Stethoscopes....

SmilingBluEyes · Sep 2, 2003

Yes I do. always. And YES I use it.

renerian, BSN, RN · Sep 2, 2003

I do.

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Katnip, RN · Sep 2, 2003

I do.

Jenn CLPN · Sep 2, 2003

I always carry mine. I dont want to put my ear in something that has had other peoples in it. Sometimes you dont have time to clean it with a alcohol prep. I use a Littman, very good brand, you can hear very good with it.:)

Paige Turner RN · Sep 2, 2003

Me too

susi_q · Sep 2, 2003

How could you get thru a shift without one? Every patient should have at least one manual bp done by the nurse every day, and we need to be assessing and re-assessing lungs, heart, bowels. Can't be done any other way that I know of.

fourbirds4me · Sep 2, 2003

I did say that this was L&D right? We do q30min vitals.... but we have automatic everything and to be honest... I don't think we have a manual BP cuff on the floor. Like I said we have a cheapie stethoscope in every room and that's what I've been using to assess. I think one of the reasons that the hospital puts one in every room is to control infection etc.... I just know that no one on our unit brings their own.....

Mint Julip · Sep 3, 2003

I own three and I always carry one of them. Ya just never know.

live4today, RN · Sep 3, 2003

I like the idea of hospitals providing the stethoscopes in every patient room to control infection/passing germs between patients, etc. Great idea fourbirds4me! :)

I carry my own steth, but hate thinking about what could be cultured off of it in any given day. :eek:

babynurse32 · Sep 3, 2003

WHen I am working on the post partum end I carry my own, but in the L&D I use what they hospital has in there. We too do vitals on the automatic machine and never use a manual cuff in the labor room.

Wackyswirly · Sep 6, 2003

I work in postpartum/antepartum and I carry my own. My charge nurse borrowed mine the other night (a Littman Classic, I think) and raved about how much better she could hear with it than the cheapies we have lying around everywhere. I hate to think what people are missing if they're using the ones the hospital provides.