ahorton75

ahorton75 has 1 years experience.

Latest Activity

1. What med surg skills do med surg nurses do about 80% of the time?

   ahorton75 replied to Sara-Allison's topic in Med-Surg

   A lot really just depends on your unit. I have a lot of admissions/discharges/education. I also give a good bit of blood products. There are definitely days where I have pretty gnarly, and time consuming dressing changes. Tracheostomy care. Ostomy c...

2. Is this a new trend?

   ahorton75 replied to hppygr8ful's topic in General Nursing

   In my major hospital system, we are no longer allowed to use briefs. We are to use bed pans or bed side commodes. For our incontinent patients we use a towel and a chuck. The reasoning is that briefs hold moisture and lead to skin breakdown. With ...

3. Nurses: What Helps You The Most?

   ahorton75 replied to 1life2love's topic in General Nursing

   Communication. Let's make a plan at beginning of shift for our heavy patients for bathing, turning, dressing changes, etc. Let me know if your assignment is ridiculous so I can put in extra effort to ease it a bit.

4. My preceptors were awesome!

   ahorton75 replied to NightNerd's topic in General Nursing

   What I did for mine was a gift bag of odds and ends that we use every day...pen, pencils, scissors, cute hair bands, granola bars, water bottle in a placed in a lunch bag.

5. unsafe new nurse

   ahorton75 replied to juana15's topic in New Nurse

   It's a mistake. You'll make plenty. I know I have. What is important is to be able to center yourself and think things through. You have to slow yourself down and focus your brain on the more critical stuff. I still talk myself through stuff to m...

6. Code situation

   ahorton75 replied to KeitanTaylor's topic in General Students

   Absolutely not. Codes are ugly and traumatizing. The focus is on keeping the patient alive...not on gentle or kind. To a family member it would appear mean and chaotic and devoid of emotion. Intubation, multiple attempts at arterial lines, defibr...