ayla2004

ayla2004 ASN, RN

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  1. Dealimg with radiology

    Hey most of the time we end on escort waiting for the other to have their scan waiting for porters to push the pt back to the sward. Sent from my GT-I9300 using
  2. Rounding on patients at night

    Ilwork on a ward that wakes pt every fours hours during the night. We round on them every two. Very often with poor sleepers they have just got over to sleep and they are awake. Sent from my...
  3. Recently moved Canadian RN to UK

    Never worked mau only wards. Mau is known as he'll. As for iv meds did you have a uclh drug book available in the clinic brilliant resource for intractable meds . I log now nurses know about...
  4. Cant believe the nurse did.....

    What about a bed pan? Sent from my GT-I9300 using
  5. Aneurysm Clipping Pro or Con

    When family ask me the plan for a SAH I go over the norms tha t our doctors have Already said but I also say this is if everything goes smoothly. Our patio tsunami get told to listen to that nurses...
  6. Aneurysm Clipping Pro or Con

    Oh I hate
  7. Pain meds and control for severe post concussion symptoms

    We give on my neurological ward. Paracetamol (Apap). Codiene , morphine .ir/Mr, oxycodone Ir/Mr, tramodol, pregablin, gabepentin, nsaids ibuprofen and diclefenac.
  8. Aneurysm Clipping Pro or Con

    Was the OP patitents clipped without having a sah bleed or had they had a non bleeding aneryual(picked up on a ct). My ward cares for aneryual sah and cold coiled aneryuam . I have never seen...
  9. ever think you are jinxed

    Every so often i have a run of shifts when pt go off on me, or die but only one which was a periarrest. this has happened from the first shifts on my own as a newly qual to now. My ward thinks im...
  10. From the term consultant and porter I guessing you are in the UK/RoI The being asked to step out during the physical exam may be due not just to privacy but to allow for a objective exam, you have...
  11. Mickey buttons and lansoprazole capsules

    do you have fast tab its an oro-dispersibe form of lansoprazole, or get pharmacy to supply sodium bicarbonate to dislove te
  12. This is why I am an anxious wreck...

    Ive hadsomany shifts latley were i'm treding water trying to get from handover to handover without anything bad happnening to my patients. I know that only some prioty care is getitng given....
  13. I wasn'saying it beyond a UK nurse and learning breath sounds is on my to do list. Rather for the OP question, who marks the essay want to read on the basis wha a ward nurse would be doing. Making...
  14. dont you have intermediate care or discharge coorindators pushing for discharge. Do you work in the UK NHS? What i found most limiting when i worked cote rehab was the number of patients who expected...
  15. However i care for SAH, neuro oncology patients, ICH, TBI. SCI, demented, look after trachy (dont mind sputum) neuro and othor spines etc. I love neuro but hate the workload as usual i find the the...
  16. Question About Nursing in New Zealand

    From my own reading. maternity care in NZ in midwife lead, that is bachloer prepared midwife who care for mum and baby from conception to 4=-weeks postnatal period. Not sure if nurses have any role...
  17. do you work neurolgy or neurosurg? either way it can be a hard area to work in. With neuorolgy yoc care for MS, MND, Parkinson, epiletics, dementia, etc strokes? When the system that has a issue is...
  18. the other posters have been gviing good advice however since you are posting on the uk board i'm guessing your a uk student nurse. where it has been mentioned mobility inculdes breathing it doesn't...
  19. VTE Prophylaxis Ideas

    Not in the USA but ive glanced at SCIP and most of its measured we address. We use lmwh, TEDS and flotons boots (SCD) All patient admitted unless there is contraindicated have TED stockings knee high...
  20. In your opinion, which is more addictive tylenol 3 or tramadol?

    opiates of any class need a bowel regiem be it prune juice etc or tablet laxatives considered
  21. In your opinion, which is more addictive tylenol 3 or tramadol?

    Don't like tramodol as a pain killer, however it works for the 10% codiene doesn't work for. However i did know a patient say they took 2-3 tmes the daily dose of codiene 480=720mg per day probaly...
  22. do you make sure your pts

    How much time is spent chatting? Ok i'll say this, i like many nurses work on a ward were breaks are not a daily occurence and rn never break togeter, yes we chat amost ourselves sometimes doing...
  23. What can you run iv tylenol with.

    patient aren't as happy to have PR
  24. Transferring CNA Certification.

    oaky you have a certifcate not a license. We don't cert/license/register nurses aides the same way so no you can't, Get your RN and then you
  25. advanced airway use

    depends on policy and knowledge skills and experince, my facilty has a course called ILS that allows nurses to run a code until backup arrives we can place a