amyann

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1. Best practice for sacral ulcers?

   amyann posted a topic in General Nursing

   Hi, I have been a nurse for two years now and I work on med-surg. We don't have a ton of patients with pressure ulcers, and the ones we do see we usually put a tegaderm on and they get discharged and we don't ever see the results of our treatment. Re...

2. Pumping and working as RN

   amyann replied to Summers_Off's topic in General Nursing

   Hi, I work on a med-surg floor and somehow, in the last year, half of us have had a baby. So I usually work shifts where we all pump every few hours. Its not really a problem, you just try to fit it into your routine. I heard somewhere that its the ...

3. Question about Xopenex

   amyann replied to amyann's topic in General Nursing

   Thanks for your insight, that is pretty much what I thought but the supervisor and charge nurse made me feel like an itiot when I questioned the idea of giving her Xopenex. I felt like we should get her back in bed from the commode and let her calm d...

4. Are my classmates delusional??

   amyann replied to Lola89's topic in General Nursing

   I pretty much clean up fesces/vomit or some other type of bodily discharge every time I go to work. Some shifts there is no CNA and us nurses do it all.

5. Question about Xopenex

   amyann posted a topic in General Nursing

   I am a new nurse and have a question about a patient I had- she got up to the commode and her heart rate jumped up to the 150's, blood pressure was slightly higher than baseline at 130/80 and RR was 20 and she stated she could feel her heart poundin...