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AllMed Catalog :: Diagnostics :: Stethoscopes :: Trimline SafeSEAL® Replacement Parts SafeSEAL Soft Diaphragm Those are the only 2 links I can find... not sure where the company's are from. Do you have a stethoscope you must use them with? Or just like them because of the antimicrobial properties? Since they are so hard to find, you're probably better off just cleaning you stethoscope before patient contact with a cavi wipe at the beginning of your shift, and the bell/diaphragm with alcohol wipes in between patients...

I think it depends on who your patient population mostly is. I work in a PICU and we take pt's from birth to death, any and all ages. If they have a congenital or chronic disease of childhood they will come see us forever. I use my adult sized scope for my adult sized patients, which are very few. My peds sized scope is for 20kg and under, which I would say is probably 85-90% of the patients I take care of. My adult sized scope would never work well enough for me for my 3kg babies.

Since you're still in nursing school, I'd caution against a specifically pediatric stethoscope... what if you graduate and can't find a peds job? I hear they are getting hard to come by. A pediatric scope is just too small to use with large adults. If you want a scope that you can use for both peds and adults, the Littmann Cardiology III has a peds and adult side. They peds side you can use with either a diaphragm or bell, depending on what you need it for. I have this scope, although I use it just for my adult sized patients. I have a pediatric ultrascope to use with my little guys, which I didn't purchase until I got my peds job. (And as an aside, I love my ultrascope much more than my Littmann... If I hadn't of spent over $150 on the Littmann, I'd consider getting an adult sized ultrascope... much more light weight, and more personalized... I know immediately if someone's picked my ultrascope up unlike Littmann's that all look the same)

I always found when I had to wear whites that skin toned undies made even the thinnest scrubs virtually un-see through. I'd wear white, and bam, you could totally see them.

Cor-triatriatum?

I listen for "bears" when I listen with my stethoscope and I "measure your muscles" when I take your BP :) I totally agree with the prior poster, depending on my kiddo's age and maturity level depends on how I describe what I do.

I work at Akron Children's and my manager just hired a slew of new grads... There are still many RN positions posted on our website. There isn't a "new grad program" per se, but I'm pretty sure all the units hire new grads with an extensive orientation.

a brand... I think their website is aviatorscrubs.com

what about aviator scrubs?? they have lots of pockets and look pretty manly to me, even in purple :)

The faces scale isn't for you to interpret what their pain APPEARS to be, it's for you to show your patient and have them pick how their face feels with their pain... I use this all the time with my preschoolers, I show them the scale and they point to their pain. With an adult that is able to communicate with you, you should always be using the #'s scale, and what ever they say their pain is, it is, no matter what you think it is!

I'll be the third to recommend and ultrascope! They are much more affordable than a Littmann. I have a Littmann Cardiology III and a pediatric sized ultrascope. I work primarily with kids with congenital heart defects in a PICU, both pre and post surgery. It is essential that I can pick up on murmurs. I feel I can hear them much better with my ultrascope than my Littmann. Plus the ultrascope is so much lighter in weight than my Littmann. I almost cringe when I have an adult sized patient and I have to pull out my Littmann...

No, Ohio's renewal was this year. I think you had to be renewed by July 31.

I'm an Ohioan too... just like Meriwhen said, you just need to make sure you hold on to that CEU certificate for I think 7 years... CEU's are basically an honor system until you get audited, which I think they can go back 6 or 7 years, and you better have all your CEU certificates for them! Did you remember your law CEU too??

That sounds kinda scary... kids on continuous can go bad so quick! Anyone on continuous at my hospital buys a bed in the PICU! (We do not have a step down unit.) I don't take care of a lot of asthmatics, but I think they have to be getting albuterol puffs q2hrs and atrovent q4hrs before we'll send them to the regular floor.

There is a book called "Walk On Water" about Dr. Mee and the congenital heart program at the Cleveland Clinic. I read it last summer when I started taking care of our CHD babies... I really enjoyed it. It follows some families and babies there throughout their surgeries, all the goods and the bads. Quite interesting to see everything from so many perspectives.