NurseTink

NurseTink has 15 years experience and specializes in Ortho/Joint/Trauma.

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1. Are You Using the Right Mask?

   NurseTink replied to indigo girl's topic in COVID

   I work in a 1200 bed, level one trauma, teaching facility. We were told that all influenza A cases this year are turning out to be H1N1 by CDC reports from last week. As of last week we have stopped using a special respiratory isolation and now are ...

2. Coumadin vs. Lovenox after joint replacement

   NurseTink replied to natkat2816's topic in Orthopaedic

   In the past couple of years the AAOS have determined that Coumadin was a little overkill. So our facility switched to EC ASA 325mg BID. We have seen a few more patients with DVT and PE. We have also seen more cases of thrombocytopenia with Loveno...

3. In need of Advice

   NurseTink replied to CocoCunfused's topic in General Students

   Coco, Why did you choose nursing in the beginning? Maybe you can revisit what sparked your interest to begin with. You are very young and have your entire future ahead of you. We call it LPNs where I live. There are not many around anymore. In t...

4. Uniform Question For Seasoned Nurses...

   NurseTink replied to bluemorningglory's topic in General Nursing

   Ohhhhh no! I would never go back!! lol Imagine all the things we do as nurses now that doctors or orderlys did back then. I encourage anyone with the interest of knowing what the nursing cap was like just order one and wear it around the house. see h...

5. Flamed during report.

   NurseTink replied to gentle_ben_RN's topic in PACU

   i am a charge nurse on a very busy ortho unit. we have 8 to 18 surgeries a day. our average length of stay is 2-3 days. we never have more than 6 nurses on our unit. the only time i will ever ask a pacu nurse to hold a patient is if all the nurses h...

6. I just applied for an ortho position...

   NurseTink replied to DeLana_RN's topic in Orthopaedic

   DeLana Hi, just checking to see how your orientation is going. I was wondering how you were doing with the 1:6 ratio. I currently am a Charge nurse on a 25 bed unit. 90% if the time I am a free charge nurse unless someone calls in sick and there is...

7. ONC

   NurseTink posted a topic in Orthopaedic

   Hi there! I was just wondering how many Active ortho nurses we have here and if any had their ONC?