I currently work in float pool as a post partum RN between 4 different hospitals within the same company and all within a major metropolitan area. The biggest hospital has an OB hosptalist and a neonatologist/neonatal NP present in house at all time...
LnDPPRN replied to menoogdawb's topic in New Nurse
Your preceptor was ultimately responsible for your patients if something went wrong, so for you to get in trouble for telling her about when you give PRN BP meds is beyond me. If you can't tell or ask her anything, why were you even on orientation? ...
Something has been bugging me. I've been working in Post Partum. I have orders for all kinds of PRN meds for pain, heart burn, itching, constipation, etc. One thing that I rarely see ordered PRN is utero-tonic medications such as pitocin, cytotec...