When would you expect to see a Nitro drip started? I am working in a PCU where pts are experiencing active chest pain with increasing troponin levels and we aren’t starting drip (I know that they...
Hi everyone. I need some input. Today I was told I was getting an admit from the ED (no big deal). They had been hypotensive for over 3 hours after 2 boluses and by hypotensive I mean a Map of less...
It wasn't that I couldn't care for this patient. I've been a nurse a very long time. It was that they had given more than one bolus to increase blood pressure and it wasn't working. I never refused...
I was recently exposed to a patient that was tested positive for acid fast bacilli via bronchoscopy. I took care of that patient for 4 days in a row. Coughing constantly. I am a little freaked to...
I have traveled nursed for approximately the past 5 years and for the most part it hasn't been bad. Since traveling in the southern part of NC for the past year I am both emotionally drained and...
Just knowing this has happened to others, although terrible, is somewhat comforting. I have a lease on a house until May, then I am out and I will never look back. Thanks