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My wife has since moved into private duty, which is overall much better. The problem with private duty lies in getting set up with a patient who has wacked out family members. 
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| Originally posted by jennypie Well, if you're making the joke I think you're making...technically it isn't "wrong" to administer an analgesic anally. If the patient is vomiting, then rectally is the actually the best route. Well, provided there's no diarrhea.  |
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| Originally posted by Zoso My wife has since moved into private duty, which is overall much better. The problem with private duty lies in getting set up with a patient who has wacked out family members. |
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| Originally posted by Ian i just found summat that'll give you the shits (and giggles) - off topic but..... http://www.tranceaddict.com/forums/...threadid=345644 |
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| Originally posted by Fledz You're clearly not doing something right then. It may not always work but if that happens then you make it work, otherwise you fall in the 95% of people who can't make things happen. The other 5% make things happen and benefit both themselves and their employers. |
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| Originally posted by jennypie Shit no way! Well if I don't need her advice on this matter, I could certainly use the hook up when I'm done school, lolololol.  |
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| Originally posted by narcism um whistle blowers are never treated the right way, just go read up on that doctor in queensland that was killing all the patients and see what happened to the nurse that reported him..... |
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| Originally posted by fayraree tee hee hee check it out now (especially YOU PKC lol) |
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| Originally posted by Zewad how? its fact.. its not an opinion you probably disagree with the number 10 and the color blue.. im not trying to be a smart ass... although i am here, but still... |
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| Originally posted by pkcRAISTLIN why should i check it out? i posted some glorious poems in that thread and there's nothing new? |
haha, you're gonna have to give me something a little shorter/easier to rhyme with than "fayraree".
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| Originally posted by Fledz That's a fairly isolated case though. |
That's because the Aus nursing profession is a joke....
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| Originally posted by Fledz That's because the Aus nursing profession is a joke.... |
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| Originally posted by jennypie Uh, what? That's not true at all. Australia and Canada set the world standard. |
LOL
sorry.
*kicks fledz in the crotch*
Lmfao! I feel better now. 
So the administrator followed up on my accusation, and just as I suspected, the bitch denied it and made up some double talk bullshit to cover her ass. The shitty thing is that the administrator isn't a nurse, so she knows fuck all about best practice, etc. If she WAS a nurse, she'd know instantly that this woman is full of shit.
Anyway, I asked one of my teachers for advice and she told me to file a complaint with the College of Nurses, which I'm going to do.
Serious business.
Hey whoa, I meant in the way everything is handled. The industry may be good (and it is) but the way the nurses are treated and the way they are underpaid is not.
Yes I know that conflicts with what I said earlier but my other statements were more general. As someone who is also in the medical/science profession, I know how bad it can get. Plus my mom was a nurse for 15 years
So take that crotch kick back! 
Too late!
*kicks Fledz in the crotch*
And newsflash: that's the way it's always been, and will probably always be with the nursing profession, no matter how well respected it is. It's a thankless job man, and if the majority of people who got into it did it solely for the money or whatever else....well you'd have a lot of shitty fucking nurses.
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| Originally posted by jennypie This was definitely NOT a mistake. It was an outright lie. I'll tell you what happened, for some context here. There is a resident who gets two kinds of insulin. Normal, or long acting (basically the one that keeps him stable), once a day in the morning, and then rapid acting as needed 4 times a day. Well when I got to work on Sunday morning, the nurse informed me that his blood sugar was very high, and that he had a standing order for 2 doses of rapid insulin before I'd have to send him to the hospital. Now, normally the insulin is administered via an insulin pen into which cartridges of insulin go...but I noticed that the new order for this resident was in vial form (to be administered via syringe). So I mentioned this to the nurse, saying "Oh, I see that Soandso's N insulin gets administered with a needle...". Her response was, "Yes, but I've been giving him Otherresident's old N insulin". Which is mistake number one right there. It's the same insulin but it doesn't matter...we are absolutely NOT allowed to give other people's medications to someone else. So anyways, I checked the resident's blood sugar 45 minutes later and it was still high, so I gave the first standing order. I checked again another 45 minutes later, and it had only gone down by .2, so I gave the other standing order. I checked again another 45 minutes later, and his blood sugar had actually gone UP! I knew something was totally fucking wrong (duh), so after I called the ambulance, etc. I went back to the nurse's office and looked for the N insulin that this nurse said she gave him. WELL. First off, there was no insulin pen in the fridge loaded with N insulin. Second, none of the insulin pens we had in the nursing office even fit the cartridges of N insulin. Third, the vial of insulin that was actually prescribed for him hadn't even been opened yet. Which means it hadn't been used....in THREE days (from the time it was delivered from pharmacy). So yeah, I was pretty fucking pissed...because she plain LIED to me about giving insulin. It also means that the other student nurse lied in his documentation as well (they both signed for giving this med). Anyways...I'm pretty positive about this. I checked everywhere for other insulin and found nothing, cause I didn't want to just go accusing people or whatever. And, the other thing...my work is not regulated. So yes, they WOULD fuck me over for something like this...because it will ultimately come back to the administrator, and she would never do anything to jeopardize the money coming in. The administrator is the one I wrote the letter to...but I guarantee she's not going to do anything about for reasons stated above. Especially since the medications were signed for. Would be my word against theirs. *sigh* Anyways, yeah I don't care in the long run. Cause if the resident's family chooses to investigate this, I covered my ass. |
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| Originally posted by StereoPrincess that's fucked up. i wonder what worse things happen? |
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| Originally posted by jennypie Hard to say, especially in an unregulated place. I'd like to say these kind of things don't happen under the College of Nurses' jurisdiction, but I'm sure they do. |
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