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1. Nightshift Headaches

   prn nurse replied to jschut's topic in General Nursing

   Lotsa night nurses take tylenol PM or Benadryl 50 mg prior to going to sleep. One of the secrets of tolerating nights. Waking up with a headache, especially if it is occipital,...

2. Uniforms in Vancouver?

   prn nurse replied to Joeknee's topic in International Nursing

   Sears stores want to stop selling medical uniforms, but they have quite a few specialty catalogues , and one of those is their uniforms catalogue. Avida has great uniforms and...

3. Complication with gall bladder surgery...or just slow healing????

   prn nurse replied to FrankieJane's topic in Health, Stress Management

   Dear Frankie Jane, Isn't this a screwed up world we live in? It wasn't but a few years ago that everyone who had a chole...lap or not, was not approved to return to work for 6-8...

4. Can Someone Be a Nurse Without Jean Watson??

   prn nurse replied to Q.'s topic in General Nursing

   This has been the most interesting and thoughtful thread I have read in a long time. You scholars deserve a big "Thank You!" for representing nurses so well ! You certainly...

5. No charge nurse

   prn nurse replied to perkines's topic in General Nursing

   The unit clerk is not qualified to be the tele tech either. Some hospitals want to put inexperienced people in the telemetry monitors' chair and simultaneously charge the patient...

6. nimodipine

   prn nurse replied to rails's topic in Neuro Intensive Care, ICU

   In our NICU, we gave Nimotop via the ng or po. Either way, here is what we did. We placed the big rubbery capsule in a 30 cc plastic med cup of room temp water. let it set about 15-20 minutes...

7. injections

   prn nurse replied to ohbet's topic in General Nursing

   Pinch............ sometimes...depends on how thin the patient is, the medication and whether or not the right size needle was stocked in the drawer for the job. Mapping always. I map and...

8. Any post-partum nurses here

   prn nurse replied to peaceful2100's topic in Ob/Gyn

   I worked a couple of years on PP. New grads can work there very well. At my hospital, L&D is separate, & nursery is separate. All three are under the same nurse manager, but...

9. prn question

   prn nurse replied to carz's topic in General Nursing

   The way I understand what you wrote is: The order is: Tylenol #3 0600-1200-1800-2400 -- a scheduled med Tylenol Plain Q6 hours PRN You gave a PRN Tylenol at 0300. Am I correct so far?...

10. "An easy to use & interesting continuing education hours site"

    prn nurse replied to prn nurse's topic in General Nursing

    We do not submit the certificates of ceu's earned to anyone. I just keep mine at home in a file labeled "Nursing Stuff". The State Board of Nurse Examiners can request to see my...

11. "An easy to use & interesting continuing education hours site"

    prn nurse posted a topic in General Nursing

    I am doing my continuing education this week. A site I have used the past four years is: http://www.netce.com click on visitor and then nurse and then look at online tests that are available....

12. Blood transfusions, pump or gravity

    prn nurse replied to kewlnurse's topic in General Nursing

    I have always used a pump, even before there was blood tubing. Hb. always increased after a unit of blood despite everyones dire predictions all the RBC' s were going to...

13. Nursing, No Longer A White Woman's Job?

    prn nurse replied to Gomer's topic in General Nursing

    Look around at who is doing the sh*t work of American society. Who is out there building the highways, building the subdivisions, digging the underground pipelines, doing the...

14. "Bad" Evaluation..I'm So Frustrated and ready to quit!!

    prn nurse replied to RNforLongTime's topic in General Nursing

    I think experienced ICU nurses sometimes resent the new ones who come onto the unit....expecting on the job training. ICU courses are usually offered at community colleges and...

15. I snapped

    prn nurse replied to Sundowner's topic in General Nursing

    Sundowner, is there a lot of ongoing stress in other areas of your life? It is the "out of control" part that is frightening. What would you have done if Bertha had escalated? If she had...