Cinquefoil

Cinquefoil has 2 years experience and specializes in Med Surg, Home Health.

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1. Integrative Private Practice

   Cinquefoil replied to milesel's topic in Holistic

   I think it all depends on what kind of herbalism you practice. In my state you are only allowed to prescribe and dispense commercial herbal supplements. Also, my understanding with herbal medicine is that you are allowed to say herbs "support cardi...

2. Sterile Water for Enteral Feeding Tubes?

   Cinquefoil replied to med_geek's topic in Critical

   The reasoning I've heard is that the interactions between the water additives in community water sources, and medications, are not well studied. Safest therefore to use sterile water which is, in theory, JUST water. I take this with a grain of salt ...

3. What's the meanest thing a patient has said to you?

   Cinquefoil replied to fangirl's topic in Relations

   "I hope a polar bear eats you." Lol

4. How to best use Home Health CNAs

   Cinquefoil posted a topic in Home Health

   Hi, working with a home health agency now. We have CNAs, but they are currently waaay underutilized. I know there are ways to keep CNAs busy & cost-effective in home health, but I suspect we have multiple issues, including: 1) Ignorance on the...

5. best way for a nurse to manage cuts on her fingers?

   Cinquefoil replied to RNexplorer's topic in General Nursing

   I've had hand burns, small but open during work shifts. I found that a single Tegaderm stuck ok until I needed to, oh, say, sanitize or wash my hands. Solution? Goopy skin adhesive, the kind we use to make NG tube securing devices stick to the nose....

6. It's Wrong! (A night shift perspective)

   Cinquefoil replied to Sixtyseven's topic in Geriatric

   Side note: as a person with low thyroid hormone which Synthroid replaces, I wake myself up one hour early to take that med even after working a 14 hour day the day before and heading in to another one. Food drastically decreases that med's effectiven...

7. Golf Team Names? Need Ideas!

   Cinquefoil replied to joegolfer's topic in General Nursing

   The Texas Cath Crew: Here to Bag Holes! http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/External_urine_collection_devices

8. Golf Team Names? Need Ideas!

   Cinquefoil replied to joegolfer's topic in General Nursing

   The Successful Insertions?

9. Slamming in IVP meds and Running Incompatible Meds Together: Is it as bad as they say

   Cinquefoil replied to RNdynamic's topic in Medications

   A very experienced ED nurse told me that if IV metoprolol is pushed too fast, it can "bottom out" a patient's pressures, making them ineligible to get other meds they might really need for heart rate irregularities/MI. In the ICU, maybe this would tr...

10. Help! Critical lab: morale -2.5

    Cinquefoil posted a topic in Med-Surg

    Help, please (on this AM after my third night shift). I don't know what to do. Need any of the following: encouragement, empathy, inspiration, similar stories, suggestions. Even tough love though I reserve the right to say ouch. I'm 1.5 years into ...

11. Almost lost my cool at work

    Cinquefoil replied to 0.adamantite's topic in General Nursing

    If your behavior was out of character, then bravo. And if you can laugh at and forgive yourself for those few less than ideal moments, the basic drives that keep you compassionate and present will be more free to do what they do naturally.

12. Almost lost my cool at work

    Cinquefoil replied to 0.adamantite's topic in General Nursing

    Are you a) secretly made of machinery? b) dedicated to patient-shaming? c) allergic to HIPAA and addicted to restraints, and/or d) a fiend of emotional compartmentalization ? If you're none of the above, then congratulations! You're not Nurse Ratche...

13. Vanco Trough Advice

    Cinquefoil replied to amhtmh's topic in Medications

    This question is exactly why my hospital has a clear policy stating that when vancomycin is given, the pharmacist will decide if the vancomycin should be given or held while the trough value is being processed. Then, whatever they decide goes into t...

14. New CPR Song for New CPR Rate?

    Cinquefoil replied to Cinquefoil's topic in General Nursing

    Agree, of course. No one should concentrate on CPR quantity without also quality. But why not focus on both?Music is a very good way to keep tempo accurate without that metronome the ACLS recert video suggested. QUOTE=ArtClassRN;7921455]Proper, com...

15. New CPR Song for New CPR Rate?

    Cinquefoil posted a topic in General Nursing

    So today I became aware that the new ideal CPR rate is "at least" 100 (and up to 120) compressions per minute with the ideal being more like 110 compressions per minute... Help! I can no longer use Staying Alive or Another One Bites the Dust! New so...