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  1. Deciding what to give to the patient who gets everything

    Birdy2 replied to Birdy2's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    The pt had the flu and pneumonia but was in fact a pain mgmt pt and her pain mgmt dr prescribed those things. She had been getting her scheduled morphine and Ativan PO and then one person gave all of...

  2. Vancomycin rate question

    Birdy2 replied to Birdy2's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    Well I checked with pharmacy and they say run it at 250/he but coworkers say not to. My preceptor showed me to y it in above the pump like j said I have been doing, but I saw that someone else y'd it...

  3. Secondary and piggyback

    Birdy2 replied to Birdy2's topic in Patient Medications

    Kiszi, that answered my question. Thanks so much! I thought that's how it was, just got confused by something someone told me the other

  4. Secondary and piggyback

    Birdy2 posted a topic in Patient Medications

    This has been explained to me but I still keep getting confused. If a line is y'd in about the pump to the basic infusion is it runnjng first as a secondary and then the primary flushes after? And if...

  5. Getting cut short on orientation

    Birdy2 posted a topic in First Year After Licensure

    So as you all can see by my posts, I'm a new nurse. I have been working since November 10th. I just finished my 5th week and my boss just told me this week that after next week she will be letting me...

  6. Getting cut short on orientation

    Birdy2 replied to Birdy2's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Oh and it is a general med-surg

  7. Getting cut short on orientation

    Birdy2 replied to Birdy2's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Ya I agree. I told them it was harder when they switched my preceptors around every day. For a few weeks j had the same one almost every shift, then had 3 different ones my last week of orientation....

  8. Getting cut short on orientation

    Birdy2 replied to Birdy2's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Thanks so much sallyrnrrt! I did tell my preceptor that I didn't understand certain things and she said she would be happy to sit down with me and explain whatever I needed help understanding, but we...

  9. Getting cut short on orientation

    Birdy2 replied to Birdy2's topic in First Year After Licensure

    And every nurse always has 6 with at least one admission. That's what slows me down, new admits take me

  10. Getting cut short on orientation

    Birdy2 replied to Birdy2's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Thanks for the reassurance everybody. And there's no way I could get less patients. The floor I'm on is crazy busy. I'm just gonna do the best I can and hope I can get some help when I need it....

  11. Getting cut short on orientation

    Birdy2 replied to Birdy2's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I agree that when I've been with nurses who let me do it all I am much faster, but of course more

  12. Getting cut short on orientation

    Birdy2 replied to Birdy2's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I'm only gonna be working nights so different shifts won't be a problem. Im mostly worried about charting I'll have to do that I haven't done by myself yet. The nurse I've been working with likes to...

  13. Getting cut short on orientation

    Birdy2 replied to Birdy2's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Thanks everybody! I feel a little better about it knowing that some of you have done it with that little orientation. I had just been told by all my nursing friends to take every day of orientation I...

  14. Getting cut short on orientation

    Birdy2 replied to Birdy2's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Ya she asked me if I felt comfortable being on my own after next week and I said I think so and to give me until the end of that week to decide. It's just that everyone I work with is pressuring me...

  15. giving meds late when it's not in pixis

    Birdy2 posted a topic in Patient Medications

    So several times I've had a patient that needed a med, even important ones like BP and antidysrhythmics, and I couldn't give it because pharmacy hadn't sent it up yet. Well you know how on the emar...

  16. Heparin flush

    Birdy2 posted a topic in Patient Safety Issues

    I watched a nurse flush a PICC with heparin and then hook up antibiotics. What is the point in that? Isn't the flush supposed to be given when nothing else is running to prevent

  17. giving meds late when it's not in pixis

    Birdy2 replied to Birdy2's topic in Patient Medications

    This nurse was orienting me. She has worked there for 8 years and I've been told by everyone I can trust what she says. I was pretty upset myself when she told me I couldn't put that. I will be on my...

  18. giving meds late when it's not in pixis

    Birdy2 replied to Birdy2's topic in Patient Medications

    Ya I did that the first time and she got mad. I agree it isn't right and don't know who I could talk to about another option. I guess they aren't wanting to make pharmacy look bad but why don't they...

  19. giving meds late when it's not in pixis

    Birdy2 replied to Birdy2's topic in Patient Medications

    Well ya I was going to. I was gonna select the option hold and then in the text box write that. But I was told not to. Crazy if you ask me. I told her I was gonna talk to someone about this and she...

  20. Giving meds early/late

    Birdy2 replied to Birdy2's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    Thank you! I have talked to others since then and got yet another answer. This person said 1 h. They also mentioned that were really allowed to give prn pain meds 30 min early, which I didn't think...

  21. question about wasting

    Birdy2 posted a topic in Patient Medications

    Hey everybody. I am a new nurse, just started a job at the hospital about 3 weeks ago and I am still learning in orientation. Last night I had a patient who was going down, brought to my floor with no...

  22. When to flush

    Birdy2 posted a topic in Patient Safety Issues

    So I know you flush before and after giving a med if nothing's running and you pause the pump, clamp, flush, give med, and flush again if what you're giving is incompatible with what's runnjng. But do...

  23. When to flush

    Birdy2 replied to Birdy2's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    Canoehead, at what rate are you considering slow? I'm wondering if I could save time with my antibiotics that are supposed to be given over 3-5 minutes. Most of my patients have had rates of

  24. question about wasting

    Birdy2 replied to Birdy2's topic in Patient Medications

    Well I always empty my pockets before I leave. Our carts all have have the same code so anybody who's working could grab them out of there if they wanted and then it will be on me. I can't figure out...

  25. Heparin flush

    Birdy2 replied to Birdy2's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    Thanks!