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  1. Whats to Enjoy about Nursing?

    burn out replied to sissyboo's topic in General Nursing

    I enjoy being able to make a difference in someones life. I enjoy taking all that knowledege and careplan stuff from school and actually applying it in a clinical setting and seeing and making a...

  2. How would you make inpatient rooms better?

    burn out replied to Email4KH's topic in General Nursing

    Make all rooms private. Quit having 6-7 feet tall people hang everything at their eyelevel. I am 5 feet tall and when equipment is over the patients bed I have actually dropped it on the patient's...

  3. Management of hyperthermia in neuro patients

    burn out replied to harrn's topic in Neuro Intensive Care, ICU

    Fans are a JACHO violation and we are not even allowed to have them in our hospital..infection control issue., Tylenol, cooling blankets, ice to the groins and arm pits usually take care of regular...

  4. Electronic stethoscope?

    burn out replied to RN007's topic in General Nursing

    I know this sounds stupid but I have seriously thought about using this. When my daughter was pregnant she bought this doppler like gizmo from target for $20 so she could listen to the baby's heart...

  5. Acls

    burn out replied to Christie RN2006's topic in General Nursing

    Your hospital should provide you with the ACLs book. In 2005 ACLS was overhauled and many changes were made both in the pulseless vtach algorhythim (sp?) During mega code it is no longer required to...

  6. acidious vs alkalosis (forgive the spelling)

    burn out replied to lindahanna's topic in General Nursing

    From this dummy..forget about hydrogen ions just focus on co2 and o2..hydrogen ions are not listed on the

  7. Wrong place, but car wreck please help

    burn out replied to Vap23's topic in General Nursing

    I am sorry to hear about the loss of your friend but I AM GLAD THAT YOU MADE IT THROUGH and are alive to tell us about what happened. Unfortunately for you that you now must grieve for the loss of...

  8. If you are drunk, don't drive!

    burn out replied to chuck1234's topic in General Nursing

    I think the operative word here is drunk..I think in most places it is just drinking you don't have to be drunk. I think this is good and should apply to all professions MD's included. What I am...

  9. How do you get through a loss?

    burn out replied to Lil1Flip's topic in General Nursing

    I think to somee degree we go through the grieving process just as if we knew the patient..we are human too. However, where I think we get some comfort is that by doing the hands on stuff and running...

  10. Have you ever done CPR off duty?

    burn out replied to nurse4theplanet's topic in General Nursing

    2005 ACLS guidelines are 2 breaths /30 compressions for 2 minutes then allow time for reassessment of patient and or AED assessment for shock or no shock, pulse etc and give meds, then start next two...

  11. Ethical Dilemma

    burn out replied to StillBelieveRN's topic in Ob/Gyn

    Please I am not an OB nurse so may I don't know what I am talking about, but I know that they will let a woman carry a demised fetus until labor sets in so what was the rush with terminating this...

  12. 10 things you say at work lay people could get arrested for

    burn out replied to sharann's topic in Nursing Humor

    I am going to insert this tube in your member...then I am going to stick this tube down your nose..and if you don't leave them alone I going to tie your hands down...did you say you wanted to sign out...

  13. PAR Charting

    burn out replied to ladytopaz's topic in General Nursing

    I could already have it typed or written out by the time I figured how to PIE or PAR

  14. CTs with contrast through central lines

    burn out replied to GardenDove's topic in General Nursing

    nope, no contrast through centrall ines for ct or nuc med. I had to start nine IV's on a patient the other for all the test and the contrast was injected so fast that the lines kept blowing..it was a...

  15. making enemies

    burn out replied to loridoo's topic in General Nursing

    Loridoo, Alot of times in nursing we have to make out patients do things that they may not want to do, but it is in their own best interest if they do. If we let patients just lay in bed after...

  16. Medicine: Have we gone too far? And, is our system ethical as a whole?

    burn out replied to GardenDove's topic in General Nursing

    Huscarl what is your problem with baby boomers, like we have profitted so much. If there are so many of us it is because of our parents and all the luxuries they had..everyone owened their own home,...

  17. levophed calculations

    burn out replied to dittydo's topic in General Nursing

    I ran a levo drip just the other day and it was mcg/min, that is what our standard is. Perhaps look up whatever your hospital standard is and share that with the physicians otherwise you are running...

  18. Why does Nursing put up with short staffing?

    burn out replied to elfinM's topic in General Nursing

    That is when nursing can and would make a change both for nursing and healthcare. It would depend on good leadership and to some extent forming some kind of nursing organization (not a union). We...

  19. Interesting facts and observations.

    burn out replied to Ekklesia's topic in Male Nursing Students

    please don't assume to know what i know and don't now..because you don't know me. secondly, i have been a nurse for 20 years and the only time i know of a patient asking for a specific gender of nurse...

  20. Medicaid. Is it being abused?

    burn out replied to SWFlorida's topic in Emergency

    It must be nice to live in a perfect world. If you can tell the world how to keep teenage girl from getting pregnant I would certainly love to hear it. I have always cared for my children , provided...

  21. Help! Transfer schools for family emergency?

    burn out replied to MelissaRN.FutureCRNA's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    It sounds as if he is the one that decided to go back home and didn't take you into consideration. Maybe he needs some time out but you did mention some major stressors at home. Maybe your marriage...

  22. Bully

    burn out replied to gracie05's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Sounds like a HOSTILE WORK ENVIRONMENT to me and I would report it as such to my nurse manager. If he can't take the heat then he needs to get out of the kitchen. Someone needs to talk to this guy...

  23. Why does Nursing put up with short staffing?

    burn out replied to elfinM's topic in General Nursing

    I think the real question is why does hospitals put up with nursing shortage? Nurses have no control over it but if we clock in and then refuse to work short we can charged with abandonment..we get...

  24. Help me please...I need help from an experienced nurse

    burn out replied to 3gnursemommy's topic in General Nursing

    Do you have a preceptorship semester with your nursing program? When I was in school we had one semester that we followed a RN (always the same one). This is where I learned organiZation by...

  25. Are you in Nursing for the Caring or the Cash?? Be Honest

    burn out replied to 1BlessedRN's topic in General Nursing

    I think that nursing should be a separate charge on a patients bill..instead of getting paid by the hour we should get paid by the task. Then the public as well as ourselves would know our true worth....