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  1. Very Low Dose Insulin Administration

    Thanks for your comments! So you are saying that insulin pens will not give only a 0.5 unit? You stated that "sliding scale...is pretty dated". What would be the best way to give insulin in the hospital (other than everyone having Continuous Gluc...
  2. Very Low Dose Insulin Administration

    Pens seem to be the answer we need because you can dial in 0.5 unit. Did not know that pumps can give that low of a dose. Thank you for your input!! We have a system of timed FSBG's (0715/1130/1645) followed by Diab...
  3. Very Low Dose Insulin Administration

    It is rare that we need to do this, but our diabetes team developed this Very Low scale for a few very insulin sensitive pts. (We also have Low, Medium, High scales--all start at FSBG of 150.)
  4. Very Low Dose Insulin Administration

    We have a "Very Low Dose" lispro sliding scale that we use with some of our diabetic pts. The difficulty that we have is that our insulin syringes do not show 0.5 units accurately. So when only a 0.5 unit is ordered we have to "eyeball it"--(not ver...
  5. Allowing Corpsman to Become Nurses

    I was a Navy Corpsman in the late 1970's. We were trained to assess patients, order tests, consult with the MD if needed, and treat patients pretty much independently, partly because a corpsman was sometimes the only medical person on board a ship (...
  6. Foley Bag hooks on Stryker S3 beds

    Sorry I haven't gotten back to you sooner, there are a total of 4 hook, 2 on each side. But some of the hooks include the weight of the foley bag if it is hanging from that hook and the other two do NOT include the weight of the foley bag. Can't fi...
  7. Foley Bag hooks on Stryker S3 beds

    Just got new Stryker S3 beds and am having trouble figuring out which foley hooks to use if you do NOT want to incorporate the foley bag and contents into the patient weight. There are 2 places on each side to hang the foley bags on, one near the mi...
  8. Working on a large nursing unit

    We do have Admit Nurses and they are great!! Never thought of using them to help with the Discharges, though. Thanks for your thoughts. What is a Vocera? We will have phones to carry that let us know when our patients use their call light and we ...
  9. Working on a large nursing unit

    I work on a Medical Unit and we are moving into a new, MUCH LARGER building. We will have all private rooms (we currently have some double rooms...) and our hallways will be the length of a football field! Each room will have a Nurse Server with s...
  10. Neuro ICU - Do you talk to brain-dead patients?

    Thanks for sharing your personal family experience. Sounds like it has given you a gift that you have given to other families going through this heart-wrenching experience. Would you share how "you tailor my interactions" for those who don't quite ...
  11. From a happy and lucky Nurse

    I am getting back into nursing after a 12 year absence and you have reminded me of a key to my success in the past as a nurse~ treat all your patients as family. Or try to remember what it is like to be on the other side of the bedrails... Thank yo...
  12. How to determine Right/Left in brain scans?

    Thanks for the information, but when I go to that website, no images show up. I'm assuming one has to register (doctors who read CT scans) in order to view the slides. I think you are right in that the orientation is as if you were looking down on ...
  13. How to determine Right/Left in brain scans?

    I can figure out which is the front (anterior) and which is the posterior part of the brain by its shape. BUT when you interpret the x-ray is the orientation such that you are looking down on the patient's head (makes the patient's right on the righ...
  14. /Users/MandM/Desktop/images-4.jpeg I am trying to figure out which side is right and which side is left when looking at a brain scan such as a CT scan of the brain (no marker clue shown on the xray). If the above photo comes through on this post th...
  15. Neuro ICU - Do you talk to brain-dead patients?

    When one of my patients was "officially" pronounced brain dead, I usually stopped explaining things to them. One of our doctors would write, "Patient is dead." in the doctor's progress notes~(meaning patient was dead dead, not just brain dead). Th...