Change!

I am only in nursing 6 years so I can't help much, but I wanted to say that is a beautiful dog in your avatar!

Thank you! :) Nicky is my baby--all 110 pounds of him! :paw:

hey girl,

I've been nursing for about 7 years and the major trend changes are wound dressings, they tend to change every 5 mins.

hello there!

been working for only 2years but i agree that the major trend changes are in wound dressing.

Wound dressings are definitely changing! Salaries have also increased as well as sign-on incentive and benefits (largely depending upon your area). I have also seen an increase in BSN graduates and RN to BSN students. Increase in unlicensed assistive personnel (at least in my area over the years). Need I mention NANDA diagnoses!

I have been a nurse for 12 yrs. I agree with the above about wound dsgs. they do constantly change. The following things off the top of my head are computerized charting, medications change all the time, jacho (sp. ?), the length of stay. That is all I can think of right now!

(P.S. That is a beautiful dog!! Is he a lab?)

Definetly, wound care! Anybody mention the discontinued use of H2O2??? How 'bout air in peripheral lines?

For me, it seems patients are zipped in and out of the hospital faster than ever.

The biggest, most noticible change I've seen, since I began many years ago as a nurse's assisant, is wearing gloves and other personal protective equipment. Antother change is that the dress code was primarily white pants & white shoes, nowadays it seems as though any scrub will do...

I hadn't given H2O2 much thought, but now that you mentioned it, we don't use it anymore... we also don't use betadine, I'm not real sure when we eliminated them.

How about clamping chest tubes, we used to do that regularly, not so much anymore...

Have Fun & God Bless, jkk

Things have changed so much since I started, I cant even begin to enumerate them all