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,...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...