silverheart

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1. nusing agencies in north georgia and/or atlanta area

   silverheart replied to mtnmom's topic in Agency

   Welcome to the agency world! :balloons: I live in Tennessee but Hospital Resource Personnel staffs in both states, TN and GA. I've had friends staffed all the way down to Atlanta. Their office is located in Chattanooga,TN and if you would like more i...

2. New Year's Baby

   silverheart replied to OBNURSEHEATHER's topic in Ob/Gyn

   Ours was at 0525. First in the county and outlying areas. One year we had to wait for half the month before ours was born. We are a small hospital also.

3. Greetings

   silverheart replied to Danuttmahn's topic in Emergency

   Welcome and Good Luck! I started nursing school when I was 23 and I was "over the hill" then. (14 yrs. ago) So don't sweat that. We have a family practice doctor that was a RN prior to med. school. I consider ourselves lucky to have her. It defin...

4. New use for Tylenol?

   silverheart replied to mattcastens's topic in General Nursing

   My young son had a hernia repair and the surgeon pulled me aside and said to give my son Tylenol to help him rest. When I questioned it the surgeon replied that Tylenol was original made for a sleep aid not a pain reliever. You could have knocked m...

5. most and least favorite DX to care for?

   silverheart replied to MollyJ's topic in General Nursing

   Most Disliked Dx: GI bleeds, Anything to do with activated charcoal(Yuck) Anything cardiac (not my specialty) and something i call "The Death Watchers" (family members that are not close to the pts. that stand around the bed just waiting) and family ...

6. more on pit inductions

   silverheart replied to TracyRN's topic in Ob/Gyn

   I haven't posted very much but I have enjoyed reading the posts. We call them convenience inductions. Ours are because the doc won't be in town, etc. We just had a couple of inductions at 38 weeks for no good reason. Only one of our docs (out of 5, s...