Pookafert

Pookafert specializes in Emergency, ICU, PACU, Hospice.

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1. Any in a field of nursing you love?

   Pookafert replied to stellaRN1983's topic in General Nursing

   I absolutely love my hospice hospital liaison job. I have spent twenty plus years in the emergency and critical care environment and it was a time for change. The feeling I get from getting someone home to where they want to be and with the people th...

2. Gravity NS boluses for pediatric patients?

   Pookafert replied to rainbowbright2's topic in General Nursing

   That was fun and I was pleasantly surprised. I have to apologize to the OP for asking a complex question and giving a not serious answer and spiraling this thread away from the question. I just had a long day and took the opportunity to make myself l...

3. Gravity NS boluses for pediatric patients?

   Pookafert replied to rainbowbright2's topic in General Nursing

   As most of us realize, with apparently a few exceptions, IV tubing comes in a standard length of 150 cm and will be a constant and the patient size the variable. So I still maintain my previous answers.

4. Gravity NS boluses for pediatric patients?

   Pookafert replied to rainbowbright2's topic in General Nursing

   It's a physics thing. Compare it to the planets. Little Earth has less of a gravitational pull than big ole Jupiter. Therefore objects are not as firmly drawn to them. So...yes really.

5. Gravity NS boluses for pediatric patients?

   Pookafert replied to rainbowbright2's topic in General Nursing

   No they won't get it too fast. They are smaller and have less of a gravitational pull to suck it out of the bag.

6. Terrified to be on my own with no preceptor!!

   Pookafert replied to FiduciaRN's topic in General Nursing

   You could always just after being released on your own transfer departments and have to be re-oriented to that department. If you are in a large hospital you could drag this out for a long time. You could even change hospitals or move to a differen...

7. Jean Watson Caring Science

   Pookafert replied to MA Nurse's topic in General Nursing

   When has nursing been all about "medical" care? Doctors care for the medical aspects. We as nurses have to adapt their orders to the individual needs, support systems and beliefs by incorporating these into the process often involving very little "...

8. And if we catch you smoking you'll be charge $25

   Pookafert replied to Manatee111's topic in General Nursing

   Why not? You break the rules in a car and you get a fine...you are determined to be a liability to you're insurance company and your premiums go up. You break the rules in the hospital and you get a fine...you're determined to be liability to your ...

9. Want others to know...and learn

   Pookafert replied to lilywater's topic in General Nursing

   Everything happens for a reason... I started out in a metropolitan ER that was known for it's acuity of non-trauma patients. I recieved my CEN (the only one in the department), was the final step preceptor (all new hires had to be evaluated by me...