3PRN

3PRN has 17 years experience.

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1. tell me about your brainless moments

   3PRN replied to goats'r'us's topic in Operating Room

   Twenty years ago, small, rural hospital and new to ICU. Pt. admitted for pain control with epidural drip. All through the night shift I was in the room titrating up and down depending on his level of pain. At one point, there was hardly any medicatio...

2. Evidenced Based Practice: intermittent catheterization vs indwelling foley

   3PRN replied to NRSKarenRN's topic in Wound

   Thanks for the update. I'm preparing for my 5 year CWOCN testing in a few months and the continence exam is the most difficult in my opinion.

3. Suggestions Appreciated

   3PRN replied to AprettynewRN's topic in Wound

   Check out the web page of the Wound, Ostomy, Continence Nurse Society (WOCN.org). You'll find lots of information on the various programs including WEBWOC, the online program. To sit for the exam(s), you will need a BSN and have completed a program....

4. don't ever let me be your wound care nurse!

   3PRN replied to brownbook's topic in Wound

   It was irritated where the bandage was but how was the wound? I'm guessing it was all healed. You just got a lesson in autolytic debridement! I think you'd make a fine wound care nurse.

5. Anyone else feel like a robot reciting customer service scripts all the time?

   3PRN replied to rntj's topic in Relations

   When I was told that I must say (to EVERY patient) "I'm going to close the curtain now to ensure your privacy"....I nearly gagged! Of course I'm closing the curtain to ensure their privacy, but I REFUSE to announce it! If you haven't, please refer to...

6. colostomy

   3PRN replied to mrnewman's topic in General Nursing

   "can you control evacuation of the bowel with a colostomy." This was the original question. Since we're talking about evacuation through a stoma and not through the rectum, muscle and sphincter control are not the issue. The issue is timing of bowel ...

7. colostomy

   3PRN replied to mrnewman's topic in General Nursing

   There is a way to control the timing of colostomy output, and thousands of ostomates do this daily. It is called irrigation. After the abdomen has had plenty of time to heal, irrigation teaching can begin. The stoma must come from no farther up the b...

8. Any tips with smells? Please!!!

   3PRN replied to AML2007's topic in General Students

   Odors tell us a lot about our patients, especially the bad ones. You will learn to diagnose a pseudomonas infection without a culture, GI bleed without an CT scan, C.Diff without a stool sample, impending death in a pt. that doesn't look too bad. I d...

9. Becoming a Nurse After 40

   3PRN replied to PacoUSA's topic in General Nursing

   Oh the shoulda, woulda, couldas...I've got a million of them. My goal was to graduate from nursing school at 40. Check. BSN by 45. Check. MSN by 50...OOPS! Too expensive. Anyway, feeling behind at the beginning of my career, I made a decision to tran...

10. Question for nurses from an aide

    3PRN replied to kizeemimi's topic in General Nursing

    I loved working in the hospital. But when I started spending more time writing about the teaching I'd done than the actual teaching and more time writing about my interventions than the actual interventions, I moved to outpatient care. Now I spend my...

11. Wound vac with compression wraps?

    3PRN replied to paddler's topic in Wound

    If you go with the pre-fab, you should still use extra protection under the tubing now that it's going to be under the compression. Either foam or the cotton layer of your Profore.

12. Wound vac with compression wraps?

    3PRN replied to paddler's topic in Wound

    I have done this but under hospital supervision, not as outpatient. However, I would consider an outpatient if the person was directly involved with their own care. After the dressing is in place, put a small piece of foam under the tubing near the s...

13. Holy Wound Batman!!

    3PRN replied to PsychNurseWannaBe's topic in Wound

    For her comfort and to decrease time spent on dressing changes you can't go wrong with the wound vac. Drainage won't be an issue as it goes into a throw-away canister. Typically dressing changes are Monday, Weds., Friday, but in this case you can go ...

14. Need opinion! ASAP

    3PRN replied to IreneM555's topic in Pre-Nursing

    I took the EMT course while I was on my 4-year waiting list. I did it just for the knowledge gained and it was a great experience.

15. Nursing Academia: We Need New Blood!

    3PRN replied to VickyRN's topic in Educators

    I would love to teach at the college level. I looked into earning a master's for this and was very disappointed to find that the local state college has an "impacted" program. That leaves me with private universities wanting between 40-60 thousand do...