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1. Understanding bladder scanning

   thumperxx replied to thumperxx's topic in Student Assist

   He had just voided actually, Has a history of cva. Would he need to be catheterised if he was retaining that much? thans

2. Understanding bladder scanning

   thumperxx posted a topic in Student Assist

   I understand that we bladder scan in order to check the post void residual urine in the bladder. So on the ward yesterday I was working with a nurse who was bladder scanning an elderly patient as he was not voiding very much. It showed up 550 mls. Th...

3. Will i be able to get back into it?

   thumperxx replied to thumperxx's topic in General Nursing

   Thanks guys x

4. Will i be able to get back into it?

   thumperxx replied to thumperxx's topic in General Nursing

   thamk you, you have reassured me quite a bit . thanks so much :)

5. Will i be able to get back into it?

   thumperxx posted a topic in General Nursing

   Hi everyone, i am a qualified nurse and am just about to start back on a general ward (medical / surgical). The thing is I just have 15 months of medical and surgical (some gynae) nursing experience and that was back in 2008. I then did some elderly...

6. Preparing IV antibiotics : Articles/Internet sites/ videos

   thumperxx replied to thumperxx's topic in Medications

   so i was back to work today and of course i had a patient on 1.2g co amoxiclav. So i went about putting the water in (20mls) very carefully. Of course once 10mls went in, it got very tricky and i was unable to continue pushing the rest of the water i...

7. Preparing IV antibiotics : Articles/Internet sites/ videos

   thumperxx replied to thumperxx's topic in Medications

   Im on a few weeks off at the moment. I work in a medical and surgical ward. I should be enjoying my time off but im trying to find out about drawing up antibiotics without all the crap. I have had help off of collegues but its always so busy and i ge...

8. Preparing IV antibiotics : Articles/Internet sites/ videos

   thumperxx replied to thumperxx's topic in Medications

   Thanks for your reply Silverdragon102! So basically when i begin , i shouldnt have to inject air into the vial is that correct? So then i just slowely as you said admit my 20mls of water for injection into the vial using the plunger intermittently? S...

9. Preparing IV antibiotics : Articles/Internet sites/ videos

   thumperxx replied to thumperxx's topic in Medications

   i meant is it that you withdraw 20mls of air like scotte said?ive never seen this done before? how do you do that?

10. Preparing IV antibiotics : Articles/Internet sites/ videos

    thumperxx replied to thumperxx's topic in Medications

    Thanks guys,I hope ye can help me.What I am i am doing is I draw up 20mls of water for injection into a syringe. Then I open the vial by flipping off the blue cap. Now I see a brown rubber thing on the top of the vial which i insert my needle into th...

11. Preparing IV antibiotics : Articles/Internet sites/ videos

    thumperxx replied to thumperxx's topic in Medications

    Hi everyone, I am new here.I am a new Nurse also and have just started my first job on a medical/ surgical ward.I am enjoying it alot. I am having difficulty though with preparing IV antibiotics. Ok so i want to give 1.2g of co- amoxiclav to a pt (bo...

12. Preparing IV antibiotics : Articles/Internet sites/ videos

    thumperxx posted a topic in Medications

    Hi everyone, I am new here.I am a new Nurse and have started my first job on a medical/ surgical ward.I am enjoying it alot. I am having difficulty though with preparing IV antibiotics. I am getting help from senior nurses and i am studying as much a...