st4304

st4304 specializes in Critical Care, Emergency, Infusion.

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1. Smoking during pregnancy

   st4304 posted a topic in Ob/Gyn

   OB Nurses: Is there any condition during pregnancy in which a physician would recommend a woman not stop smoking? Pre-eclampsia? Epilepsy? Can any of you provide a link to a study or literature that shows quitting smoking cold turkey is harmful ...

2. CRH or Schneck Medical Center

   st4304 replied to heedy11's topic in Indiana

   I worked at CRH for 10 yrs, and many of the nurses I worked with left Seymour to work at CRH, so I guess that tells you something! LOL I feel the need to defend a few things the previous poster stated. The new NM on the PCU was left a mess by the p...

3. How do you get to be an infusion nurse ?

   st4304 replied to JoAnna McNurse's topic in Infusion

   If you live in or near a large city, most of the larger hospitals will have an IV team or PICC team. You do have to have specialized training in PICC/MLC placement, but most train you on the job. I am part owner of an infusion nurse agency. We cont...

4. Clean vs Aseptic IV Starts

   st4304 replied to danh3190's topic in Infusion

   I didn't take the time to look for research (sorry!), but according to the Infusion Nursing Standards of Practice to which nurses are held in the US regarding invasive line placement, only midline, arterial, central, and PICCs are required to be plac...

5. Graduation gift for new nurse

   st4304 replied to st4304's topic in New Nurse

   Thank you all for your wonderful suggestions! In fact many of them sounded pretty darn good for gifts for old and tired nurses like me (especially the foot massage and spa.............aaaaaaah.) Anyway, again thank you and I just want to say one mor...

6. how can you learn to get by with less sleep (night shifter)

   st4304 replied to chenoaspirit's topic in General Nursing

   This may not be the reply you want to read and I am sure there will be other posters who will disagree with me, but if you have not adjusted to night shifts after 2 years, then I think you probably never will. Also, isn't life too short to sleep th...

7. PICCs in Indiana hospitals

   st4304 replied to st4304's topic in Indiana

   Indiana Nurses Rock BTW! Sherri

8. Sites for PICC preceptorship

   st4304 replied to ART96's topic in Infusion

   philly22-- I'm sorry! My question about starting an infusion team was referring back to the original poster - ART96. I was just thinking back in the day when I was a new PICC nurse how daunting it would have been for ME to start a new infusion team/...

9. Sites for PICC preceptorship

   st4304 replied to ART96's topic in Infusion

   "The criteria is that you come for 2-3 days and have a minimum of 3 successful insertions prior to finishing your training." I precept nurses in hospitals where 10-15 PICCs are ordered per day and we get to do as many as we can without killing ourse...

10. PICCs in Indiana hospitals

    st4304 posted a topic in Indiana

    I know that most of the hospitals in the larger cities have their own infusion/PICC teams, but what about the smaller hospitals in the rural areas? Do you use infusion agencies, or are all IR placed? Are the patient's sent to larger facilities for ...

11. Graduation gift for new nurse

    st4304 posted a topic in New Nurse

    My daughter is graduating from nursing school next month. Any unique ideas for a gift? She has requested a PDA, and I will probably get her one, but other family members keep asking me for ideas and I have run out. Thanks, Sherri

12. Will Nursing's Reputation Suffer?

    st4304 replied to TraumaICURN's topic in General Nursing

    Thank you! I have been wondering what happened to those nurses and the physician accused. My heart went out to them and everyone involved (accept the prosecutor, of course). I guess the charges being dropped is not "newsworthy" or juicy enough to m...

13. Hospital or LTC Facility???

    st4304 replied to mammaoftwo's topic in General Nursing

    When you write LTC Facility do you mean nursing home? Just curious. I use to work in a staffing pool for an LTAC and floated between three LTACs. For those who don't know, an LTAC is a 'long-term acute care' facility. I would take care of patie...

14. Do you enjoy TV surgical/medical shows?

    st4304 replied to MSJ2007's topic in General Nursing

    Early in my nursing career, my husband would tease me for watching ER. He worked in road construction and would say "You don't see me watching shows about pouring concrete or laying asphalt!" Of course, my response was, "If it was a show of Pamela ...

15. Reconciling professionalism with patient attitudes.

    st4304 replied to twistedpupchaser's topic in General Nursing

    Right on, Tazzi. Make sure his doc knows about this behavior -- this patient is going to be noncompliant post-surgery and post-discharge too. AND he'll be the first one to sue for malpractice when his leg never heals, so document everything and CYB.