What did you learn today as a nurse?

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Greetings fellow nurses, I thought it would be interesting to have nurses tell what we have learned at our place of work in the course of our shift....

Yesterday I learned that 2 nurses should indeed check a heparin drip calculation upon learning the PTT as our facilities protocol states! If not...yikes and well just one wrong calculation not caught will throw off the rest of the calcs!!! and NOT good for the pt and could possibly lead to some serious problems...GI BLEED:uhoh21: :nono: And since I am an LPN I usually am not too involved but an RN kindly gave me an inservice on how to follow protocol, which is pretty self explanatory on the paperwork provided by the hosp. and WHY it needs to be followed EXACTLY!!!

Specializes in Orthosurgery, Rehab, Homecare.

I helped a patient with a urinal and learned that he had a "dicky do" problem. His tummy sticks out more than his dicky do. (Yes the patient actually told me this. He's hilarious.) So if you've ever needed a label for that condition. . . . :lol2:

~Jen

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I learned that God is most precious and allnurses.com is the place to be.

I agre with that

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That sometimes a confused person can make alot of sense! Now what does that say about me :nurse:

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Specializes in ICU.

Well, this happened a couple days ago, but we gave our very first shots at clinicals. We did a glucose reading and then gave insulin shots to the same patients. We were so excited!

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