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If you have a patient that is on hospice crisis care and they pass, do you remove the Foley and IV before calling mourge?? also so what steps does your facility take after someone dies?

Ok so I recently started working at ltc, and came across an order to irrigate a suprapubic catheter with 60 cc of sterile water. So I was wondering about that and in nursing school they had a syringe with sw in it already, my facility has a bulb syri...

Can someone please explain how to irrigate a Supra pubic catheter with a BULB syringe? Are you supposed to squeeze the bulb and leave it in there or squeeze it and let it come back?

Just started working in an LTC as LPN, was wondering WHEN to call the Dr/ON CALL I understand some things include: (that i can think of) lab results(abnormal) xray results??? (not sure) (fax or leave in book)? change in status.. a fall? pt. or famil...

I am currently studying for the NCLEX and using the Saunders comprehensive review, i came across this question....... A client with atrial fibrillation who is receiving maintenance therapy with warfarin sodium (Coumadin) has a prothrombin time (PT) o...