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1. Blood Administration / Electronic Scanning & Charting

   njinformaticsrn posted a topic in Emergency

   Does anyone work in a facility that uses an electronic scanning / electronic administration system for transfusing blood or blood products? I'm looking for info on something like an electronic MAR,...

2. LOINC mapping for lab results

   njinformaticsrn posted a topic in Nursing Informatics

   Has anyone found a good way to map lab results to LOINC codes? We are going to be undertaking this project for Meaningful Use. Some of the labs we send out to have been helpful in providing LOINCs,...

3. Patient wristband scanning question

   njinformaticsrn replied to njinformaticsrn's topic in Nursing Informatics

   thank you all for the feedback- i appreciate the

4. Patient wristband scanning question

   njinformaticsrn replied to njinformaticsrn's topic in Nursing Informatics

   Thanks, rninformatics- yes, I'm looking into another way of addressing the flush rather than having it profiled as a med. Totally agree about the patient safety issue. We are currently trying to...

5. Patient wristband scanning question

   njinformaticsrn posted a topic in Nursing Informatics

   Hi all- looking for feedback. Can you think of any scenarios in which it would be acceptable to NOT scan a patient's wristband in the contect of medication administration? For example, a flush is...

6. ECG for patients with tremors

   njinformaticsrn posted a topic in Cardiac

   Can someone please give me some advice? I had a patient today who had tremors, similar to Parkinson's. When the tech was trying to get the ECG there was a lot of artifact. I had been told by another...

7. distinguishing heart blocks EKG

   njinformaticsrn replied to moonischasingme1's topic in Cardiac

   This helped me remember... If your R is far from P, then you have a 1st degree. Longer, longer, longer, drop...then you have a Wenckebach. If your Ps don't go through, then you have a Mobitz 2. If...

8. Pregnancy Dietary Practices Japanese Patients

   njinformaticsrn replied to njinformaticsrn's topic in Ob/Gyn

   I have practically zero- avoid cold things like water and "cooling" foods like cucumber and seek out "warming" foods- but I don't know what falls into these categories. I'm also interested in how much...

9. Pregnancy Dietary Practices Japanese Patients

   njinformaticsrn posted a topic in Ob/Gyn

   Hi everyone- I was hoping an OB specialist with expertise with Japanese patients could help me. Are there any dietary / nutritional customs, traditions, requirements, avoidances, etc during pregnancy...

10. Pressure ulcer and donut pillows

    njinformaticsrn replied to njinformaticsrn's topic in General Nursing

    thank you so much. that's exactly what my notes said! because i'm just starting out, i doubt myself too

11. Pressure ulcer and donut pillows

    njinformaticsrn replied to njinformaticsrn's topic in General Nursing

    but is the donut

12. Pressure ulcer and donut pillows

    njinformaticsrn posted a topic in General Nursing

    If anyone can help ASAP, I'd appreciate it. I'm a first year nursing student. We were told very definitively in class NOT to use a donut pillow when the patient has a pressure ulcer. Our instructors...