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  1. IV air bubble compensation

    barbshortt replied to JL123's topic in General Nursing

    of course, you cannot use daytonite's method when you are running chemo through an IV line....you can either pull the air out into a syringe, or push the air back up into the bag with compatible fluid...

  2. Anybody buy their own private insurance?

    barbshortt replied to 777RNThatsMe's topic in General Nursing

    Done a lot of research on the liability insurance issue, and took a poll where I work and only 5% of the RN's had medical mal insurance. i arranges for a malpractice attorney to speak at our monthly...

  3. new mexico travel anyone

    barbshortt replied to rngold's topic in Travel

    The RN's at Presbyterian do not wear all white - they wear white tops, and royal blue pants. Each department has different color requirements as to differentiate caregiver

  4. Question on blood draws and BP with bilateral mastectomies and single.

    barbshortt replied to cafecreme's topic in Oncology

    On a double mastectomy pt, we always do blood pressures on the calf of the leg. In our institution, almost all breast cancer chemo pts have a port, so we are able to do blood draws through the port....

  5. Nursing at Disneyland

    barbshortt replied to ManEnough's topic in California Nursing

    Actually, I was a pt at Disneyland once a few years ago. I had a bad case of food poisoning (not contracted at D'Land, by the way), and I had thought I would be able to make it through the day....

  6. Protocol for checking continous infusion chemo-- what do you do?

    barbshortt replied to LikesToSwim's topic in Oncology

    We use elastometric infusers which sound similar to what you are describing - they do not look like baby bottles, but are continuous infsion "balls" which are gravity-fed (either 2ml/hr or 5ml/hr)...

  7. New Nurses in England: Many Unemployed

    barbshortt replied to nyforlove's topic in General Nursing

    I am a U.S. RN who worked in England (London) 1999-2002 (my husband's job took us there). Nine of ten nurses in London were foreign-trained (mostly Malaysian, Australian, New Zealanders, South...

  8. Line set-up for Chemo

    barbshortt replied to bonodonnaonaroll's topic in Oncology

    Julie, In our setting, we mostly use a primary/secondary set-up for most chemo tx, with the secondary set-up being the chemo. However, for those infusions that often cause reactions (taxol, rituxan,...

  9. I Need To Talk To Someone About Excelsior

    barbshortt replied to Guest26407's topic in Online Distance Learning

    I'm afraid I came across (in my above post) as not appreciating the education I got at excelsior. Sorry if that is the case - I actually think my education was better than most of the RN's I work...

  10. I Need To Talk To Someone About Excelsior

    barbshortt replied to Guest26407's topic in Online Distance Learning

    I got my ADN through Excelsior in 1998. I think it was a difficult way to get an RN, as it required alot of discipline to keep at the books, while working fulltime. I will admit that I do feel that I...

  11. about the bird flu......

    barbshortt replied to jrring1019's topic in General Nursing

    Multicollinarity- You are absolutely right - the cytokine storm is the most dangerous outcome of this avian flu (H5N1) and the 1918 pandemic (which was simialr in structure to H5N1, but not exact)....