I fired a nurse when he said to another nurse, in the hallway, I'd like to **** you. I mean seriously?! Why would anyone think that was OK? He acted like she should take it as a compliment.
I fired a nurse when he said to another nurse, in the hallway, I'd like to **** you. I mean seriously?! Why would anyone think that was OK? He acted like she should take it as a compliment.
Not something I ever thought a nurse would have to tell a coworker, but a patient; Please don't drink your own urine, or at least if you do please keep track of the volume. Which then sparked an interesting discussion of how you would chart output that then becomes intake.
OMG..... just spit out my iced coffee.. thank you for this! ?
I’ve seen a nurse with 45 years’ experience do that. I was horrified, but as a brand-new nurse I was too intimidated to confront her about it. So I took the coward’s way out and told our supervisor, who I’m assuming did talk to her because I never saw her do it again. Now, of course, I would have ZERO qualms about approaching her no matter how long she’d been a nurse. Too soon old, too late smart!
I worked with a nurse, years of experience, who would uncap and RECAP needles in her teeth; she said she was trained that way.
Well theoretically speaking urine is sterile as it leaves The body and can be consumed in survival situations
Actually........once urine passes through the outer parts of your urethra it is no longer sterile and would contain multiple types of bacteria you wouldn't want introduced into your GI tract. Secondly, drinking urine would be essentially like drinking sea water and would be a terrible idea in a survival situation and accelerate dehydration and probably your death. There's a lot of info out there on this.
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On 2/4/2022 at 11:25 AM, Kitiger said:
If you need 9 pills to get the right dose . . . you don't have the right dose.
I encountered an exception fairly recently.
Patient had intractable pain and was recieving 20mg methadone (4 tablets) Q3 on a titration dose. Not sure what its like in other countries but methadone only comes in a 5mg tablet.
When the doctor added in a BD dose, which turned out to be roughly 55mg. We tried to give via eilxer (10mg/1ml) however patient couldnt tolerate the taste. In the end patient was taking 11 pills per BD dose and 4 tabs per q3PRN
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I fired a nurse when he said to another nurse, in the hallway, I'd like to **** you. I mean seriously?! Why would anyone think that was OK? He acted like she should take it as a compliment.