Final post.
I only joined to try and get nurses to give full doses of IV Antibiotics. It seems to have been a waste of my time, so "fair the well" my friends.
The IV ebooks will remain available. Please email me if you hear of a meaningful survey.
No wonder Currys are doing so badly. They're stuck in the 1980s. I could not buy a Fridge from the USA with my US credit card and US address for delivery a couple days after we arrived in the UK. Result: Currys lost over 4K pounds business from us for TVs etc.
Last few days to copy website info. It goes dark on the 19th. https://t.co/V3JmtdLi9l for how to give full doses of IV antibiotics. (96 percent of nurses don't!)
As I've retired from nursing after 45 years, I'll also be retiring my website https://t.co/V3JmtdLPYT
No one seems interested in giving full doses of IV antibiotics anyway, so let the septic patients drift off to the next life.
he he, no work Monday.
@artayyeb @UCLANursing@RJLuceroUCLA@UCLA@Drlinzhan ah, but are the nurses giving 100 percent of IV antibiotics. Doubtful. 96 percent of those that I've watched fail. They leave the Iv tubing full of antibiotic, which is 50 percent of the dose when it's in 50 CCs.
I ran a pleasant 6 times 600 meters a bit quicker than 15 minute race pace yesterday. They each took one minute longer than 40 years ago! I also have the convenience of running 2/3rds of my old distance in a given time. 2 miles in 15 minutes instead of 3. Keeps the math easy.
@bananabagbabe Not a requirement for med-surg. Usually a requirement for Tele and above, though I worked a tele where few were certified.
Practicing the skills with a 4 hour "in-betweener" would be a nice compromise to help BLS people be less intimidated by ACLS, but I've never seen it put on.
@360WiSE So, see if you can get half of your followers to watch an RN give IV antibiotics. Over 90 percent of them will program the IV pump to get less than 50 percent of the dose. (if from a 50 milliliter bag).
@DoeKley_RN_MPH Apple device (or similar), netflix and youtube gives plenty of material. Still need that annoying internet connection of course, and the patience to set them up.
@magenta173 I guess a sample size of 50, of which only 2 RNs gave the full dose of IV antibiotics gets no credit. I've watched them, but I'm not after a a PhD, so no one is doing anything about it. Oh well, I'll let the website die in a year, just like their patients.
@marionleary When you're done with those, and healthy, take a look at my website. Innovate the heck out of getting nurses to be competent at giving IV drugs.
@RobertaLavin@AonL@ANANursingWorld@AAN_Nursing All of them, because none of them are interested in teaching nursing. They refuse to acknowledge that 96 percent of RNs only give half the dose of IV antibiotics; will not survey to check my numbers; decline articles showing how it is that nurses are making this IVPB mistake.
The Bacterial Infection study from India gives no indication that RNs were watched to see if they gave the full doses of IV antibiotics. One day, someone will study this, and find like I did, that 96 % of them only give half of the dose.
Check out our new study from #India๐ฎ๐ณ
describing the epidemiology of #sepsis and risk factors for mortality among critically ill pts.
https://t.co/Ae9O9t9vLp
A first. Pharmacy direction on how to give the full dose of IV antibiotics yesterday. Hope that Hospital also changed its IV policies and tested its RNs to:
"When using only one tubing, replace the empty IV bag with a 50 CC flush bag and program for the volume of the tubing."