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  1. I freeze up when the big traumas/CPRs come in

    VS, i commend you for choosing to work in an ER environment -- i used to work pediatrics, a mix of med/surg and oncology kids over age 7 usually. i HATED being floated to pedi ER -- it scared the begeesus out of me, even after completing ACLS and th...
  2. Meds. off floor taste YUMMY!

    a little off the general subject, but perhaps relevant to the above post -- i was working on a Genitourinary floor, and we had a man who apparently had another psychiatric diagnosis which was not available on admission. about 4pm in the afternoon he...
  3. funniest thing you saw a nurse do.......

    i hope this nurse works on me!!! one of my biggest fears about being old or incapacitated is that i'll have a fu manchu, and nobody will shave me!!! :chuckle
  4. Meds. off floor taste YUMMY!

    :uhoh21: about 8 years or so ago the teaching hospital i worked for decided to test an isolation, room which had been cleaned by housekeeping, after a patient with VRE was discharged. they found samples just about everywhere they tested -- even on t...
  5. certification

    i think certification is useful because: you will increase your knowledge base studying for the exam you can prove to your patients, peers and doctors that you know a thing or two about hospice nursing you can prove to YOURSELF that you know a thing ...
  6. Hospice nursing organizations?

    how about the hospice and palliative nurses association, www.hpna.org (412) 361-2470
  7. use of Cadd pumps in pain management

    i have worked at 3 hospices -- the first was a 600+ pt nonprofit where i was one of 2 infusion nurses -- we typically had between 10 and 20 pts on iv of one sort or another (which sounds like a lot, but really its a small percentage). that organiza...