Littleguccipiggy

Littleguccipiggy has 2 years experience and specializes in Oncology.

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1. Employee HEalth Surveillance Program

   Littleguccipiggy replied to North Woods Nurse's topic in Oncology

   I didn't reply since you were asking about outpatient surveillance. I currently work inpatient and my workplace follows ONC guidelines. Its done through employee health, so I believe only nurses who hang chemo are monitored. https://www.ons.org/prac...

2. rituximab infusion rate (calculation)

   Littleguccipiggy replied to Mr. Green's topic in Oncology

   Whoa. I haven't worked at many hospitals, but I've never seen Rituxan not in a 1:1 concentration. That's asking for someone to make a rate error with that concentration. Is there a specific reason your hospital doesn't use a 1:1 concentration?

3. Sign-on Bonuses Are Alive and Well

   Littleguccipiggy replied to HouTx's topic in General Nursing

   Sounds tempting, but I can't go back to those unsafe nurse patient ratios I had when I was in Texas before. (Granted, it was a small county hospital, not a big hospital like Houston.) That and I don't think I could take the humidity anymore.

4. Help Me Get Excited About My Shift to Night Shift!

   Littleguccipiggy replied to seasidesoul's topic in General Nursing

   I love night shift! Sure, my sleep schedule is all wonky, but I could never switch to days. Here's what I love: There's less people around - respiratory, PT/OT, chaplin, volunteers, family members. There's less procedures at night - nobody's going t...

5. Should I Wear this to Work?

   Littleguccipiggy replied to lilgop's topic in General Nursing

   I've never had a problem wearing a necklace at work. If anything people tend to grab at my giant badge to see my name. I have the HRC's blue equality pin on my badge buddy and nobody cares about it. I originally wore it because when I lived in the mi...

6. starting to take ons chemo biotherapy course soon

   Littleguccipiggy replied to drcricket's topic in Oncology

   The discussion topics are pretty straightforward. Most the of the questions are based off of your personal experiences or how things are done at your hospital. For the test just use the chemobook and information presented in the course. Everything th...

7. Chemo/Biotherapy course

   Littleguccipiggy replied to proud nurse's topic in Oncology

   You can take as long as you want. Just read the directions on the test. It tells you have to save your work so you can go back to it.

8. Steps to become an Oncology Nurse

   Littleguccipiggy replied to E.Renez's topic in Oncology

   OCN is mostly for status, since its a requirement for Magnet to have a certain percentage of specialized nurses, hospitals are pushing for all of their nurses to get certified. Its the same as ADN vs BSN, you have the autonomy, just a different title...

9. Steps to become an Oncology Nurse

   Littleguccipiggy replied to E.Renez's topic in Oncology

   It will depend on your hospital's policy on when new grads will be able to hang chemo. It seems that its typically about six months. When your hospital feels that you are ready, they'll have you take the ONS chemotherapy class. Then you can hang chem...

10. Steps to become an Oncology Nurse

    Littleguccipiggy replied to E.Renez's topic in Oncology

    Its pretty much the same as any unit. Get hired into an oncology unit, gain experiences, get you ONS chemotherapy & biotherapy card, and if you really want to, become an OCN.

11. Port-a-cath needle removal

    Littleguccipiggy replied to tiffy723's topic in Oncology

    I didn't even know there are still manufacturers out there that don't put safety devices on their needles. That is a huge safety issue. Ports are usually pretty secure where they are, but I also can't imagine taking the needle out without stabilizing...

12. Night shift scheduling!

    Littleguccipiggy replied to KBRN15's topic in General Nursing

    At my hospital we don't self schedule, but the night shift manager is awesome at giving us a great skeleton schedule. Thurs/Fri/Sat, Sun/Mon off, then Tues/Wed/Thurs on. That way we get six days off every other week. Some people choose to split up th...

13. An Atheist Nurse in King James Hospital

    Littleguccipiggy replied to EMSnurse411's topic in Spirituality

    What's worse than being Atheist is being Buddhist. Thankfully, I've only been bible thumped once, and that was when I lived in the middle Texas. I was a new grad then, so I didn't know I could say "this isn't the appropriate time for this conversatio...

14. 8/22 What I learned this week....

    Littleguccipiggy replied to ixchel's topic in General Nursing

    When a butt looks like two tennis balls bouncing up and down, kind of like Ned Flanders I imagine. I have yet to meet Dr. Dreamy .

15. 8/22 What I learned this week....

    Littleguccipiggy replied to ixchel's topic in General Nursing

    This week I learned -I am trying to not get my feelings hurt when job #2 decided to extend my orientation one more day -No matter how much the nurses say job #2 is better or easier, I still love the chaos and my friends at job #2 -Sometimes job #2 ma...