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1. IV air bubble compensation

   barbshortt replied to JL123's topic in General Nursing

   of course, you cannot use daytonite's method when you are running chemo through an IV line....you can either pull the air out into a syringe, or push the air back up into the bag with compatible fluid (NS or D5W, depending on the chemo).

2. Anybody buy their own private insurance?

   barbshortt replied to 777RNThatsMe's topic in General Nursing

   Done a lot of research on the liability insurance issue, and took a poll where I work and only 5% of the RN's had medical mal insurance. i arranges for a malpractice attorney to speak at our monthly nursing meeting,and she pointed out a couple of int...

3. new mexico travel anyone

   barbshortt replied to rngold's topic in Travel

   The RN's at Presbyterian do not wear all white - they wear white tops, and royal blue pants. Each department has different color requirements as to differentiate caregiver roles.

4. Question on blood draws and BP with bilateral mastectomies and single.

   barbshortt replied to cafecreme's topic in Oncology

   On a double mastectomy pt, we always do blood pressures on the calf of the leg. In our institution, almost all breast cancer chemo pts have a port, so we are able to do blood draws through the port. In the case of a double mastectomy, I can't imagin...

5. Nursing at Disneyland

   barbshortt replied to ManEnough's topic in California

   Actually, I was a pt at Disneyland once a few years ago. I had a bad case of food poisoning (not contracted at D'Land, by the way), and I had thought I would be able to make it through the day. Shortly after arriving at the park, I nearly collapsed a...

6. Protocol for checking continous infusion chemo-- what do you do?

   barbshortt replied to LikesToSwim's topic in Oncology

   We use elastometric infusers which sound similar to what you are describing - they do not look like baby bottles, but are continuous infsion "balls" which are gravity-fed (either 2ml/hr or 5ml/hr) continuous infusion devices which we send pts home wi...

7. New Nurses in England: Many Unemployed

   barbshortt replied to nyforlove's topic in General Nursing

   I am a U.S. RN who worked in England (London) 1999-2002 (my husband's job took us there). Nine of ten nurses in London were foreign-trained (mostly Malaysian, Australian, New Zealanders, South African....I was the only American in either of the 2 pla...

8. Line set-up for Chemo

   barbshortt replied to bonodonnaonaroll's topic in Oncology

   Julie, In our setting, we mostly use a primary/secondary set-up for most chemo tx, with the secondary set-up being the chemo. However, for those infusions that often cause reactions (taxol, rituxan, erbitux, herceptin), I run it in on a second primar...

9. I Need To Talk To Someone About Excelsior

   barbshortt replied to Born2BAnurse's topic in Online Learning

   I'm afraid I came across (in my above post) as not appreciating the education I got at excelsior. Sorry if that is the case - I actually think my education was better than most of the RN's I work with. Since the exams are so comprehensive, and not wo...

10. I Need To Talk To Someone About Excelsior

    barbshortt replied to Born2BAnurse's topic in Online Learning

    I got my ADN through Excelsior in 1998. I think it was a difficult way to get an RN, as it required alot of discipline to keep at the books, while working fulltime. I will admit that I do feel that I was shortchanged on clinical time - there are defi...

11. about the bird flu......

    barbshortt replied to jrring1019's topic in General Nursing

    Multicollinarity- You are absolutely right - the cytokine storm is the most dangerous outcome of this avian flu (H5N1) and the 1918 pandemic (which was simialr in structure to H5N1, but not exact). Currently, this virus is not able to be transmitted ...