clgmezzo

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1. Why do you Nurse in the Burn unit ?

   clgmezzo replied to EENstudent's topic in Burn

   i did a rotation in our regional burn unit which is situated in a regional pediatric hospital and takes both adults and children of all ages and burn types. it was the facility at which the skin culturing was developed. afterward i was enthralled, a...

2. A burning question...

   clgmezzo replied to mommatrauma's topic in Burn

   Well, all burns get cleaned when they come in, regardless of whats on them under normal curcumstances, even tubed pts. So whether its a big burn that gets tubbed, or a little burn that just gets cleaned it all comes off for examination because, no of...

3. Kids and Gun powder!

   clgmezzo replied to RN92's topic in Burn

   The cold water is the same priciple as the ice, twofold: the cold temperature of the ice or water can lower body temp very quickly, its surprising, even cold water will do it secondly, the tissue is already damaged, and since part of the skin is alre...

4. Burn Flowsheets for Nurses

   clgmezzo replied to Driven Persistence's topic in Burn

   We use a flowsheet on our burn patients when they enter our 1:1 critical stage and need close monitoring, its a lowsheet that our unit made that spe4cifically tracks everything important to our patients and is set up in a way that works well for us, ...

5. Shadowing nurse in Burn Unit

   clgmezzo replied to suzy253's topic in Burn

   We LOVE students in our burn center, paramedic, nursing, medical, ANY, but i especially love the nursing students, you will get to see SO much, and ill tell you now-you will get SO much information, because of the education aspect of the specialty bu...

6. Outlying hospital mistakes

   clgmezzo replied to clgmezzo's topic in Burn

   My apologies for offense, i was writing from a standpoint where i assumed that most persons in this forum were burn nurses. Rural hospitals are outlying, just as metropolitan ones are, I never mentioned rurals to begin with. One outlying facility, wh...

7. Outlying hospital mistakes

   clgmezzo replied to clgmezzo's topic in Burn

   For heaven sakes! one might think that i bashed rural hospitals into the ground. Outlying facilities are ANY other non burn center facilities, not just ones out in the country like near where i live. A few posts ago there was a note, from gwenith i b...

8. Outlying hospital mistakes

   clgmezzo replied to clgmezzo's topic in Burn

   gwenith, lol, i understand completely, before i got to my present center i worked in a Tiny little rural hospital in ohio

9. Outlying hospital mistakes

   clgmezzo replied to clgmezzo's topic in Burn

   We offer extensive outreach to all the hospitals in our 17 county area along with inservices for ER staff residents and anyone willing to listen. We also send out materials, and offer an "open door" policy in regards to consultation from pts in their...

10. Stevens Johnson case

    clgmezzo replied to vaughanmk's topic in Burn

    This is aweful! Our unit has these patients frequently, and to me it sounds as if she was completely mistreated from the beginning. Xeroform is a good dressing, but certainly not the cetaphil lotion alone, and probably with no tubbing or baths either...

11. Burns victim saved with revolutionary treatment

    clgmezzo replied to nursebedlam's topic in Burn

    The burn center i work at was the first to have cultured skin, but we have stopped using it entirely because of its poor endurance and easy breakdown later in life, I wonder if the same problems are found in this technique

12. Worst thing you have seen

    clgmezzo replied to Chibi Baka's topic in Burn

    I had one woman who burned her children up purposely in a housefire, very susan smith-ish, new boyfriend, didnt want her kids-tried to pin it on th 6 year old playing with a lighter. The other is just recently a woman and a man were getting a divorc...

13. silver nitrate?

    clgmezzo replied to nurse_lilyjaderose's topic in Burn

    We use it for cauterization of wounds. Acticoat is something we use in our center, though it does stain the skin like crazy as well, we change it every 2 days, our surgeons like to see our wounds as often as possible so we dont usually do a 3 day cha...

14. Is Burn Nursing for me?

    clgmezzo replied to 1431's topic in Burn

    burn nurses love to pick!!!! we pick dead skin all day long, lol, kind of like peeling a family member sun burn only on a different scale i guess!! Many type A's but since it takes a wierd sense of humor its not too bad here, we all get along really ...

15. temporal themometers

    clgmezzo posted a topic in General Nursing

    i was wondering if any of you have the new temporal ones in your facilities and use them, and what you think of them overall. I tend to use them as long as the pt is not sweaty or covered in dressings but i also touch their skin just to double check ...