sassykitkatt

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1. What is it about Med-Surg?

   sassykitkatt replied to Mint Julip's topic in Med-Surg

   I don't know, but working med/surg is the best place to work. You can't imagine how much knowledge you can gain from working on a med/surg floor. I worked the for over 14 years before going to dialysis. And my knowledge base is outrageous. It's b...

2. old skills that we do not use anymore

   sassykitkatt replied to sassykitkatt's topic in General Nursing

   i still find it hard to wear gloves, especially when I used to give bed baths. And now that I am dialysis I have to think to put on gloves, because we deal in blood all the time and it cen get out of hand sometimes and all the nurses and one nepholo...

3. old skills that we do not use anymore

   sassykitkatt replied to sassykitkatt's topic in General Nursing

   You must have started about the same time I did about, 15 yrs. ago, And i remember those same things, but now the doctor think that you are his geoffer and lab finder. too scared to look up his own labs and reports. heaven forbid you challenge one of...

4. old skills that we do not use anymore

   sassykitkatt replied to sassykitkatt's topic in General Nursing

   Or how about when the child is choking, you pull their arms up over their head to stop them from choking. Upside down and arms over works. Old wives tells or not.

5. old skills that we do not use anymore

   sassykitkatt replied to sassykitkatt's topic in General Nursing

   You I forgot about the shaking thermometer. Shake it so hard, could bearly see the mercury and i still can palpate or even eyeball a BP

6. old skills that we do not use anymore

   sassykitkatt replied to sassykitkatt's topic in General Nursing

   I still don't believe that. I really think that loosens up the secretions and i would probably still use it. I have seen it still being used in the critical care area in the closed suctions systems.

7. old skills that we do not use anymore

   sassykitkatt replied to sassykitkatt's topic in General Nursing

   Wow I never heard of that. When was that used? This one girl told me about the Iron Lung that was for pneumonia patients. She said they used that up until the late 70's. But a rotating tourniquet, that would have been something to see and to use....

8. old skills that we do not use anymore

   sassykitkatt posted a topic in General Nursing

   hello, I was wondering if you guys were doing anything different now than we did before? Like before when we would suction trach patients we would squirt NS down the trach but now after clinical study they say we don't have to that anymore because i...