Y2KRN

Hello, Happy Turkey Day to all!! I was wondering if any of you use a faxed report system at your hospital?? We are really having a hard time moving patients. We have a rapid admissions unit however when that gets full, we are sol. We are going to...

Hello Everyone, Just wondering what is the largest dose of Dilaudid you have given IV push??? I know that it is usually 1-2mg but, have you seen it ordered and pushed in greater doses?? Thanks for your time. Y2KRN

Hello Peds nurses, I have got a question for you! My son has been vomiting since Sunday morning. He had a fever of about 101.1, could not keep fluids down. I thought it was the flu, so I gave him lots of tlc and fluids every hour ( even though he ...

Hello, This thread is close to my heart and I can see both sides of the story. I started an ADN nursing program when I was six months pregnant with my second child. I found out I was pregnant two days before I found out that I was accepted to the ...

Hello, I just wanted to say that I know an ER nurse who got accepted into CRNA School without ICU experience. I personally have never worked ICU. However, the school he applied at was impressed with the drips we did in the ER, the conscious sedatio...

Hello, I can tell you that I went to the ED after working the floor for only a year. I went to the floor because that is what I was encouraged to do. I hated the floor, and I love the ED. I must tell you going to the ED was a big learning curve,...

I say bring on the vit. H IV preferred!!! However any route will do!! Y2KRN

Hello, I just wanted to tell you that my thoughts and prayers are with you!! You have received good advice here and you are definately on the right track. It is soo hard to be a young single mother, I was raised by one! I am soo proud of my mother...

Hello, My son is six and a half years old. He had a bowel movement on Saturday nov.15th. His x-ray showed that he was " full of stool" as the DR. nurse said. They did not do any lab work just the x-ray of his abdomen. They also checked his blood...

Hey Speculating, That was a lot of extra work but, sounds like the outcome was well worth it for the child!!! You did the right thing!! I wish I could have had the warm fuzzies after my situation. I know I did the right thing for the little boys, ...

Hello Fellow ER nurses, I just have to vent!!! I am soo tired of the abuse we take as ER nurses. Here is the scenario, just happened on my last shift! Come in get report, have a patient little boy, six up for discharge after his bolus of fluids a...

Hey, Our ED sees 82,000 a year has 40 beds and 10 fast care beds. Six Trauma rooms and nooooo staff. Y2KRN

Hello, I am soo sorry to hear about your plight, and I think that taking responsibility for your actions is very commendable. I am an ER nurse and I once had a patient that I would not discharge because I gave him narcotics and he did not have a ri...

Hello guys, I was just wondering if anyone knows if the risk is high for pseudomonas infection in urine after an in and out cath of an infant???? I have been searching the web and nursing books for answers and I cannot find anything that says that a...

Hello, Can empathize with and feel your pain!!!!!!! Husband was a sub-mariner for first 5 yrs of our marriage. Six month madatory deployments, and travel overseas while on shore duty. I was in nursing shcool when he went to England for three weeks...

ER Nurse here, I consider myself very flexible, not much gets to me. I will change to overfilled needle box, get more gloves, hang another IV bag, when I come on and the bag is dry. Will get the urine that has not been gotten in the 8 hours previou...

Hello Kats, I started out as a surgical tech, thought that I would go straight into nursing school from there. I ended up being a surgical technician for ten years. The money was okay and I got to do a lot of traveling, got married etc, etc. I we...

I think that your nurse was proably very qualified, however, I could understand her not wanting to let you fly because she was so unfamiliar with the place herself. Believe me I was in your shoes not too very long ago and you will get plenty opport...

I say have a party on the 9th and label it " Ding Dong the Witch is Dead" party!!!!!!!!! She doesn't sound as though she even deserves as much as a good riddens!!! Y2KRN

I also believe that it is night shift hands down. I have worked days and eves. Days seems in my experience to have the least amount of team work. Eves are great but, overwhelmed most of the time, you don't see anyone because you are soo soo busy, ...

Hello, I was just wondering if anyone knows anything about the Atkins diet??? I have been hearing good things about it again, and I was thinking of trying it. I have never been on a diet before but, I cannot stand myself any longer and have to do ...

Welcome!!! Look forward to seeing you around!!! Y2KRN

Had a Doc that would write TSTL too stupid to live, or on the discharge orders would write OTDDTR out the door and down the road. He would also put on drunks charts do not drink alcohol ever again, consuming alcohol can cause death. Y2KRN

Way to go! Congratulations, welcome to the profession. Happy Holiday's! Y2KRN

Hello ernurse728, I think that they are still working out the details of this new system. We got a memo stating that we call the floor and alert the unit clerk that we are going to be faxing report on the patient going into 420. Then we fax report,...