resumecpr

resumecpr

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About resumecpr

resumecpr has 7 years experience and specializes in ED, ICU, Education.


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  1. Student Concerns...

    I know a nursing student who frequents the local ED seeking narcotic pain medications...which she always receives. I am concerned for her ability to treat patients while using narcotic medication. Can I anonymously report her? To who?
  2. Online PALS Class

    Thanks for all your responses! I signed up for the online AHA class and scheduled the skills check-off with my local EMS educator. Total cost...$225. The other non-AHA class was $275 AND I would have missed out on a great concert in LA. Now I get...
  3. Was I in the wrong to try to call 911?

    So what happened after her "seizure"? Did she get up and skip away?
  4. Online PALS Class

    Hello All, I need a PALS class ASAP before I begin a new job. I have taken it before but need the 2 day as my previous has expired. . Do the online PALS classes provide AHA provider cards? Anybody with any experience taking an online PALS class? ...
  5. Kathy White for sure.
  6. Could it be a heart attack or Pneumonia?

    How about an EKG?
  7. Have you ever puked/fainted/etc at work?

    I was in my final year of nursing school, working in palliative/oncology. I had helped a patient to the bathroom (IV pole and everything) when the tunnel vision began. I managed to squat to the floor to avoid falling as the patient called for help....
  8. PVC and PAC in ECG rhythm

    I would suggest taking a 12 lead EKG class. Is it not mandatory where you work? Recognizing all types of cardiac rhythms is definitely a qualification for any ICU nurse (where I work anyways).
  9. shocked @ email received

    We recently started having madatory work email. On the first week, we ALL got many emails from a penile enlargement company, and adult lesbian pornography video sales!
  10. Ventilators and how they work

    Remember the pneumonic DOPE? D - Disconnection O - Obstruction P - Pnemothorax E - Equipment (failure)
  11. Doctor and nurse

    " I have seen the difference education and experience in nursing makes. Nurses look at their patients...sometimes reading even the smallest cues that things are wrong, this includes physical and emotional aspects. I have rarely seen physicians with s...
  12. Doctor and nurse

    I wanted to be a MD, but didn't want to go away to school as my father had recently died and I felt like my mother needed me. I went to nursing school instead and got my Bachelor's degree. It was only when I was actually in nursing school that I de...
  13. DUI/DWI in Maryland

    PBJ? Peanut butter and jelly?
  14. Helpful Hints: Female Patient Urinary Catheter Insertion

    For larger patients, I put the bed in trendelemburg and always drop the siderail so I can better position myself. Sometimes I ever have another nurse or two hold her legs up and apart. Haven't missed one in a few years.... (and I'm talking 400-500 p...
  15. New CPR Song for New CPR Rate?

    Re : Bangarang. Hahah!!! I love that song...however, I feel that I may start trying to spin on the patient's chest rather than compress it..