memphispanda

memphispanda RN

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About memphispanda

memphispanda is a RN and specializes in Med-Surg.


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  1. Hurst Online Review...other review courses

    I took Hurst review in person and then online--we got a big discount if we had been to the review in person. It was extremely helpful. I would loved to have taken it prior to my last nursing course--the information and her presentation would have c...
  2. When to report a classmaste to your clinical instructor.

    We use "insulin" syringes for heparin. We have two sizes--one is a 30 unit syringe, the other is a 100 unit syringe. The 100 unit syringe also has markings for tenths of a cc up to one cc--which is slightly more than 100 units. Obviously these sy...
  3. Why do RN's with ASN and BSN make the same?

    You are paid for the job you do. I have a BA in social science. I worked for years teaching preschool in a daycare so I could be near my kids during the day but still make money. I was one of two or three with a degree of any sort working there. ...
  4. Multiple morphine orders for pain

    I work on a floor where we often get hospice patients or have patients that are being referred to hospice. We many times have people on multiple pain meds because that's what they require to have any quality of life at all. Usually they have some...
  5. Reading TB skin test

    I am very very frustrated with my husband's "nurse" at the MDs office right now. We are trying to get him on Remicade for Crohn's, and that involves having the PPD done. First PPD they said was 4mm. I had already been watching it at home--it has ...
  6. SCD's and TED hose

    Usually both...I don't particularly like either. The TEDs are so slick they have been the cause of several falls/near falls even though we make sure patients have slippers of some sort to put on. The SCDs make the patients feel "strapped down" and ...
  7. IVPB tubing change

    I backflush. I don't see any reason to dump the tubing and get a new one. That's an additional access to the system that is totally unnecessary.
  8. Baptist, Memphis, Nurses

    Let's see... As a new nurse, I am VERY glad we have the MRT. I trust myself to see when a pt is having problems, but sometimes there are easy fixes that I am not yet totally aware of. Chart reviews--sometimes all I get to (and the other members of ...
  9. Blood culture techniques???

    Uhh...I think the "lowly med tech" comment was directed at the attitude the MDs have towards the med techs and others--as in they aren't even important enough to bother remembering their names, etc. Not that the OP of that comment thought the med te...
  10. Baptist, Memphis, Nurses

    I don't work at Baptist, but we do have a "Medical Response Team" that we call when we have a pt who is going bad but not ready to code yet. We have a pager number we call, and that gets us a respiratory therapist, the house supervisor, and an ICU ...
  11. Wound Vac

    PT does our wound vacs. They are trained to do it, we are not, so that's the reasoning behind it at my place of employment!
  12. Milk or No Milk-that is the question

    The gluten free-casein free dite must be followed strictly for up to 6 months in order for changes to be seen in most children who could benefit from the diet. And keep in mind that there aren't that many kids who do actually show a benefit from the...
  13. A 4.0 and now this...

    How stable is the telecom job? Would you possibly be laid off again in a year or two? Did you enjoy the work? What are your reasons for considering getting into nursing? Only you can choose what's best for you.
  14. Can you be a nurse with a suspended record?

    Keep in mind that it is Sunday morning, many members may be in church or working. Also there probably aren't a huge number of members who have the information you seek so it could take some time for the "right" person to see your post.
  15. Ativan usage?

    We only use Ativan for agitation and DT prevention (my floor is oncology, urology, med/surg). Our chemo patients have had great success with anzemet for nausea.