alyca

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1. Can they really be serious???

   alyca replied to SEOBowhntr's topic in General Nursing

   Wow...surprised at all the petty remarks here.... My older sister has a 2 1/2 year old and a 3 1/2 month old...she was carrying the 2 1/2 year old (too feisty to put in a cart), and had the 3 1/2 month old in her car seat/carrier thing on the top of ...

2. What do you guys put on your trauma patients with nasty abrasions from skidding along the road?

   alyca replied to jax's topic in Orthopaedic

   If it is yucky and oozy and not looking so hot (maybe infection setting in...), we have used silvadene cream covered in gauze. Works AWESOME. Only for goopy icky ones, but applying it twice a day, wrapping it in some dry gauze to let it do its thin...

3. Millionaires on nursing salaries

   alyca replied to SharonH, RN's topic in General Nursing

   As for me, we started early. I come from a family with NO money--my mom raised 4 kids on $800 a month in child support and help from her family. Nothing. My goal in life was to have enough money for everything I need, and some of what I want. An...

4. Inventions we'd love to see....

   alyca replied to Nurse-o-Matic's topic in General Nursing

   We use rotobeds for patients that are in cervical traction or have unstable spines...they rotate to whatever degree you set them at, and have a trapdoor for bowel issues. Neat!

5. Nursing community colleges in seattle

   alyca replied to xng's topic in Washington

   I thought I was pretty clear..........shoreline is my preference..........

6. Nursing community colleges in seattle

   alyca replied to xng's topic in Washington

   I also went to shoreline for my ADN, then to UW-Bothell for my ADN-BSN program. So, I am a bit biased.... BUT.....I can say with all honesty that the students from Shoreline we have on our unit (we get them from just about every program in the area-...

7. pin care for external fixators

   alyca replied to marcibz123's topic in Orthopaedic

   I am in the process of working with some other nurses and educators in my trauma hospital to make a pin care guideline. We are starting a study that will hopefully be published in the next year or so. Reviews of the literature available out there s...

8. Abnormal PAP: I'm scared!

   alyca replied to Nurse-o-Matic's topic in General Nursing

   Dysplasia is actually pretty common and is usually nothing. As far as HPV, I was involved in the huge study through the UW here in Seattle that was published earlier this year. The study was the creation of a vaccine to prevent HPV, which is usuall...

9. Anyone taking the ONC exam in October??

   alyca posted a topic in Orthopaedic

   Anyone else?? I am studying up, taking it October 15th. It was my new years resolution this year (I get $1 raise, yippee), and it is going fairly well so far. I work in a trauma/ortho unit, so I see all the trauma stuff that is covered, but have...

10. lumbar burst fracture- s/p rock climbing injury---

    alyca replied to summitsprite's topic in Orthopaedic

    I work on a trauma/ortho unit and we see lots of these. The 'turtle' brace (TLSO--thoracolumbarsacral orthotic) may be all you need if there is no canal compromise and the fractures are stable/not displaced. Generally, we put people in these for 12...

11. Who was your 1st patient

    alyca replied to dinkymouse's topic in General Nursing

    I do remember my first hospital patient (as opposed to my first nursing home patient from the quarter before). Our instructor assigned patients to us on our first day, and we went in only having a brief diagnosis. We were supposed to introduce ours...

12. Is it a JP or is it a Blake?

    alyca replied to HappyNurse2005's topic in General Nursing

    Umm....if it looks like a grenade, it's a JP (Jackson Pratt). If it is round and flat with springs inside, it is a HemoVac (HV). Not sure about the blake.

13. whats your day like?

    alyca replied to Sweetiepie1497's topic in General Nursing

    Well, I work both 8 and 12 hour day shifts at an extremely busy level 1 trauma center on the trauma/orthopedics unit. My day~~~ 0700-0730- get report on the 3-4 patients that I will be responsible for. We do total care, so the RN is responsible fo...

14. New grad program at U of Wash, Harborview, Swedish, Va Mason - what do you think?

    alyca replied to smile123's topic in Washington

    I work at Harborview in orthopedics and went through the new grad program here. It is tailored to you. generally, it is about 12 weeks long, you spend the first 8 weeks or so(depending on your progress) working with a precepting nurse on the day sh...

15. Discovery Health Channel Nurses

    alyca replied to brazuca's topic in General Nursing

    When I was in nursing school, they were filming for the show "Birth Day", and one of my patients was having a C-section and I was filmed in that one. Didn't do much but stand next to the docs as they did all the work. He was great in telling all th...