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1. fundal checks

   pirap replied to short1978's topic in Ob/Gyn

   Check your orders also-some doctors specifically state NO FUNDAL CHECKS..JUST FYI

2. GE Centricity EMR charting

   pirap posted a topic in General Nursing

   Is anyone out there using GE Centricity EMR (Electronic Medical Record) Charting? Just wondering how it is working for your specific department and what changes has your department/hospital made to make it specifically fit your nursing area? We went...

3. Tips for surviving adult floors when you want to be in peds?

   pirap replied to cherubhipster's topic in General Nursing

   I have a teaching degree in Elementary/Middle and taught some too and now I am on Mother/Baby and LOVE IT. You just work your way through Med/Surg in nursing school..everyone does. I worked Med/Surg for a year after graduation and learned and maste...

4. Hostility towards diabetics

   pirap replied to FireStarterRN's topic in General Nursing

   Unless you have diabetes you have no idea what it is like. You can be told this, that and something else but IT IS HARD. Generally speaking the type 2's in the MAJORITY of circumstances are in the overweight to obese category. In my opinion it is ...

5. Prolotherapy and Epidurals

   pirap posted a topic in Ob/Gyn

   I teach a childbirth class/work postpartum and one of my students has had prolo therapy in her lower back. I have never heard of it and she was wondering if she could have an epidural. I believe her therapy was in the lumbar area. Prolotherapy fo...

6. Dialysis RNs?

   pirap replied to uscstu4lfe's topic in General Nursing

   My mother has been a dialysis nurse for over 15 years. She is an LPN. Anyway, dialysis is a very hard and demanding job. You are constantly on your feet and stay bent over a lot helping patients. You are required to lift/carry 50 plus pounds of j...

7. *Sigh* Can't wait to get past this...

   pirap replied to Bumashes's topic in General Nursing

   I put a year in med/surg with often 7 pts a shift. Things get hectic I know. Just hang in there...you are so new. If this is not your type of nursing--learn EVERYTHING you can, do the best you can and when you go home don't worry about it. Your "...

8. does age REALLY matter?

   pirap replied to pinkynbd_99's topic in General Nursing

   i am 36 years old and have not been in nursing that long. when i was in orientation there was an rn that became a nurse in her late 40's that was 74 years old..yes 74 years and she could work circles around me. i never thought she was day over 40. ...

9. New admission

   pirap replied to mom4josh's topic in General Nursing

   We are a busy mother baby unit and sometimes we have 20 plus ADMISSIONS and the same discharges EVERYDAY!!!! Sometimes I get 2 admits and 2-3 discharges...just goes with the job. Our charge nurse tries to look at acuity first and then the admits ar...

10. Post Partum Recovery Time

    pirap replied to rn4babies63's topic in General Nursing

    our policy is a minimum of 1 hour in recovery following a vaginal delivery. some nurses hang onto their patients forever and the faster ones drop off and get a new one-totally not fair. some nurses hang onto their patients as long as they can only ...

11. Nursing, Smoking, and Kids

    pirap replied to JettaDP's topic in General Nursing

    i wouldn't confront these people but you are right..it is child abuse.. can you imagine what it must be like in a car with the windows rolled up and someone sucking on cigarette after cigarette with these poor helpless souls strapped in the car with ...

12. I Dislike Nursing:

    pirap replied to Barlan's topic in General Nursing

    i started a nursing program in 1996 and quit because of some of the same things you describe. i did a clinical rotation at a va hospital in virginia and saw how some of the staff treated our veterans and decided that there was no way in hell that i ...

13. jealousy/avoidance of top students?

    pirap replied to queenjane's topic in General Nursing

    Our tests were posted by pin numbers we created and so occasionally, early in our program, my best friend would check mine for me if they were posted after I left. I was the top student until the very last semester out of a class of 150, worked FULL...

14. Should I? - Surgical Tech Program in 1 year before NS?

    pirap replied to in2ICU's topic in General Nursing

    if you have a year and don't want to sit idle i vote for pursuing the surgical tech program. in areas such as labor/deliver the nurse manager in our hospital requires scrub experience due to increase rate of c/s and if the rn is already experienced ...

15. Nursing School Books

    pirap replied to jst81161's topic in General Nursing

    Almost ALL my books were the older edition. If the class was using edition 8 I had edition 7. IT NEVER MADE A DIFFERENCE. Our Med/Surg books were almost identical except for a few pictures and maybe a different consulting nurse or doctor here and ...