Robinr1958

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1. Floating Issues

   Robinr1958 replied to PCloudy's topic in MICU

   Linda, Our hospital has been discussing attempting to become a magnet hospital. Currently, unit nurses are frequently floated out to med/surg and telemetry but med surg and telemetry nurses are never floated in to us...(major negative morale issue)....

2. Artificial feeding-Terri Schiavo

   Robinr1958 replied to ktwlpn's topic in General Nursing

   As an ICU nurse for more than 20 years, I have been witness to countless cases as heart-breaking as Terri's. I feel the pain of both sides of her family. I have discussed my wishes with not only my husband but also my daughter and the rest of my fa...

3. Using one secondary set for all IVPB's

   Robinr1958 replied to Robinr1958's topic in General Nursing

   Thanks to everyone for your responses. I have used the same tubing for multiple IVPB's in another facility but we always backflushed the mainline fluids to clear the previous med out of the tubing...Never had a problem with incompatibilities as the ...

4. Where is everyone from?

   Robinr1958 replied to shllby1's topic in General Nursing

   I'm in Northwest Louisiana now and it is where I grew up but I lived in Maryland in the Baltimore are for a while and worked at Johns-Hopkins for 5 years. I loved Maryland and wouldn't mind living there again. Robin

5. Using one secondary set for all IVPB's

   Robinr1958 posted a topic in General Nursing

   Hello All, The hospital I work at presently uses separate tubing for each IVPB. I have worked at other facilities that use one for all and feel that this practice probably is not only more cost effective but also decreases the infection risk as the ...