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    Need advice - is this abuse?

    kids replied to pumpkin's topic in Pediatric

    What you describe is more a case of medical neglect (for not starting the special diet) since it sounds like the child may actually have a metabolic disorder. Have you considered the possibility that...
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    Need advice - is this abuse?

    kids replied to pumpkin's topic in Pediatric

    What you describe is more a case of medical neglect (for not starting the special diet) since it sounds like the child may actually have a metabolic disorder. Have you considered the possibility that...
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    I came a LONG way! How about You?

    kids replied to avahsmiles's topic in General Nursing

    I started nursing pre-reqs at 22 with a 7th grade education and a GED. It took me 5 quarters to pass 3 quarters of Chemestry, all with the same instructor. To this day I think I passed organic chem...
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    Trach care

    kids replied to happylush's topic in Pulmonary

    Your nursing book was correct in that you would need to deflate cuff before removing the (outter) cannula, however not for removal of the inner. You may find some of the links in this thread...
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    Stupid People Award

    kids replied to ER-RN2's topic in Emergency

    Tom must have missed this one, I can't imagine he'd willingly pass on a good golf
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    Moving to Portland

    kids replied to nurse sandy's topic in Oregon Nursing

    Off the top of my head...both Emanual and OHSU have high risk OB units (I can't remember which of the Providence do). Providence and Legacy and OHSU all have big new grad programs, I've heard it can...
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    IM injections

    kids replied to ragingmomster's topic in General Nursing

    I graduated from an ADN program in 1990. We were taught to use ventrogluteal and were not even shown the dorsogluteal
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    Relief from a vaginal Hysterectomy post surgery

    kids replied to Jackie Breaks's topic in Pain Management

    Your friend needs to follow her discharge instructions including taking pain medications as prescribed. The procedure she had done can be very painful, if she is not getting relief with the pain meds...
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    Family history - irrelevant in modern obstetrics?

    kids replied to reprise's topic in Ob/Gyn

    During my daughter's pregnancy she started her care at a OB clinic for low to no income women. I have a pretty serious OB/Gyn history including probable DES exposure. My daughter was told that none of...
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    Parvovirus (5th Disesase) ?

    kids replied to Hooligan's topic in Ob/Gyn

    Parvo is a fairly new illness having been discovered in the 70s. My children born between 1980 & 1984 have never had it yet it is now considered a "common" childhood infection. Current research...
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    Pediatric BMT program

    kids replied to renerian's topic in Pediatric

    No input on the BMP part as I have never done it. I will say that the parents are one of the biggest challenges I've encountered in Peds. BUT, in my experience the parents of chroniclly ill kids can...
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    Chronic Back Pain Patient Has Surgery

    kids replied to Tweety's topic in Pain Management

    If she had instrumentation placed she had a fusion...NSAIDS are now contraindicated in spinal fusion, research has shown a direct connection between NSAIDS and failure (I just had a major revision and...
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    Nursing License number fraud question

    kids replied to kelly2u's topic in Washington Nursing

    I think the degree to which the potential penalties are applied will depend on what she did while using your license number and her own credentials in relation to the tasks she performed. Either way...
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    Tracheostomy and Vent Information

    kids replied to NRSKarenRN's topic in Home Health

    I also think these sites may be of help: Mechanical Ventilation: A Review and Update for Clinicians: http://www.turner-white.com/pdf/hp_dec99_vent.pdf An expanded explaination of the different modes,...
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    Tracheostomy and Vent Information

    kids replied to NRSKarenRN's topic in Home Health

    These 2 documents are tools I created for training new Home Health nurses to vents. Ventilator Mode- characteristics, uses, contraindications, advantages and disadvantages.doc Basics of Mechanical...
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    Home Health Nurses Assisting Pt's in School....

    kids replied to yaddadoit's topic in Washington Nursing

    I am about 99% sure your agency is incorrect in sayng there is a regulation barring you from taking notes for your patient at school. I was clinical coordinator at a Peds PDN agency in Vancouver, WA...
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    Need to talk to someone familiar with Children's Hospital at Strong in Rochester, NY

    kids posted a topic in General Nursing

    An aquaintance's 2 week old baby was just diagnosed with Coarctation of the Aorta. The parents have been given lots of good info on CoA. What I am looking for is the un-complicated post-op "routine"...
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    Need to talk to someone familiar with Children's Hospital at Strong in Rochester, NY

    kids replied to kids's topic in General Nursing

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    Ick...charcoal

    kids replied to gotaluvtheER's topic in General Nursing

    I can get almost anything out using Clorox 2 (the color safe stuff) and warm water. Did you dry it
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    Need to talk to someone familiar with Children's Hospital at Strong in Rochester, NY

    kids replied to kids's topic in General Nursing

    Thanks much Deb. I figure this is the very best place to find out the "flow" of things at a specific hospital. I've been able to tell them about my grandson's surgery at Doernbechers but from the...
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    Weggoners granulomatosis HELP!

    kids replied to smk1's topic in General Nursing

    are you sure about the spelling? here is some info on wegener's granulomatosis. http://www.niaid.nih.gov/factsheets/wegeners.htm http://www.wgassociation.org/index.jsp...
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    Can a LPN be a school nurse?

    kids replied to therealnurse's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    I'm in Vancouver, WA (across the river from smkoepke). Washington State requires all school district employed nurses hold a
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    Ketamine for kids

    kids replied to shearernurse's topic in General Nursing

    We had a lengthy discussion on ketamine use in the ER not long ago with a lot of the discussion relating to its use in children.
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    Does anyone take adderall????

    kids replied to KrisRNwannabe's topic in General Students

    The Peds clinic I worked at did baseline and Q6mo ECG's on kids starting Concerta (and a couple other meds) and had the Peds Cardio who used our office once a week reveiw them, any abnormality or...
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    What was the MOST ridiculous thing a patient came to the ER for?

    kids replied to JUSTYSMOM's topic in Emergency

    I agree. The 7 provider Peds clinic I worked at often sent kids to the ER for