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1. New isolation/visiting policies at our hospital, are they going to be at yours???

   skap replied to skap's topic in General Nursing

   Glad to hear something positive! I'm glad to know that it is working where you work. I only hope the same for our hospital. Thanks for your reply.... skap

2. New isolation/visiting policies at our hospital, are they going to be at yours???

   skap posted a topic in General Nursing

   I work in a pediatric hospital and as of May 1st we will have a policy in place due to the Department of Public Health that when a parent or anyone visiting is in the room with their child that is in isolation they will have to wear all of the isolat...

3. Recent JCAHO survey? How'd it go?

   skap replied to plumrn's topic in General Nursing

   I work on a floor that has children that are in our "habilitation" program. They aren't critical enough to be in the PICU, but aren't ready to go home yet...parents have to learn care, more stabilization, gain weight, etc.... When we start we are giv...

4. Recent JCAHO survey? How'd it go?

   skap replied to plumrn's topic in General Nursing

   We had ours a couple of weeks ago. When they came to our floor they took a nurse that had a certain patient, and then went through the chart with her for over an hour,then they followed that patients trips throughout the hospital, (ie: er, x-ray, pic...

5. old skills that we do not use anymore

   skap replied to sassykitkatt's topic in General Nursing

   Amen Cheerfuldoer!!!! Well said, I totally agree with you, and I've only been a nurse for a little over 5 years....it's like "Big Brother" is watching......

6. Wart Question

   skap replied to RNsweetie's topic in General Nursing

   I'm surprised no one has recommend Tea Tree Oil! It works AWESOME!! My husband had warts around his fingertips for YEARS before I met him, went to the dermatologist, many many rounds of burning them off but the ALWAYS came back. He read online about ...

7. Medication barcoding: Do you use it??

   skap posted a topic in General Nursing

   Our hospital is starting barcoding soon, we will have to scan the med, and scan the pt ID bracelet, and our badge before giving meds. Does anyone currently use this, and if so how do you like it? Any problems you've noticed with it? Any suggestions t...

8. malpractice insurance

   skap replied to shelbabyrn's topic in General Nursing

   The hospital that I work at covers us. If we were to get our own malpractice insurance, and something happened, the hospital would not cover us, or help us out in anyway.

9. What is the dumbest order you ever read?

   skap replied to SherRN's topic in General Nursing

   Boy, working with residents I see a lot, but lord knows I can't remember them now. The only one that sticks out in my mind is and is still my favorite is "pacifier to bedside" for an infant. YIKES!

10. Anyone from the South Suburbs of Chicago?

    skap replied to Hooligan's topic in General Nursing

    Bean- I live in the suburbs of Chicago, I work at Children's in Chicago and really enjoy it. Work nights, traffic is good 35-45 min on a good day, free parking, good pt to nurse ratio. I went to school out in in the burbs...where are you going? A lot...

11. Residents tagging along w/ an RN

    skap posted a topic in General Nursing

    Curious- Anyone think it would be a good idea for it to be required in their residency to have to tag along with a nurse for 2-3 days. It would give them an idea of what we go through. So they wouldn't go in and turn the oxygen off on a patient be...

12. Let the next shift deal with it...

    skap replied to night owl's topic in General Nursing

    Roamin- I think it's a problem for all night shifters. We are mostly on time if not 10 minutes early..sitting in the break room. Boy do they all want to give report to us right away, early if we let them. In the morning you'll have a few who are on...

13. How does your hospital/unit handle call ins?

    skap replied to deespoohbear's topic in General Nursing

    At the hospital I work at we're allowed 5 call-in's a year. It's a rolling year too. With the 6th call in we get a verbal warning, the 7th one we get a written warning, the 8th one we get a day suspension, the 9th we get terminated. I've never seen a...

14. Azythromycin IV in peds pt?

    skap replied to rck213's topic in Pediatric

    At the hospital I work at we have used IV Azithromycin on pediatric patients. Haven't had a problem that I know of yet.

15. PICC lines

    skap replied to stnurse421's topic in Pediatric

    I have a lot of experience with PICC lines - using them that is. All of our CF patients get PICC lines the day that they are admitted for their antibiotic therapy. They are nice and easy to use. Great for blood draws and you don't really have the ri...