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  1. How often do you wash your scrubs? :)

    Well since I only walk in the visitor accessible areas in my regular clothes (I don't pass through any inpatient units on my way out), I don't pick up all that much ickies (no poop or projectile vomiting for instance). Of course there are germs all o...
  2. How often do you wash your scrubs? :)

    This is so strange to me, in Europe we don't wear our scrubs to or from work, we change in the locker rooms at our units (and there is a shower available there as well). Our scrubs are provided by the hospital and are washed as needed (typically you ...
  3. Nurse Gives Lethal Dose of Vecuronium Instead of Versed

    This just makes me think of the episode of Friends where Joey has his face plastered all over NYC in a commercial for a clinic with the caption "What Mario isn't telling you is that he has VD."
  4. Experienced CRNA...ask me anything

    While I think it is unprofessionnal (and potentially unsafe) of any member of the team (surgery or anesthesia) to ignore the timeout and any case related communication, most anesthesia trained people are aware of HR and whatnot modifications even if ...
  5. Minimum ICU experience

    I had 6 years of experience (first surgical floor, then ICU) when I went back to school. In my class there are people who have been in nursing for quite a while and only one or two who have been nursing for 2 years. I don't really buy the "past 5 yea...
  6. New name for nursing career?

    I come from Eastern Europe and have an appropriately long and scary last name. People call me by my first name or massacre the last name, I endure. Do whatever feels right, it really doesn't matter much.
  7. Can Pain Be Prevented?

    And we found out the hard way that seems to not be a great way to do that either (chronic pain epidemic in our waters....). Yep, we're more about that now. Also, non medicated interventions (cold / heat / TENS....).
  8. Should nurses be able to listen to music at work?

    I worked nights for 8 years and we often played music at a low volume in the nurses station (we agreed on music selection). I now work in the OR and music is often played. It doesn't impede my concentration. In a critical situation we usually turn it...
  9. How confident are you with reading tele

    I am pretty durn confident withing the margins of my scope of practice in France not permitting me to initiate treatment on my sole decision. However, where there times where I called the guy on call saying "I believe patient X is in afib, would you ...
  10. Can Pain Be Prevented?

    And yet, paracetamol + opioid = synergy (the sum of the two is greater than the effect of one + the effect of the other), so it would probably have been interesting to include it despite you needing the opoids. And that is why an opioid prescripti...
  11. Can Pain Be Prevented?

    In the context of my anesthesia nursing studies I am following a class on pain management this year (in France, nurse anesthesists are specialised in anesthesia, but also pain managment, emergency care and intensive care). One of the things of which ...
  12. Anxiety rated on a 0-10 scale is what test?

    I am ressurecting this discussion; I am looking into information about the Face Anxiety Scale. [ATTACH=CONFIG]25645[/ATTACH] I have read several articles by McKinley but can not locate the precise intervention threshold, how they categorise (is face...
  13. CRNA in Europe

    I am in my last year of studies to become an anesthesia nurse in France, if you want info.
  14. If not nursing what other career would you have done?

    Some line of cooking, possibly pastries and desserts. Something in applied arts, like costume and prop work for plays or TV/film ? I actually did an elective course in art, and it was tough but I loved it :) but not imaginative enough and not talente...
  15. Except for Isoprenaline, which isn't a typical code blue drug, but can be used for complete AV bloc (which can be so slow and inefficient that no circulation is taking place); it should be titrated until an acceptable rythm is obtained; if you push i...