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Wonderful husband and three kids

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  1. Searching For A Conference

    hawks5 replied to VALENCIARN's topic in Radiology

    The next ARNA annual convention is March 2007 in Seattle, WA. ARNA has updated not only their website to include some new member forums, but also has revised the core curriculum (still costs $75). The American College of Radiology is an excellent re...

  2. blood thinners

    hawks5 replied to wendirn's topic in Radiology

    Evidence supports the use of vitamin K as referenced above. Rather than holding coumadin 3-5 days or starting Lovenox. We have patients hold coumadin the night before and then take a 5 or 10 mg po vit k, depending on their most recent PT/INR. Very...

  3. JCAHOs rules for contrast

    hawks5 replied to SWAT_RN's topic in Radiology

    The first step is to identify why this standard would be important in an outpatient imaging setting: 1. Risk for renal impairment 2. Risk for invasive procedures with patients on anti-coagulation etc... Those are two reasons why I can understand...

  4. Premedicating patients with contrast allergies?????

    hawks5 replied to Lori Ann's topic in Radiology

    We also created pre-printed scripts that can be called into a pharmacy or handed out at the front desk- (prednisone and benadryl). Another option is a quick prep (set of pre-printed orders) we do for add-on cases etc. with IV methyl-prednisone, benad...

  5. sedation help please!!!

    hawks5 replied to RadiologyRN's topic in Radiology

    RN's provide all of the Moderate Sedation in our Radiology Department with the exception of pediatric MRI Scans. All pedi MRI exams are done under general anesthesia. We follow a housewide policy outlining the procedure. All physicians involved in...

  6. Standards of Care guiding the Angio RN

    hawks5 posted a topic in Radiology

    A situation arouse recently that resulted in the question "What is your standard of care for groin site preps?" Realizing everyone in our department does it a bit differently, I had to admit that we do not have "Standards of Care" that direct all st...