stalsrn

stalsrn specializes in Med/surg.

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1. chemo and nutrition

   stalsrn replied to stalsrn's topic in General Nursing

   Thank so much for asking. I am saddened to tell you my mom lost her battle with cancer on November 4th. It has been a very tough time for my family. Thank God for little kids, they keep things simple. My oldest son told me not to be so sad, "it's t...

2. chemo and nutrition

   stalsrn replied to stalsrn's topic in General Nursing

   Thanks so much for asking. My mother is not doing well right now. She was in hospital for 5 days due to a collapsed lung. She is now home and going to radiation daily but she cannot do chemo right now because that would entail receiving 1+ liters o...

3. chemo and nutrition

   stalsrn posted a topic in General Nursing

   I am a surgical nurse so I see a lot of patients getting parenteral or enteral nutrition. My mother has been on and off chemo for the last year and a half. Last week she stopped taking Tarceva (MD orders) and will start radiation next week. She has n...

4. 6 months on night, my beauty suffers

   stalsrn replied to holdensjane's topic in General Nursing

   I too suffered acne, weight gain and those lovely raccoon eyes. I still work nights and really love it and have found that exercise is the key for me. Since I started going to the gym for 30 minutes every other day, even on work days, I have notice...

5. Med/Surg or Not to Med/Surg. That is the question?

   stalsrn replied to ButterPeacanRican's topic in General Nursing

   Personally I went for a surgical floor only because I wanted to refine all the skills I learned in school and learn new ones. I have a couple of friends who went right into a special field, one went into critical care and the other into L&D. They...

6. Milking a JP drain?

   stalsrn replied to JBizzleRN's topic in Med-Surg

   Our hospital P&P states to strip JP q shift. I always do it during my initial assessment. Alcohol wipes are great and remember to hold the tube at the insertion site!

7. Intermitant or continuous suction for salem sump NGT?

   stalsrn replied to stalsrn's topic in General Nursing

   You are all wonderful! Thank so much for the answers. We only have salem sump NGT at our hospital so I guess the policy is right, although I will go with the MD's order regarding suction. Thanks again!

8. Intermitant or continuous suction for salem sump NGT?

   stalsrn posted a topic in General Nursing

   I was taught during my orientation to surgical floor to always put NGT, especially salem sump, to continuous low suction. Some of the other nurses are now telling me that continuous is not right, should be intermitant only. The policy for the floor s...

9. Confused!!! I already have a degree - should I do a BSN program or an MSN program

   stalsrn replied to Toots71506's topic in General Nursing

   I had the same problem when I decided to go back to school. I choose the ASN route so I could work for awhile and decide if I truely wanted to be a nurse. So far I love it and have found that I can do the RN to BSN or MSN online and my hospital wil...

10. My fault????

    stalsrn posted a topic in Med-Surg

    Last night during shift report I noticed a pt had orders to recieve 500cc bolus of albumin with start time of 1530. The orders were signed on the chart and marked off on the mar. The nurse giving me report at 1930 stated that, yes it was almost done ...

11. Anyone torn between Nursing and Clinical Social Work?

    stalsrn replied to kgard7777's topic in General Nursing

    As a former social worker i can honestly say Nursing is much better!! I work my 36 hours a week, I am not on call 24/7 and I don't have to take my work home with me. I have done all kinds of case management and it was always the same, low pay, high...

12. Pulling G tube?

    stalsrn replied to jschut's topic in General Nursing

    As a former social worker and APS worker I can say that all the advice is correct in this instance. The pts child will need to hire a lawyer at his own expense if he wants the tube pulled. He can try to have his parent deemed incompetent to make ow...

13. Cafeteria for Night Shift

    stalsrn replied to TylerTXRN's topic in General Nursing

    I think my hospital has about 300 beds and the cafeteria is open from 0130-0330 for night shifters. They tried to take it away from us and make us use a "floating" cart that would travel to different areas throughout the hospital. "They" thought they...

14. Post-op care of pt's with epidural

    stalsrn replied to nbnurse95's topic in Med-Surg

    I work on a surgical floor and we do get pts back post op with epidurals quite often. Our policy requires we do Resp, pulse ox, pain scale, CMS, and site assessment every 2 hours. 2 nurses have to verify original program and any changes, such as ba...

15. How many patients?

    stalsrn replied to sistasoul's topic in Med-Surg

    I work on a surgical floor at night. We generally have 4-5 pts till 2300 then may get a 5th & 6th if we have a nurse leaving at 2330. Our floor is set up with 16 rooms on the north side and 16 rooms on the south side with a nursing station on ea...