jlayne

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1. How does your hospital identify DNR?

   jlayne replied to jmgrn65's topic in General Nursing

   After the written order from Doc, we place a yellow wrist band on the patient, a yellow sticker on the outside of the chart as well as flag the original order and a sticker on the id plate. then its noted in numerous places in kardex, nurse to nurse ...

2. reading ECG

   jlayne replied to Lakeside5's topic in Cardiac

   I used http://www.randylarson.com/acls/master/ while in school, it was good practice. ECGs made easy was a good book to learn and practice with. Stand behind the telemetry monitors as much as possible, and practice practice- :) Good luck!!

3. Tele floor: what is you pt ratio?

   jlayne replied to ZootRN's topic in General Nursing

   I'm on a telemetry/stroke floor and its 7-8 pts/ RN with a tech...its gets pretty hetic esp when pts are having active cardiac issues rather then just stable and being monitored.

4. 24-hour observation nursing

   jlayne replied to GeeBeeRN's topic in General Nursing

   On the floor I work on, Telemetry, we have people admitted for 23 hour obs that are mostly chest pain r/o MI... draw their cardiac enzymes and go from there, maybe about 75% of the time they are upgraded to inpatient status because they have to stay ...

5. what are your thoughts...

   jlayne replied to kk2000's topic in General Nursing

   Help the man to the commode! All that seems like to me is that the nurse doesn't want to bother with her patients needs or DIGNITY. For goodness sake, wouldnt it save him/her time to help him to the commode to go rather than answer call lights all ...