bindikwan

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1. They want us to give drip meds on med/surg

   bindikwan posted a topic in Safety

   Hello fellow nurses, I need your input! I work for a large hospital system in Texas. Recently management rolled out a class that is mandatory for all nurses. It's called "Advancing Acute Care Nursing" and this class entails is teaching how to titrat...

2. What have you learned in nursing school that was utter nonsense?

   bindikwan replied to TheMiss's topic in General Nursing

   Not a textbook, instructor! lol

3. What have you learned in nursing school that was utter nonsense?

   bindikwan replied to TheMiss's topic in General Nursing

   I'm in nursing school and they taught us this in first semester. They called it "hospital corners" and we had to show we knew how to do it.

4. What have you learned in nursing school that was utter nonsense?

   bindikwan replied to TheMiss's topic in General Nursing

   I've heard something similar about draining the bladder too. Maybe we had the same professor? :) This is directly from my notes: "if you have to catheterize someone to drain urine, clamp after 600ml's and let the bladder adjust to have less and then...

5. For preceptors and students

   bindikwan posted a topic in General Students

   I've read a lot of posts on here talking about bad or lazy preceptors and I feel the need to say something to both my fellow students and the nurses who fill the precepting role. I've been very grateful to have two amazing preceptors who I work with ...

6. BP freak out

   bindikwan replied to bindikwan's topic in General Nursing

   Thank you! All very good points. We do have some patients with much higher parameters for their BP due to thrombotic stroke. I remember the first night I worked there I took a patient's BP and it was 200 hundred something so I ran straight to tell th...

7. BP freak out

   bindikwan posted a topic in General Nursing

   I've got a question but my background is I work nights as a CNA on a tele/stroke floor and I am also currently in nursing school. My question is this. I regularly work with a nurse who doesn't like to cover patient's BP meds, if its too high. Often ...