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  1. Any buretrol advice???

    Be very careful when 'sqeezing' buretrols. They are hard plastic and can rupture easy...trust me...I sqeezed once and chemo exploded all over my arm and the kid!!! Plus when you squeeze you allow air (only having gone through a sm filter I question t...
  2. Patient Assessment - Deep trouble

    OK...looks like a really fun game...and learning too... Here are my two kids that present in emerg: A: kiddie 4 yrs old 3day Hx malaise and cough, dehyrated, temp 38.8 B: kiddie 4 years old on Tx for ALL temp 38.3 no other Sx. who ya gonna send past ...
  3. Has a pt given you a chuckle lately?

    We have an 8 year old Boy who has been to hell and back.... Tonight as I was trying to finish all my charting he brought out his little CD player and began belting out Brittany Spears... We all thought we would pee ourselves to hear this little guy s...
  4. We once got a orangey-purple jelly in a styrofoam cup...we held a contest of who could identify it (even with taste tests)...people suggested pureed squash, pudding, congealed grease....kitchen finally identified it as sodium-free gluten-free vegan g...
  5. sleeping staff

    I sleep at night for 1 1/2 hours. As does every other nurse I work with. We bust out butts on day shift and only ever take two breaks on a 12 hour day. During the night we work hard, but barring anaphylaxtic drugs or blood admin we stagger these 1 ...
  6. caring for the dead

    I work peds onc...and get super attached to our kids who spend a lot of time with us...a little while ago we had a one year old die, he was a fav of all. My advice is let your emotions come. Through my tears I kissed his cool brow while he was in his...
  7. amphotericin reactions

    We use alot of ampho B and liposomal ampho on my peds onc/bmt unit. It is such a nasty drug! I would like to hear others' experiences with it. Has anyone seen anaphylaxis??? How do you monitor it? We have one kid who reacts violently to both B and li...
  8. Stethoscopes

    I have an ultrascope and highly recommed it. I can do an awesome assessment through clothing with no problems. I It looks heavy,but isn't when compared to a cardiology scope. It also has thick tubing which helps with sound transmission...and the best...
  9. Worst nursing proceedure ever....

    I funded my way through nursing school working on a plastics unit as a NA. One of my jobs was babysitting the leeches. They would be on a nasty smelly wound sucking away and then would fall off and I would pick them up with forceps and drop them into...
  10. help! i got sick watching a shot!

    We did a nurse shadow in 1st year nursing....we were looking at this little kid with a shunt...not even gross. and I fainted....almost quit nursing that day... When I graduated I worked peds neuro and dealt with shunts every day....nerves make people...
  11. What's the deal with scrubs?

    We can wear what ever we want...I love prints (then again I do work peds)...but when I was in school I had a prof that did her phD thesis on patients with dementia and one of her findings was that people with dementia often thought that those who wo...
  12. Have you ever administered IV iron?

    We give iron in our tpn all the time....it just needs to be filtered below the lipid/trav y...special filters ours are blue....lipids and iron make nasty precipitates.....I guess we use lower doses in tpn so I've never seen any special precations for...
  13. hearing aids and stethoscopes - HELP!

    I recently got an ultrascope (they are available on the web). Their thick tubing and insulated stethescope head is amazing. I find that by cutting off the cup part of the ear tips that I have found the perfect stethescope to work with my hearing loss...
  14. Blood administration

    We change our tubing q2units, but we flush between units (but not through the filter). It is the filter that needs to be changed not the tubing, but who wants to mess around changing filters (yucky biohazardy mess).
  15. Is it hard not to get attatched?

    I am a peds oncology nurse...and of course you get attached. There are some of my kids that I just love and many of them will probably die. But by being attached I can be a better more caring nurse for them in the time that they have. And then if the...