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  1. Treating Respiratory Failure With Ativan/Lorazapam

    shellyscorner posted a topic in Patient Safety Issues

    So, as a new member to this forum, please forgive me if as a student nurse, I have posted in an inappropriate place. Okay, I saw something done the other day that made me really uncomfortable. And I'd...

  2. Exact difference between comfort measures & hospice?

    shellyscorner replied to payang0722's topic in Hospice, Palliative

    Yup ... Don't I feel silly! I actually saw that .. but NOT until AFTER I'd already posted my question! It's a shame too. I sounded like it had some really good

  3. Exact difference between comfort measures & hospice?

    shellyscorner replied to payang0722's topic in Hospice, Palliative

    Hey nurseprnRN! The link you provided didn't work: "this is a really nice little site with pdf worksheets for different diagnoses..." 404 Error - Page Not Found I'm wondering if there was an error in...

  4. Non-pitting edema and rating

    shellyscorner replied to clearblue3's topic in General Nursing

    I don't understand HOW you can rate something that you can't OBJECTIVELY measure ... (I've never heard of rating NONpitting edema... which of course does NOT mean that it can't be or isn't done... It...

  5. Being called an idiot

    shellyscorner replied to historylovinglpn's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Yeah, my observations have been that a male nurse might be able to get away with that, but a female nurse, . . . not as likely. .

  6. Being called an idiot

    shellyscorner replied to historylovinglpn's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Actually, I think it may have more to do with the "God Complex" that so many of them seem to

  7. Being called an idiot

    shellyscorner replied to historylovinglpn's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I guess a poor excuse is better than

  8. Being called an idiot

    shellyscorner replied to historylovinglpn's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    HA-HA!!! That's

  9. Treating Respiratory Failure With Ativan/Lorazapam

    shellyscorner replied to shellyscorner's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    Oh MAN! A pop quiz!?! Holy Cow! And not just a pop quiz, but a PUBLIC pop quiz! Okay . . . I'll try to represent . . . (What'cha bet I NEVER forget the answers!?!) I assume (bad thing to be doing!)...

  10. Is this common?

    shellyscorner replied to pepino23's topic in General Nursing

    Oh! Ouch! That doesn't seem fair. There is a difference between specialty and super-sonic subspecialty. But hey, I'm just a student. What do I

  11. Treating Respiratory Failure With Ativan/Lorazapam

    shellyscorner replied to shellyscorner's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    As to the boundaries, I can't say that you might not have a point. I certainly need to give that some thought. I know I certainly FELT for her. But beyond that, I really hadn't thought through it,...

  12. Treating Respiratory Failure With Ativan/Lorazapam

    shellyscorner replied to shellyscorner's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    "THANKS!!!! I'll check it out for sure! But your right . . . I SHOULD have thought of that . . . after I hit "Post Comment" I promise I WILL check it out! Thanks much for the tip~ I REALLY do...

  13. Treating Respiratory Failure With Ativan/Lorazapam

    shellyscorner replied to shellyscorner's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    Wow! Ok, good to know . . . I've just not had much experience with patients on Ativan, at all. In a previous post I commented back to someone and said: ". . . it was the amount that concerned...

  14. Treating Respiratory Failure With Ativan/Lorazapam

    shellyscorner replied to shellyscorner's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    THANKS!!!! I'll check it out for sure! But your right . . . I SHOULD have thought of that . . . after I hit "Post Comment" I promise I WILL check it out! Thanks much for the tip~ I REALLY do...

  15. Treating Respiratory Failure With Ativan/Lorazapam

    shellyscorner replied to shellyscorner's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    That's a little scary. Doesn't that put the patient on a pretty slippery slope? It seems to me that in a patient that was having trouble getting diagnosed to begin with, that that could really be...

  16. Treating Respiratory Failure With Ativan/Lorazapam

    shellyscorner replied to shellyscorner's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    I'm sorry you feel that way. But no,that's not correct. And yes, your right! That would violate the TOS! Frankly, I didn't have a PDR at

  17. Treating Respiratory Failure With Ativan/Lorazapam

    shellyscorner replied to shellyscorner's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    Not that I'm the one to make the judgement here, I REALLY recognize that, but it wasn't that the drug in and of it's self worried me, it was the amount that concerned me. It just seemed like so much....

  18. Treating Respiratory Failure With Ativan/Lorazapam

    shellyscorner replied to shellyscorner's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    Sorry! Wasn't sure what you guys did and didn't need to know to help me understand what I was

  19. Am I wrong from refusing to help a friend?

    shellyscorner replied to Neywel120's topic in General Students

    Okay, so first of all, I'd like to suggest to you that you reconsider this particular part of your thought process. I'd like to see you re-name your feeling labeled "guilty" with "empathize" or...

  20. Re: Treating Resp. Fail. with Ativan

    shellyscorner posted a topic in General Nursing

    Jul 20 by traumaRUs, MSN, APRN, CNS Admin Hi - I'm concerned that you have a lot of pt identifiers in your recent post about the female with resp distress..would you be okay if I edited it? Thanks....

  21. Nurse suicide follows infant tragedy

    shellyscorner replied to babyNP.'s topic in Nursing News

    I've re-read this MULTIPLE ways, MULTIPLE times. Each time, I have the SAME takeaway! The takeaway is that NO ONE above Ms. Hiatt from the ICU Director right on up to the upper echelon of the hospital...