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1. Furosemide

   brown rice posted a topic in Med-Surg

   What lab values should you beware of prior to some starting on Furosemide for the first time? What are the most important things to know about your patient prior to Lasix use?

2. Help with Interview

   brown rice replied to lorettap's topic in Hospice

   I was just reading your post and know that now it has been months since you had your interview, but wanted to respond because I have an interview for a Hospice position at a major hospital here and it is for case management mainly in homecare. If you...

3. Heparin drips

   brown rice replied to brown rice's topic in General Nursing

   Thank you I appreciate that response. We also do this at our hospital. Are there any medical conditions that I should be particularly aware of when monitoring pt.'s on heparin drips? Besides the obvious of pt.'s being out of PTT range what other rea...

4. Heparin drips

   brown rice posted a topic in General Nursing

   I still feel uncomfortable with Heparin drips. Can someone please give me a summary of all the things they monitor when the get a heparin drip? Just want to make sure I am not missing anything. Thanks!

5. Looking for nursing scholarships?

   brown rice posted a topic in General Nursing

   Greeting, I have just been excepted into a Bachelor nursing program in Portland, Oregon as a Junior and will be starting in two weeks. I am starting to put together a packet of scholarship information. I have some scholarships I will apply to, but w...

6. healthcare values

   brown rice posted a topic in General Nursing

   "Naturopathic medicine is more than a system of health care; it is a way of life. It is a distinct system of medicine that stresses health maintenance, disease prevention, patient education, and patient responsibilities in contrast to treatment of di...

7. Do hospitals promote healing?

   brown rice posted a topic in General Nursing

   Is there a connection between the atmosphere one is in when ill and the ability to recover quickly? Yes, there the needs of the physical body, but what about mental needs? It has been noted that certain colors allow for better learning environments, ...

8. Is there cultural diversity in the nursing profession?

   brown rice replied to brown rice's topic in General Nursing

   thank you for your comments. Good point!

9. I want to be a nurse BUT

   brown rice replied to finness's topic in General Nursing

   Sarah, I was touched by your letter and just had to respond! Family relationships can be very confusing. They have known you your whole life and therefore it is easy to assume they know everything about you- not true- yet it is very likely they know ...

10. opening up nursing the profession to spanish speakers?

    brown rice posted a topic in General Nursing

    I just posted a thread called, " Is there cultural diversity in the nursing profession?" and on a similar topic I would like to put out another question. I am a C.N.A. and have noticed that maybe as much as 50% of my co-workers are Hispanic, yet I pe...

11. Is there cultural diversity in the nursing profession?

    brown rice posted a topic in General Nursing

    " 18% of R.N. students are minorities." (pg 367, Sociology of Health, Illness, and Health Care-Rose Weitz *excellent book!) Awhile ago I started a thread on the increasing cultural diversity of american citizens and how the nursing field is ada...

12. What do you expect of a CNA?

    brown rice replied to wendyd's topic in General Nursing

    Hey Wendy, you started a great discussion. I have been working as a C.N.A. for two years now and I have had to deal with some poor treatment and back-breaking work. Plus we are way way underpaid! Cause like someone above pointed out sometimes there ...

13. lactation consultants- how many hospitals have them?

    brown rice posted a topic in Ob/Gyn

    I am intersted to know for those of you who work in hospitals or had your children in the a hospital- were/are there lactation consultants? are patients given proper/enough education on the techniques of breastfeeing and the many advantages of it (he...

14. Holistic Nursing Education

    brown rice replied to Shanti's topic in Holistic

    Great to hear these programs are accredited! But I would like to know how many nurses are really able to practice alternative medicine in the work place? and if so where do you work? Jamistlc- you took herbology and homepathy. have you been able to a...

15. are nursing really using alternative medicine?

    brown rice replied to brown rice's topic in Holistic

    Hey everyone- i just realized I made a spelling mistake in the title! you know what i meant.