TM84

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1. Max dose for humalog?

   TM84 replied to Michelle King's topic in Patient Medications

   Standard protocol for fast acting insulin like this or Novorapid is 30 minutes before eating - it stops the post-prandial rise where the glucose is in the blood stream, but the insulin hasn't had time...

2. Dumbest thing a doctor has done/said to you

   TM84 replied to WorriedNurse25's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

   This happened a few years ago, I wasn't a nurse, but I was the mother of a paediatric patient with Type 1 Diabetes. My son was diagnosed at 2, and this was about 6 months later, our first...

3. why do many MAs and CNAs call themselves nurses?

   TM84 replied to murseforever's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

   I realise that, as I also realise that most of the nurses on this forum are probably from America. I was asking for an explanation of them so I could understand what they were talking about and their...

4. why do many MAs and CNAs call themselves nurses?

   TM84 replied to murseforever's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

   Here in New Zealand, if you call yourself a nurse and you aren't, you get in quite a bit of trouble - from Nursing Council etc. Even as a student nurse, you have to fully identify yourself as a...