LovingLife123

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1. Mandatory Overtime?

   LovingLife123 replied to guest1135744's topic in General Nursing

   When you work late, does it put you over 40 hours a week? If so, then it's considered overtime. If you are scheduled to work until 5 but are the late stay person, but don't stay and you...

2. EPIC and carrying out orders?

   LovingLife123 replied to Googlenurse's topic in General Nursing

   I acknowledge the orders so epic then puts my orders in their proper place. I don't do floor orders. I'm just acknowledging that I'm seeing them and I sort through what may or may not apply to me in...

3. Verbal order mistake

   LovingLife123 replied to Nurse4lifewithparrots's topic in General Nursing

   So, the cardiologist put a protocol in and just wanted the heparin to run at a set rate? Why didn't you just call pharmacy so they could call the cardiologist and confirm the rate? I really...

4. Documentation has ruined nursing

   LovingLife123 replied to delrionurse's topic in General Nursing

   I cannot agree with you more. People document too many unnecessary items and double

5. Heparin drip disaster

   LovingLife123 replied to Neuronurse88's topic in General Nursing

   With a patient being on 2 gtts and frequent labs, and being a difficult stick, I would have asked for a PICC line. You did the best you could. Also, your lab is ridiculous and I would have been...

6. Should RaDonda Vaught Have Her Nursing License Reinstated?

   LovingLife123 replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

   I hope she never gets her license back. She violated every safety measure that is in place to prevent this. Then left a patient after administering what she thought was a benzo IV. She didn't...

7. Dangers of open ICU?

   LovingLife123 replied to Aloe_sky's topic in General Nursing

   I worked in an ICU where different specialties admitted but the admitting provider was the primary. ICU was usually consulted. So, if I had conflicting orders from different specialties, I went to...

8. Misunderstanding in ER

   LovingLife123 replied to bluedreamerstu's topic in General Nursing

   They thought you were stepping out of the room. You were very vague about where you were going. You can't just leave the ER. You would have to have been discharged then come back and readmitted....

9. I Made A Serious Medication Error: Help!

   LovingLife123 replied to Hailey.B's topic in General Nursing

   Do people still draw baseline PTT when starting a heparin gtt? I thought that was old practice. On my old unit, we never did. They didn't care what your PTT was before starting. We drew one at the...

10. New grad to NP. Is it a mistake?

    LovingLife123 replied to Nursenick123's topic in General Nursing

    Yes, it's a mistake. There is not a ton of respect these days for NPs because they are all going to diploma mills and gave zero medical experience. There is much more respect for the nurse who...

11. Misunderstanding in ER

    LovingLife123 replied to bluedreamerstu's topic in General Nursing

    I feel like there's more to this. You told them that you were leaving the hospital to go and your son and they said OK? Or did you state I'm going to go and get my son and they presumed you meant...

12. Do you burp IV bag prior to putting pressure on it?

    LovingLife123 replied to Nurse Beth's topic in Career Advice Column

    I've given hundreds of fluids with a pressure and set up arterial lines daily. Never once have I burped a bag. Any air goes to the top of the

13. Do you burp IV bag prior to putting pressure on it?

    LovingLife123 replied to Nurse Beth's topic in Career Advice Column

    No, I've never burped a bag before putting a pressure bag on it. I spike, prime, then put a pressure bag on. Do people still burp IV

14. Access to medical records

    LovingLife123 replied to ApplePineApple's topic in General Nursing

    And the responses made by the OP here are why I'm glad I no longer have to deal with families. PACU is a glorious place to

15. Access to medical records

    LovingLife123 replied to ApplePineApple's topic in General Nursing

    You have to go through appropriate channels to get medical records. This was little hard for me to understand, but if you want medical records and are the POA you can go to the medical records office...