Wuzzie

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    IV Push Ativan

    Wuzzie replied to Nurse Nonnie RN's topic in General Nursing

    Ativan Injection
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    Stuck myself with a subcutaneous needles after giving pt heparin injection

    Wuzzie replied to Starburst's topic in General Nursing

    What in the H-E-Double hockey sticks are they telling you in nursing school? I have worked in some pretty toxic environments but in nearly 40 years of doing this have never heard anyone being...
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    Got An Offer For Dayshift But Was Asked To Work Nightshift

    Wuzzie replied to yoon519's topic in General Nursing

    It's called a "bait and switch" and is a known tactic in hospitals. If you agree to do it there is a good chance you won't get switched back to days. If you need the job you can try getting in writing...
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    Understanding Delirium in the Hospitalized Older Adult

    Wuzzie replied to Kim Valentine's topic in General Nursing

    Managing delirium in the hospital setting presents its challenges but managing it at home is a nightmare. I’m dealing with this right now. My mother swings from perfectly normal to confused,...
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    Career over family?

    Wuzzie replied to Sharmilagrg00's topic in General Nursing

    I sure as heck hope he has an awesome job waiting for him wherever he wants you to move. Otherwise, you're in the same situation just with different
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    RaDonda Vaught Update - State Health Officials Reverse Decision and File Medical Disciplinary Charges

    Wuzzie replied to tnbutterfly - Mary's topic in Nursing News

    Have you read the TBI and CMS report? Watched the video of the TBN hearing? There WERE safeguards. She ignored them...including looking at the actual
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    Anesthesiologist Group Says Hospitals Can Prevent Fatal Errors Like Vanderbilt's

    Wuzzie replied to sirI's topic in General Nursing

    I know that sounds like it makes sense but sometimes it’s needed for urgent reasons, not just intubation. The time it would take to do what you propose is not workable in those
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    HR and Employee

    Wuzzie replied to roxygirl2003's topic in General Nursing

    Attorney or union
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    Patient Died in ER lobby

    Wuzzie replied to Kitiger's topic in General Nursing

    I've seen it too but unlike in the past this time it really isn't a shortage of available nurses as much as a shortage of nurses willing to continue to take the crap being dished out to them plus the...
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    Patient Died in ER lobby

    Wuzzie replied to Kitiger's topic in General Nursing

    Susie, we are usually on the same page but I find it interesting that you, as a provider yourself, gave the “stressed provider” a pass but pegged the nurse as unpleasant and spoke of the need for...
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    Fix Staffing Ratios by Monetizing the Value of Nurses

    Wuzzie replied to LeChele Mack's topic in General Nursing

    Oh I’m plenty old enough to remember those (?) but I still think if we were billed as a separate specialty (which we are) we would be seen as an income generator not an expense and hospitals would...
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    Fix Staffing Ratios by Monetizing the Value of Nurses

    Wuzzie replied to LeChele Mack's topic in General Nursing

    I think I wasn't clear. I didn't mean individually I meant as a department. For example, where I work if a patient is seen by a dietician they get billed a fee for that visit which is just a generic...
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    Fix Staffing Ratios by Monetizing the Value of Nurses

    Wuzzie replied to LeChele Mack's topic in General Nursing

    You can bet the farm that if we were billed for like every single other provider the staffing issues would go "poof"! Sadly right now we are billed with the
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    Patient Died in ER lobby

    Wuzzie replied to Kitiger's topic in General Nursing

    The hospital's spin on it is gross but the truth of the matter is this is going on pretty much everywhere. Not the dying in the lobby thing but EDs full of admitted patient who have no bed to be moved...
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    Oklahoma Hospital Shooting

    Wuzzie replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    Tying Medicare reimbursment to patient satisfaction scores had a major hand in this
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    Anesthesiologist Group Says Hospitals Can Prevent Fatal Errors Like Vanderbilt's

    Wuzzie replied to sirI's topic in General Nursing

    The ironic thing is early on in the discussion about this incident people were saying that more warnings were needed to prevent this. I guess the first 10 weren’t enough. If only they had had 11. ?...
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    Multiple Drip Management tips/tricks

    Wuzzie replied to Sarah_Michelle2887's topic in General Nursing

    I worked PICU and experienced the same when it came to numbers of drips (add Potassium/Calcium/Sidenafil/Lasix among other things to that as well). The way we managed it is when it was time to change...
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    Multiple Drip Management tips/tricks

    Wuzzie replied to Sarah_Michelle2887's topic in General Nursing

    Stopcock
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    RaDonda Vaught - What is she doing now?

    Wuzzie replied to tnbutterfly - Mary's topic in General Nursing

    I disagree with this. They are, of course, to be blamed for their coverup but they did not make RV ignore the safe medication administration practices she was taught, nor the warnings on the Accudose...
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    RaDonda Vaught - What is she doing now?

    Wuzzie replied to tnbutterfly - Mary's topic in General Nursing

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    RaDonda Vaught - What is she doing now?

    Wuzzie replied to tnbutterfly - Mary's topic in General Nursing

    This ^ @kbrn2002 you said it so mych more elegantly than I have been able
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    RaDonda Vaught - What is she doing now?

    Wuzzie replied to tnbutterfly - Mary's topic in General Nursing

    Please tell me how the SYSTEM forced her to not even read the
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    RaDonda Vaught - What is she doing now?

    Wuzzie replied to tnbutterfly - Mary's topic in General Nursing

    If she wanted to be left alone she wouldn't be on
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    RaDonda Vaught - What is she doing now?

    Wuzzie replied to tnbutterfly - Mary's topic in General Nursing

    ^This, a thousand times this. I keep hearing all this misinformation and it's making me nuts. "She was floating and in an unfamiliar unit". Nope, she was an extra nurse on her very own unit. "They...
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    Radonda Vaught Sentenced

    Wuzzie replied to tnbutterfly - Mary's topic in General Nursing

    It makes me