Magda_PatagoniaNurse

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1. LPN's Role in the ICU?

   Magda_PatagoniaNurse replied to Nurse-o-Matic's topic in MICU

   Hi (excuse me about my english, i'm still learning) My name´s Magdalena, I'm a chilean new grad nurse. I was reading all the comments posted here, and what can i say, here in my country we have the same troubles with our teammates...But the issue her...

2. PICC or Central Line?

   Magda_PatagoniaNurse replied to psalm's topic in Urology

   I think that the PICCs aren't appropiate for dialysis, basically because the higher resistance to the boodflow (in dialysis we need an venous access with high volume (and the lowest resistance) for being efficient). The PICCs are best for long term t...

3. Words You Hear In The Wonderful World of Nursing

   Magda_PatagoniaNurse replied to 43RN20's topic in Humor

   No...i translated, word by word, the patients complaints....The patients spoke spanish because we're chilean... And the hidden message is that the patients haven't physiology or anathomy classes and the folk ways to speak about their complaints is, a...

4. Words You Hear In The Wonderful World of Nursing

   Magda_PatagoniaNurse replied to 43RN20's topic in Humor

   Hello I gonna tell you some "funny" thing that happen in some hospitals in Chile...from the doctors jajaja "The patient is ok, prepare the discharge" what happened: The patient, minutes before....jumped from the 5 th floor of the PSYCHIATRIC unit.......

5. Words You Hear In The Wonderful World of Nursing

   Magda_PatagoniaNurse replied to 43RN20's topic in Humor

   From Chile, in the ER in one of the crowdest ER of the country, sometimes we must accept patients who must wait in the floor, in a chair, or even just waiting standing (with apendicitis....no comments) Complaint postuled for the patient: "i have cere...