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I work in an inpatient urology floor. Our doctors place our 3 way foleys and we maintain them. Usually we titrate them until the urine is pink. Things to watch for are flow, output, color and irrigant volume. Make sure it doesn't go dry because i...

You can specify whatever you want to work with the agency. They might call you with other kinds of shifts but if you do not want to work them be strong and say no. I have not had a problem with many nurses treating me rudely, of course you are the ...

If there is creatinine in the jp fluid it means there is a urine leak at one of the reanastamosis sites.

I work in urology/gynecology in one of those great magnet hospitals that are being spoken of and we do put our foley catheters on the floor. For some reason the catheters that they place in the or back up and cause horrible pain for the patient. We...

1) Do you have your parents scrub up and gown before coming in and visting their baby/babies? Visitors are supposed to be doing a 3 minute scrub. I can say that usually doesn't happen, usually they just do a normal wash at the sink. They do not gow...

According to our policy ELBW infants are bathed with sterile water and older ones are bathed with tap water and J&J soap.

I agree with the other posts. Only our neos go to consult and get consent and then they document a full page of their consult for the chart. It is not the rn's place to consult it is our place to educate about the environment and like pp said the v...

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I planned my second pg to be during my last year of nursing school. I had many kidney problems, was admitted to the hospital for 4 days. I was due 16 days after the final. I delivered on a Wednesday and took my final on the following Monday. When...

I got my first IV stick all by myself from start to finish!!! I have done good hitting veins but I usually need help to finish off advancing the catheter and flushing and taping while holding the baby. Last week I hit two and blew them both when I ...

There was someone in there that I could have just said hey help if I needed to but it is not policy that we have two people. There are usually more than two around to do an IV and look the kid over for a good one anyway when one blows!

Did chest compressions on a neonate last night for the first time. I have only been in the NICU for 10 wks. Before that I was in med/surg for 1.5 yrs and never did compressions. We only had 2 codes in that time on our floor that did require compre...

It is even worse when you work at one of the largest hospitals in the area and one of the best hospitals in the country, that is noted for having the slogan of world class care. If I had a penny for every time someone threw that in my face because I...

I just started in the NICU and love it. I always knew I wanted to work in peds/L&D and while I was looking for a L&D position and there were none available, I fell into a NICU position. A month into orientation and I am loving it and can se...

I did not get to vote in the poll cause it was closed, but I would not want a male rn delivering me. For the same reason I will not go to a male ob/gyn. It makes me uncomfortable to be examined by them. My husband would also have a VERY big proble...

I don't know our policy for new admissions cause I haven't had one yet. I have only been in the NICU for a month, but the only time I have seen them done so far is when a kid was changed from d10 to d12 with their tpn. Then a blood sugar is checked...

We have our own stethescopes and we use the rolling thermometers with probe covers. We do keep the probe covers attached to the isolette and reuse them on the same baby.

There are a few floors at my hospital that do team nursing. I have never floated there but I think it is ridiculous. To have to float an LPN, RN or PCNA from our floor to their floor even though they have enough staff to run but they don't have 1rn...

I work on a 36 bed med/surg unit in a teaching hospital. On nights we like to have 5 rns which would give us 7 pts and one rn would have 8pts. Lately we have had 4 rns which gives us 9 pts each. I like nights cause you are able to find a place to ...

Just don't wear anything with lace. One of the new grads didn't even have to bend over; all she did was turn around, and I happened to be looking in her direction. It was like a train wreck; I couldn't divert my eyes. How can you wear lacy semi-thong...

I have only been on the unit for 2 days so I don't know all the small details yet but we have a sheet that has all the pt assignments in our conference room. It is done by the charge rn. We then get report at the bedside from the offgoing nurse. A...

At the NICU I will start in next week there are only RNs

I am also sick right now. I have called off since Tuesday, 3 nights. I have a bad cold, not enough to go to the dr but enough that I would be dripping snot and coughing and spitting up phlegm every few hours. The only reason I feel bad is because ...

An hour, but my new job is about 45 minutes. YEAH!!

I have never done it but I know you can. If it is an enema our ET nurses do it.