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I need suggestions please! Our hospital has encouraged skin to skin after birth for many years, and after vaginal births this is happening. After C/S births, IT'S NOT. Our manager is all for us doing skin to skin in the OR, breastfeeding and keeping ...

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No, we don't have a 24/7 OB. Luckily all our OB's live 5-10 minutes away, and they can park right next to LDRP. The clinics are across the street - 2 minutes away. Our peds live farther away, 10-20 minutes. All of us are expected to be skilled with N...

If someone has a MRSA infection and is treated with IV Vanco, when he gets out of the hospital, is he still able to spread MRSA to others? If a person has strep, after 24 hours of antibiotics they are considered not contagious anymore. But with MRSA,...

Lots of green in the Portland area and lots of rain to keep it green. Snow and skiing on Mt. Hood. Nice clean water from Mt. Hood melt-off. About two hours from the beach. Lots of culture, arts and diversity. Lots of environmentalists, and health co...

I know they are different. I'm just saying you can cure strep. Why can't you cure MRSA? If the antibiotics kill the MRSA enough for the wound to heal, why is the person still colonized and infectious?

If someone has a MRSA infection and is on Vanco and Zosyn, and the wound heals, do they still have MRSA? If someone has strep, and they are treated with antibiotics, after 24 hours, they are not infectious anymore. Is MRSA different?

I can't count the number of women that come in planning on a totally natural birth who decide, at 6 cm, to go with the epidural and are very happy they did. I always tell them I'll support whichever direction they go. I don't know the exact statisti...

I knew a man with a first name of "Fuk." It was pronounced "Fuke". Too bad it wasn't spelled the way it was pronounced. He was an immigrant from one of those small, south Asian countries. I'm sure it was a fine name in his country, just an unfortuna...

This was a night shift nurse's note in a LTC facility. "No pulse, no BP. Will keep comfortable." She left the next morning, saying nothing about it to the day shift. Day shift CNA, of course, found pt. dead. The nurse was let go. I always wondered wh...

Considering his actions the last few days, I wouldn't take care of him without a policeman present and any other safeguards I might need to keep myself safe. That being said, he'd get the same care from me as anyone else.

We had a nurse give a pt. two regular Tylenol instead of Norco. Too bad for her that the pt. was a hospital pharmacy tech and recognized the pills and turned her in. Don't know how many patients she had shortchanged in the past. We had a young male p...

Our patients are "alert and oriented." When I started working at the hospital, I was "orientated." I never liked the word "orientated," and now I learn I'm right, it's not American English.

If you're hungry for more food than your body needs, it's not food that you're hungry for. That sentence helps me when I am full but stull want to eat, eat, eat. I try to drink a bunch of water, rest, comfort myself until the craving passes.

There was a nurse on our unit, whom I will call "Kate," who was recently found "diverting" narcotics. Several months ago I was on the shift after hers and medicated a patient that Kate had. I brought two norco as the MAR said she had two several hour...

One of the peds is out of town for a couple weeks, and a locum tenens took his place. We had a 34 weeker in labor and needed a ped at the delivery, so we called Dr. "LT." This is a small hospital that ships out early moms if we can, but it's 2-3 hou...

Wow, I was doing Dr. Maeyens' transcription when he did that episode! (my job before I was a nurse.) He loved maggot therapy. The maggots come in a cup labled "sterile." He got them from California somewhere. Once I got his extra maggots, put them in...

We have one male nurse who does postpartum, nsy and NICU, but not labor. We try not to put him with any woman with known sexual abuse, especially if she is fresh postpartum, just because we don't want her to feel uncomfortable. Some women choose fema...

You know you're a nurse when you dread a visit from your non-compliant, diabetic relative, as the last time he showed up at your door, he had a badly infected foot, and it took two surgeries and a six week stay at our house (with me being the caregiv...

Our hospital is building on a new addition. Every time PTO cashout time comes (instead of taking vacation, we can turn our PTO into cash) the administration asks if any of us want to donate our PTO to the new building. Everybody just laughs and says,...

My brother in law is diabetic and won't take care of himself. Last year he quit his insulin and medical care. He came to visit last fall with his foot horribly infected. He had a 12 day stay in the hospital, two surgeries and lost half his foot. He h...

I emailed him today (he has no minutes on his phone) and nicely told him I was not his caregiver. He needs to accept responsibility for his health or accept the consequences. I'm kinda proud of myself. In answer to why he needs SSI. He can't get a re...

I am an RN. He has never been diagnosed with a mental illness, but he probably should be. He doesn't fall into any typical category. He would never cooperate with a psychological evaluation. He is disabled enough to get SSI, but he has too much money...

I know of a 12 pound baby, exclusively breastfed, great latch, plenty of time on the breast. But he was large and needed more than mom was able to give. By the time her milk came in, baby was badly dehydrated, ended up in NICU with renal failure, alm...

In ICU there was a pt. that was dying. She was hooked up to the monitor. Every time she was turned, her HR, Resp and BP all decreased about 20%. Then over the next half hour the VS increased to normal. Two hours later, we turned her, and VS all decr...