pediCNS

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1. What is the difference?

   pediCNS replied to AliciaB's topic in CNS

   You can follow the path you choose with either path. The biggest difference is prescriptive privileges. Not all states allow CNS to obtain them. However, in Indiana, with the appropriate preparation and continuing education, it is possible. I do agre...

2. need to interview a nurse with 2 years of experience for a class paper

   pediCNS replied to CharliezAngie's topic in Student Assist

   Angie, I have been a nurse for 25 years and would be delighted to help. [email protected].

3. need to interview a nurse with 2 years of experience for a class paper

   pediCNS replied to CharliezAngie's topic in Student Assist

   Angie, I have been a nurse for 25 years and would be delighted to help.

4. I was fired for refusing to give injections incorrectly!

   pediCNS replied to katlpn6's topic in Safety

   Also, now that EMLA can be purchased OTC, you know it isn't going to be paid for. One of the concerns I have with EMLA is that for it to be truly effective, it must be on for at least one hour--though depending on the practice, this might not be a pr...

5. I was fired for refusing to give injections incorrectly!

   pediCNS replied to katlpn6's topic in Safety

   First of all, I would like to think that you do not consider pediatric nurses utter morons.:) Taping syringes together has never been an accepted practice in any practice area that I have been in in my 25 years of pediatrics. Certainly one wants to t...

6. 1970's NG tubes

   pediCNS posted a topic in General Nursing

   I know that not all of you are as old as me, but I am trying to help a colleague research NG tubes and we are trying to remember if the old tubes had one port or many ports. Do any of you remember? I do not remember ever using a single port and I sta...