dylanmc

dylanmc has 1 years experience and specializes in Oncology/Tele.

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1. Nursing student asks nurses the question..

   dylanmc replied to 2bNurseDR.T's topic in General Nursing

   Ah. That makes more sense.

2. What is the Registered Nurse Patient Ratio at your hospital?

   dylanmc replied to LinenP's topic in General Nursing

   Tele/Oncology floor, they shoot for 1:4 on days and nights. Occasionally day nurses will have 1:6, and a little bit more frequently night nurses will also be 1:6. Never more than that though. Mid-sized town in Midwest, decently big hospital.

3. Blood backup in IVs

   dylanmc replied to dylanmc's topic in General Nursing

   I'm guessing when he got up to go to the bathroom he somehow dislodged his port and simultaneously somehow the secondary line which was running continuous fluids came loose too.

4. Blood backup in IVs

   dylanmc replied to dylanmc's topic in General Nursing

   Thank you so much! That is the only explanation I could think of, was that it just quickly backed up with blood when the continuous fluids got disconnected. She basically said there was no way that the line could have filled up with blood that fast, ...

5. Nursing student asks nurses the question..

   dylanmc replied to 2bNurseDR.T's topic in General Nursing

   Wow I think people have been pretty harsh to you for this comment, I don't see it as accusatory or rude in any way. I work at the teaching hospital my school was connected to and I'm a newish grad, so I did many clinicals in the hospital on various u...

6. Blood backup in IVs

   dylanmc posted a topic in General Nursing

   I have a question. So a few days ago I had a patient who was running continuous NS w/ K at 50ml/hr through a chest port, and he also had a PCA pump which only was set up to give bolus doses (not continuous), and they were basically Y-sited with the P...