mittels

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1. PT Doing wound care?!

   mittels replied to Gampopa's topic in General Nursing

   I have several pt's on home health that I CM. PT and I share the drsg changes. I go out 3 X week, she goes to the Dr. once a week, and then to PT out pt for wound care on alternating days.

2. Need Help with this drug calculation

   mittels replied to rrhardiman2's topic in Med-Surg

   2000mg/500ml =4mg/ml = 0.5ml/min = 30ml/hr This is the way I personally make sense of figuring out these calculations. I know there is an easier way, but I get to the same number.

3. What would you have done?

   mittels replied to Sadie04's topic in General Nursing

   Thanks for the info. Its been 3 years since I worked in the hospital enviorment and things change so much in that period of time.

4. Where do you nurse?

   mittels replied to beckymcrn's topic in General Nursing

   Been around done alot from hospital nursing cardiac unit for 8 years, to hospice case management, school nursing, dialysis, until now I found my true love besides cardiac: Health service director in 2 assisted living facilities.

5. What is right, what is wrong?

   mittels replied to mittels's topic in General Nursing

   What would be my local abuse hot line? Would this be like adult protective services?

6. What is right, what is wrong?

   mittels posted a topic in General Nursing

   I had this pt which was sick and getting sicker through out the end of Jan. and Feb. I sent him out by ems the first time in Jan. He ended up staying in the hospital for five days and when he came back to us they said he had positive stools. OK, but...

7. 4.0 Students...do people ever say...

   mittels replied to hoppermom3's topic in General Students

   Thinking about this from my point of veiw, I was a A and B student. I had friends who were all A's and those who were all B's and those that just squeezed by. It does not matter whether or not you were the smartest or not in a class of 50, It matters...

8. CNA's passing meds in ALF. What's your opinion?

   mittels replied to Marti Ann's topic in Geriatric

   The assistants that pass meds here are not considered cna's they are referred to as pca's (patient care tech's). They are trained to assist the residents with giving them their meds. If the the residents are not competent enough to know what they are...

9. What would you have done?

   mittels replied to Sadie04's topic in General Nursing

   For one thing, I didnt think you could have blood go through a picc line, I thought it would damage to many blood cells as it was pushed through. As for the abx and heparin, you did the right thing. it would give the pt a mass bolous if you were to l...

10. Methatraxate question

    mittels replied to Whisper's topic in International

    I had to be on methotrexate po for my lupus so you can add that disease to the list of this horrible drug!!!!!!!!!! It causes nausea vomiting mouth sores teeth to decay (lots of fillings now). I finally had to go off of it when I developed an anapha...

11. What Nursing school are you in? Show your pride!

    mittels replied to straba's topic in General Students

    This is funny. Walla Walla is such a small town. I grew up in tri-cities. Such a small world, but never realized so many people know about this small town.

12. Nurses and smoking

    mittels replied to ashleyh_84's topic in General Nursing

    Excuse me, I have to disagree with this. In no way is any nurse perfect. Tell me, just because a nurse smokes does not mean he/she can not teach their pt's the health risk associated with smoking. This includes ETOH use. Those who drink even occ. are...

13. RN, Nurse Manager

    mittels replied to shince's topic in Geriatric

    agree totally. My babysitting duty is with 29 of them.

14. Arizona nurses- please help!

    mittels replied to JMP's topic in Arizona

    guess i really didnt answer your question in full here it is. there are @ five percentages that you can select from for az state tax to come out of your pay, this depends on how much you want taken out or have to owe at the end of the year. Such as ...

15. Question from test today, need your opinion PLEASE!!

    mittels replied to kwagner_51's topic in General Nursing

    3000cc fluid each day is reccomended(SP) to try and get rid of the excess fluid given during child birth.