nerv...
  6. Heparin bolus administration

    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 bolus that precedes an infusion with a bag that is ...