SolosGirl

I follow you as relief. You seem to think I am not going to look back and compare or....as its known in Nursey World.....ASSESS whether a treatment or regimen is effective over time?? G*#^#%#&#ned right I check your charting. The fact that you ar...

Something you aren't mentioning. The hourly pay is $22-26/hr. The average rent is >$1000/mo for a decent 2 br without having to commute an hour each way through the worst traffic you've seen since....L.A. Raleigh traffic is a nightmare---and if ...

I understand your argument. There is also another side to it, that I believe is legitimate. "Practicing Outside Your Scope". Nurses in my ER do it all the time. They pull something and then tell the resident what they did--and the resident orders the...

what? Are you actually a nurse? There are the Six Rights of Medication Administration. This is what we're talking about. 1. right route 2. right time 3. right patient 4. right medication 5. right dosage 6. right documentation Patients have these ri...

I was gonna say---"reading the label" is also another function that is to be used in medication administration safety checks.

It's been studied and documented to a ridiculous degree that cannabanoids not only decrease gastric secretions, but they also inhibit peristalsis: "Cannabinoids inhibit electrically evoked contractions of isolated small intestine The ability of canna...

Cannabanoid hyperemesis is not rare. I've seen it almost every day in the one teensy 30 bed ER I work in---and the users are insanely adamant that "marijuana eases nausea!!!!! idiot!!!". It's been the only time I've seen stoners become unhinged---whe...

I agree, but there are a lot of other reasons I am leaving after my residency is through. Not Nursing per se, but definitely the department I oriented to, the "hospital life" and the geographical area (see Chiro's response for this one) NETY is alive...