tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6833607.post3873519238718793963..comments2023-06-14T03:36:55.988-07:00Comments on Head Nurse: The following communication will not be therapeutic.Johttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16520599099436383317noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6833607.post-51174480319517917362009-04-20T07:42:00.000-07:002009-04-20T07:42:00.000-07:00I deal with people like this all the time. I work ...I deal with people like this all the time. I work PACU so I'll frequently get patients that have been taking opioids for a while. The ones that really make me say "FML" are the methadone users. They will take enough IV stuff to kill a horse. I am not exaggerating one bit.<br /><br />And as far as Phenergan -- I LOVE it. A drug that makes them NOT puke and they also get really sedated/sleep and don't complain anymore? It's a really cool drug.Andrew, RNnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6833607.post-42159084001807030322009-04-08T10:10:00.000-07:002009-04-08T10:10:00.000-07:00Let me just say that I work in ortho. Not your reg...Let me just say that I work in ortho. Not your regular ortho. The ortho that usually cares for patients who have been implanted, explanted, implanted, explanted and on and on. Im wondering why the docs havent just fussed the bleepin joint already, and given the patient some modicum of a life. But I digress. All this implanting/explanting is what in the begining...painful. So, it starts off inocent enough, and before you know it, its oxycontin 120mg tid with oxycodone 20mg every 4 hours in between, and a fentanyl pain pump with clinitian doses. The line between breathing and not breathing is imperceptable because the patient is so tolorant. Not to mention coping skills by the patient that are sorely lacking. All topped off with the Jacho requirement of documenting and controlling pain. please.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6833607.post-81404784385656606702009-04-06T16:24:00.000-07:002009-04-06T16:24:00.000-07:00It's frustrating when we get pushed to the point w...It's frustrating when we get pushed to the point we have such a sarcastic defense mechanism.<BR/>I'm just as guilty... whew boy am I ever.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17633224487191573770noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6833607.post-66412281716102086762009-04-06T14:50:00.000-07:002009-04-06T14:50:00.000-07:00Yes, I hate Phenergan with a passion after we had ...Yes, I hate Phenergan with a passion after we had to have it on hand for a guy who got it--get this--PRN.<BR/><BR/>Oh, I just wanted to kill the docs...and he was snowed all the time. Probably explains why his arse would look like a roadmap by the time we got the crater in the middle healed.<BR/><BR/>Thank goodness we got him out alive. He's now bugging people closer to his home and family.RehabNursehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02695247141022093754noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6833607.post-54594786776669808312009-04-05T21:57:00.000-07:002009-04-05T21:57:00.000-07:00Man, that amount of opiates would kill me dead. ...Man, that amount of opiates would kill me dead. Amazing how zofran doesn't seem to work as well as phergen for these drug seekers?Crazed Nitwithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09433413927453925851noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6833607.post-64426177889600799592009-04-05T05:22:00.000-07:002009-04-05T05:22:00.000-07:00I hear ya. Seems like we get one of these patient'...I hear ya. Seems like we get one of these patient's every month....you cannot ever get them "comfortable", pain is always a 7 on a 0-10 scale. But, next door, in the room next to him will be somebody who just had open heart, with chest tubes and kabillion lines...who doesn't want anything for pain. Go figure.GingerJarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18264306220362474678noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6833607.post-248981390608067062009-04-04T19:44:00.000-07:002009-04-04T19:44:00.000-07:00I think ao.MomI think ao.<BR/><BR/>MomAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6833607.post-41540703784799709412009-04-04T19:25:00.000-07:002009-04-04T19:25:00.000-07:00How is this person even alive?How is this person even alive?Penny Mitchellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13154829540938334107noreply@blogger.com