Nurses General Nursing
Published Apr 10, 2002
woo 2
32 Posts
doing a nursing ed project on simple instructions for coumadin and heparin, trying to simply for new nurses and help to build critical thinking skills any ideas how we can make this a fun project/ we were thinking of red flags and putting why they would be contraindicated and lab values any input appreciated :chuckle
jschut, BSN, RN
2,743 Posts
I don't know if this is what your looking for or not, but if you count the letters in
Coumadin and PT (the test for checking the protime)
there's 10 letters.
The same for Heparin and PTT
10 letters
Our instructors taught us that so we wouldn't get the two mixed up.
Hope this helps!
Julie:)