I work in a 1200 bed, level one trauma, teaching facility. We were told that all influenza A cases this year are turning out to be H1N1 by CDC reports from last week. As of last week we have stopped using a special respiratory isolation and now are ...
NurseTink replied to natkat2816's topic in Orthopaedic
In the past couple of years the AAOS have determined that Coumadin was a little overkill. So our facility switched to EC ASA 325mg BID. We have seen a few more patients with DVT and PE. We have also seen more cases of thrombocytopenia with Loveno...
Coco, Why did you choose nursing in the beginning? Maybe you can revisit what sparked your interest to begin with. You are very young and have your entire future ahead of you. We call it LPNs where I live. There are not many around anymore. In t...
NurseTink replied to bluemorningglory's topic in General Nursing
Ohhhhh no! I would never go back!! lol Imagine all the things we do as nurses now that doctors or orderlys did back then. I encourage anyone with the interest of knowing what the nursing cap was like just order one and wear it around the house. see h...
NurseTink replied to gentle_ben_RN's topic in PACU
i am a charge nurse on a very busy ortho unit. we have 8 to 18 surgeries a day. our average length of stay is 2-3 days. we never have more than 6 nurses on our unit. the only time i will ever ask a pacu nurse to hold a patient is if all the nurses h...
NurseTink replied to DeLana_RN's topic in Orthopaedic
DeLana Hi, just checking to see how your orientation is going. I was wondering how you were doing with the 1:6 ratio. I currently am a Charge nurse on a 25 bed unit. 90% if the time I am a free charge nurse unless someone calls in sick and there is...