panda_181

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1. Phenergan?

   panda_181 replied to RN92's topic in General Nursing

   Funny...we have a couple of British doctors and they always use Phenergan instead of Gravol...on Maternity I'm talking about. We give it IV push quite often and I have never heard any of them complain about how much it burns. And it's 25mg that we ...

2. Charting by exception

   panda_181 replied to sharann's topic in General Nursing

   Well...I agree that there are few that really don't chart anything, but that's what the flow sheets are for...you putting your initial or however it is at your hospital is acknowledging that you have assessed that part of your patient. That should h...

3. My First "Bad" Baby!!

   panda_181 replied to Darchild77's topic in Ob/Gyn

   Scary, but a big feeling of accomplishment at the same time! I would have been making my pants a little dirty myself...I thankfully have not had to deal with that by myself yet, there have always been more experienced people with me. Amanda :)

4. Is this correct?

   panda_181 replied to Future_RN's topic in General Nursing

   At our college we were not allowed to practice on each other...liabilty reasons I would assume. Some of us would have liked to practice, just to see how things went, but we used the little saline bag that was thick so simulate going through skin. W...

5. Exposed to HIV, HBV, HCV

   panda_181 replied to mattsmom81's topic in General Nursing

   I think that's just horrible! Something needs to be done...talk to whoever you have to so that this is fixed and you're looked after. Amanda :)

6. moms and babies staying together

   panda_181 replied to PegRNBSN's topic in Ob/Gyn

   Well...in our hospital...if they want them in the nursery for the night and we're able to accomodate, they stay in the nursery. If it gets really busy, then we wheel them back to their mothers. I haven't heard any complaints personally...they obvio...

7. nurse patient ratio on nites

   panda_181 replied to niteshiftnurse's topic in General Nursing

   Medicine has 6-7 patients per nurse (RN or LPN) - 30 patient unit Surgery has usually 5 (RN or LPN) - 20 patient unit Continuting Care has 2 NAs and 1 RN on an 8 hour night - 30 resident unit, sometimes a respite patient. Amanda :)

8. fractured ribs...any suggestions?

   panda_181 replied to nursebear's topic in General Nursing

   What's an HH patient?

9. Pitocin after placenta delivery

   panda_181 replied to verock's topic in General Nursing

   The way we do it is there is 20u in a bag of 1000cc 2/3-1/3, but we also push 5u either after the delivery of the placenta or the baby's shoulders, depending on the doctor. Amanda :)

10. Questions, questions ..

    panda_181 replied to coffeejavule's topic in General Nursing

    Yeah, the only thing that means is that there are a lot of older nurses compared to younger ones... Amanda :)

11. Umbilical cord care

    panda_181 replied to AlaskaKat's topic in Ob/Gyn

    That's right...alcohol was thrown out the window here because they found it took less time for the cords to fall off if they used plain water. And we don't tell them to sponge bath anymore either...just dunk 'em right in! Amanda :)

12. Freak Accident! (sorry kinda long)

    panda_181 replied to TheMagicCookie's topic in General Nursing

    I'm so glad that everything worked out for you...Someone had His eye on you for sure! Scary stuff...when you think it's something so innocent... Amanda :)

13. What is your least favorite.....

    panda_181 replied to New CCU RN's topic in General Nursing

    I would have to say that one of the things I least like to do is... Smell post-op breath! With the combination of not eating for hours on end and having anesthetic go through your system...it smells the same all the time and it's gross every single ...

14. IM injections

    panda_181 replied to ragingmomster's topic in General Nursing

    The only part that won't get to the patient is the tiny bit that's in the needle itself...and that's not even really 0.1mLs. To prevent anything leaking back out after you remove the needle we were taught to hold the needle in place for 3 seconds af...

15. Do you have to pay for parking?

    panda_181 replied to JJFROG's topic in General Nursing

    We pay a monthly fee for parking, and it's really not that much. I think it's only abour $15 a month. In a close-by city, at one of their smaller hospitals, it's $30 or so. You get a plug-in stall (it gets -40 Celsius here in the winter) and it's ...