Please measure patients’ weights (for peds primarily) in kilograms, no pounds. I know we use pounds in lay-speak but ALL drug dosages are in mg/kilo so if you measure in pounds, you are inviting a screw up.  Potentially a dangerous screw up.
This was evidenced by a 22 kilo gram patient being weighed in pounds ( […]

The other evening it was “relatively slow” (meaning we were only about 5 patients behind) and several of us (RN’s, PA’s, Doc’s. and Techs) were sitting around in the Docs’ charting area making typically inappropriate comments to each other when suddenly, one of the PA’s was like “well, yeah, I agree with that…..wait, WTF, whose […]

I was surfing the web today ( I randomly have a bunch of days off in prep for my painful Thanksgiving weekend shifts), watching racing videos (I Love cars and racing -especially road racing and drag racing) and I found this video. This dood (in Nurse K-speak), is so lucky I bet he never […]

Despite frequent complaining about abusive and entitled patients, logistical problems, and other daily work frustrations, I really DO like my job. All it takes is one or two good cases or nice patients each shift to make me remember why I went into this.   The other day I went into see a patient that when I […]

Some people like surprises. Some people hate them -but after the initial excitement is over, they are still happy. Some surprises are just not a good idea and can result in some “problems” so to say. A particular example of this was exhibited to us recently. A woman came in with the […]

I fully expect to have a patient and or family break down when I tell them very bad news - like that someone has stage 4 cancer or a massive stroke. However, I don’t expect to have to nearly call the on-staff grief counsellor to help you get through the fact that your teenage son […]