deweydecimal13501

deweydecimal13501 has 20+ years experience and specializes in Library Director.

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1. Inpatient psych patients refusing to wear ID bracelets, so scanning compliance is poor - what is your practice?

   deweydecimal13501 posted a topic in Psychiatric

   Hello, I am the Library Director at my health system submitting this question for the Nurse Clinician in Psychiatric Services. She wants to know what others are doing and I figured this is one of the best places for that. I hope I can get a...

2. NGT policies about days until removal for Neonates

   deweydecimal13501 posted a topic in NICU

   I am posting for a Nursing Clinician in my hospital. She is interested in finding out about nasograstic tubes and time until removal (daily, days, weeks? other time frames?) for Neonatal patients. What do you you do? Can you please share your po...

3. Nurse Managers - moving from 8 hour to 10 hour shifts

   deweydecimal13501 posted a topic in Management

   Hello, I am doing research for a nurse manager at my hospital. Her question is below. I have done the usual library research but would like to hear from the "field" as well. Question: Has any Nurse Manager moved from 8 hour shifts to 10 hour shif...

4. Favorite NP Journal

   deweydecimal13501 replied to FNP_CCL's topic in Advanced

   MEDSCAPE is free for those of you on a budget and its peer-reviewed. It has a nursing and medical section so check both out. Tripp database l(freemium ) can be searched for guidelines, systematic reviews, and other EBM information. Not all guidel...

5. What kind of nursing delivery system are you using on your unit (team, functional, primary care, total patient care, case management, something else?)

   deweydecimal13501 posted a topic in Med-Surg

   Hello, I am asking for a Nursing Administrator at the hospital here about what kinds of nursing management models/nursing management system/model are used on your Medical-Surgical Units. Whether its: team nursing/modular nursing, total patient care...

6. "Plastic Rounds" or "Plastic Rounding" (rounding on pts in acute care hospitals with catheters, piccs, indwelling catheters, implanted ports, etc. to identify infections)

   deweydecimal13501 posted a topic in Disease

   Hello, I am doing research for one of the Infection Control Nurses. Is anyone doing "Plastic Rounding" or "Plastic Rounds" at their hospital? This is a newly coined term in which nurses in acute care hospitals round on patients with central venous ...

7. Education/certification requirements for hospital occupational health nurse?

   deweydecimal13501 posted a topic in Occupational

   Hello, I have a patron who wants to know what the education/certification requirements are in New York State to work as Occupational Health Nurse in a hospital. Do you have to be a NP? Do you have to have certification (COHN, COHN-S, etc.)? Specifi...

8. Denture (dental) Adhesive - provided by your hospital or not?

   deweydecimal13501 posted a topic in General Nursing

   Hello again, Another question asked by one of the clinical nurse educators. Does your hospital provide denture (dental) adhesive for your patients that wear dentures? Why or why not? As the librarian, I am looking for articles or literature to supp...

9. Non-licensed staff documenting in Code Blue/Trauma Code

   deweydecimal13501 posted a topic in General Nursing

   Does anyone have information on non-licensed staff documenting in a Code Blue or Trauma Code situation? Is it done in your hospital? Who is doing it? What type of qualifications, if any, do they have? How does it work? (supervision, training, etc....

10. Nursing Policy /Procedure Committee - Membership, Charter, Function, Mission

    deweydecimal13501 posted a topic in General Nursing

    Hello all. I am the librarian at a hospital who is doing research for a nurse staff member. My patron is wants to know about other Nursing Policy and Procedure Committees. She is especially interested in the following: 1. Membership make-up of ...

11. Sign on room when pt dies for no more svcs. in room/ courtesy sign - do you have one?

    deweydecimal13501 replied to deweydecimal13501's topic in General Nursing

    Thank-you, thank-you, and thank-you. Awesome responses to my question. My nursing administrator was very happy when I showed her these responses. I can't tell you enough how appreciative I am of this group, your knowledge, and your responses. ...

12. Sign on room when pt dies for no more svcs. in room/ courtesy sign - do you have one?

    deweydecimal13501 replied to deweydecimal13501's topic in General Nursing

    Thank-you so much everyone for responding to my question. The answers are very helpful and exactly what the nursing administrator is looking for. Please keep them coming. I will be checking back for a few more days just in case anybody else wants...

13. Sign on room when pt dies for no more svcs. in room/ courtesy sign - do you have one?

    deweydecimal13501 posted a topic in General Nursing

    Hello everyone, This is a request from one of the nursing administrators at the hospital where I work. I am the librarian here and am researching this for her. I really hope you all share your knowledge and information with her. I appreciate your t...

14. heating/cooling blankets and thermal burns (NOT in surgical setting)

    deweydecimal13501 posted a topic in General Nursing

    Hello everyone, I have a really interesting question here. I have a nurse who has asked for information about heating blankets/cooling blankets and thermal burns outside the intraoperative setting. I have done a LOT of literature searching (databas...

15. Can RNs remove temporary pacing (pacemaker/epicarial) wires?

    deweydecimal13501 replied to deweydecimal13501's topic in Cardiac

    Thank-you for your reply. I have reached out to our State Nursing Board and they will be researching my question and sending appropriate information that will address our question about scope of practice. Deweydecimal13501