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turquoise

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turquoise specializes in cardiac.


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  1. Starting IV's...

    This one piece of advice is what has helped me more than anything else. I asked one of the "never miss" nurses and she said to close my eyes and feel around. Things that were hard were most likely tendons or such and the "springy" things were proba...
  2. pulling arterial sheaths

    I'm curious to see what oter institutions have as policy. Where I work, we pull sheaths on the regular floor (not just in cath lab or icu) we do not flush the line before pulling, and we do it manually. If bleeding occurs after the pull and requir...
  3. acuity? i've never heard of that (actually i have but i'm pretending) generally 6-8:1 and it does not matter if you have 8 pt with arterial sheaths or 8 fresh open hearts with chest tubes or 8 frequent flyers that sleep all night and set their alarm...
  4. Insulin drips on the floor!

    I work on a floor similar to yours, pre/post op open hearts, pci, etc and we have insulin drips on our pts. We have 23 beds and 3 nurses (2 RNs and an LPN or 2 LPNs and an RN) sometimes we have a tech. You can do the math on how many pts per nurse. ...
  5. help, suspect abuse

    thank you all for your comments and recommendations. It has been reported to the proper people and hopefully, the right thing will be done (whether that right thing is absolutely nothing, or removal from the situation.) Thanks again.
  6. What is your biggest nursing pet peeve?

    from midnights- doing extra things such as baths (which is a morning shift responsibility) just to be nice and make their day go a little smoother and then getting yelled at because i didn't have enough time to do their work for them. (excuse me? wh...
  7. Spooky Nursing Stories

    I used to work in a nursing home, so i have many strange tales to tell, but i'll just tell you this one. One of the residents on this floor always got up around 2 am and came out to sit in a chair. I was sitting in the lounge on the south floor on...
  8. What Freaks You Out?

    AMPUTATION AMPUTATION AMPUTATION! I've had nightmares since i was a little girl about legs being blown off. It's my biggest (only really) personal fear. Even amputaions from WWII that are healed just gross me out. Arms don't bother me quite as mu...
  9. help, suspect abuse

    Hi all, I am a nursing student by day and a child care worker by night. This question is related to the child care, but I thought some of you may have delt with a similar situation and could offer some advice. Here's the situation: I work at an e...
  10. gastric hernia???

    i'm not sure what a fundal plication is (everytime i try to google it i get porno sites instead of a definition). My mom had a paraesophageal hernia repaired last May. (Is that what you were asking about?) About 75% of her stomach had slipped up in...
  11. I know someone whose ex-girlfriend wrote bad checks on their joint account after they split just to tick him off. His application to sit for the board was denied (after FINISHING nursing school mind you) because of this (even though it was many year...