lisa333

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1. Arterial Line Tubing Change

   lisa333 replied to lisa333's topic in Critical

   Thanks everybody. My hospital doesn't have a policy on this (or most things.) I've been trying out changing it down to the hub lately and it seems to work okay even if it makes a mess. It's definitely tricky on combative patients who are trying ...

2. Arterial Line Tubing Change

   lisa333 replied to lisa333's topic in Critical

   Thanks for your comment! What I find fascinating is that no one I've talked to is sheepishly claiming they disconnect it at the valve because they're lazy- they insist that's how they were taught to do it! It seems like both methods are just confiden...

3. Arterial Line Tubing Change

   lisa333 posted a topic in Critical

   This question came up recently on my unit and I'm curious if anyone has any resource material to back up their position other than "this is how I was taught to do it!" Let's say your patient has an arterial line and the tubing is due to be chang...

4. How often should healthcare workers be tested for COVID?

   lisa333 replied to DesiDani's topic in COVID

   I go to a free community testing site every 2 weeks to get tested for my own peace of mind. My hospital certainly has no interest in testing me.

5. Temperature checks for Employees

   lisa333 replied to travelingrn2001's topic in COVID

   How can these infrared thermometers possibly be accurate? I take my temperature orally every day before I go to work with a cheap thermometer and it always reads a believable number between 97.5 and 99.0. When I get to work, they check my temperature...

6. Advocating for Nurses: Allow Nurses Their Own PPE

   lisa333 replied to AmericanNurseAdvocates's topic in COVID

   We had a hospital-wide order that all staff wear surgical masks while on hospital property. About half the staff comply. Even in my ICU where about a third of the patients are COVID +, only about half the nurses wear a surgical mask at the nurse's st...

7. Masks at the nurse's station

   lisa333 replied to lisa333's topic in MICU

   Well they changed the policy so then we were each issued an expired N95 for each week to wear at the nurse's station. As long as you replaced the brittle elastic straps with new rubber bands, they seemed to work OK (they were just kind of smelly afte...

8. Masks at the nurse's station

   lisa333 posted a topic in MICU

   Hi all, I work in a trauma ICU. We currently have enough PPE to wear when taking care of COVID-19 patients or rule out patients. My question is about how you are protecting yourself in the hospital in general. I am practicing social distancing at hom...

9. Resume for experienced RN in rural setting

   lisa333 posted a topic in Job Hunt

   Hi all, I have four years experience in a rural community hospital ICU. I'm now trying to move back to an urban area, but have some concern about what to put on my resume. The vast majority of patients we care for are pretty basic. Mostly bipaps and ...

10. Conflicted about interview with fancy hospital

    lisa333 posted a topic in Job Hunt

    Hi all,Well, after applying for hundreds of jobs, I never thought I'd find myself trying to choose between two hospitals!A little background- a year after passing the NCLEX, I took a job at an outpatient clinic. I stayed there for a year, but still d...

11. Advice for making the most of a short orientation?

    lisa333 replied to lisa333's topic in New Nurse

    It's for a Long Term Acute Care floor of a hospital. I wouldn't be cross-trained to the other floors, so I'd only be with the long term acute care patients. They're supposed to be the most stable patients in the hospital, but because it's technically...

12. Advice for making the most of a short orientation?

    lisa333 posted a topic in New Nurse

    Hi all, I was wondering if anyone on here had received a shorter orientation than they were expecting for a hospital position. I've basically been offered my dream position at a local hospital, but my orientation will be one week. I'm a relatively ne...

13. This is getting ridiculous!!

    lisa333 replied to sunnycalifRN's topic in MICU

    I'm so glad someone else commented on this! I was worried I was the only one dealing with these shortages. My clinic uses fentanyl and versed for conscious sedation and we're now out of both! We're doing our best to replace them with combinations of ...

14. new grad prospects after ambulatory surgery?

    lisa333 posted a topic in New Nurse

    Hi all, I graduated in April 2010 and got my RN license in June 2010. I looked desperately for a new grad hospital job, because I really wanted to have a solid foundation in medical/surgical nursing. Unfortunately, after a year of applying, I still h...

15. Alameda County

    lisa333 replied to Kelliqua's topic in California

    I got an email March 23rd that said: "Congratulations! Your application for Registered Nurse I indicates that you meet the minimum qualifications for the examination. Your name has been placed on the eligible list with a total score of 80. At thi...