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1. What Do You Want To Hear When Receiving Report?

   aus nurse replied to rebelwaclause's topic in General Nursing

   Great thread...very interesting. I always find out from the oncoming staff if they know the patients. If so, then they don't need all the history, no point in going all thru it again. Any new...

2. Stripes

   aus nurse replied to Paprikat's topic in General Nursing

   Ahhhh...the memories!!! I trained in the early 80's. We wore caps (gawd it took a while to learn how to pin your hair up under them). Stripes on the cap indicated what year of student nursing you...

3. Dosage Calculation Question

   aus nurse replied to Ortho_RN's topic in General Students

   Great website someone posted here once is: http://www.accd.edu/sac/nursing/math/default.html For the first question you need your formula to calculate drops per minute. Volume................

4. Post Operative washes???

   aus nurse replied to Hypnopompic's topic in Medical-Surgical

   Post-op washes are common practice here, at least in the hospitals I have worked in. It is aimed at bed bound patients rather than ones able to mobilise. They can get to the bathroom and shower or...

5. Post Operative washes???

   aus nurse replied to Hypnopompic's topic in Medical-Surgical

   Post-op washes are common practice here, at least in the hospitals I have worked in. It is aimed at bed bound patients rather than ones able to mobilise. They can get to the bathroom and shower or...

6. Burn out or just in a funk?

   aus nurse replied to st4304's topic in General Nursing

   Yep, it sounds to me that it is the job. When you are hating to go to work that bad, I would say it is time to change the job. Is it that you feel out of your comfort zone? 1 month isn't long to judge...

7. Antibiotic bone head question

   aus nurse replied to ohbet's topic in General Nursing

   Ah thankyou Dave, you explained it much better than

8. Antibiotic bone head question

   aus nurse replied to ohbet's topic in General Nursing

   I too reconstitute antibiotics all the time. If the med book specifies sterile water I use an ampoule of water. If it says either water or saline i often use the mini bag of solution I am going to add...

9. lubrication the urthra

   aus nurse replied to jahcan's topic in Dialysis, Renal, Urology

   Yep I have done it many many times too for male catheterisations. I have always used 10cc of a water based lignocaine gel..it comes prepackaged and all docs and nurses use it here. You instill it like...

10. Peripheral edema post hip replacement

    aus nurse replied to kaycee's topic in General Nursing

    QUOTE]before I decide whether to call the doc or just wait it out to see if it goes away. Kaycee hun we nurses are the WORST at getting attention aren't we...yep I say call the doc too....too many...

11. Question for House Supervisors

    aus nurse replied to RoaminHankRN's topic in General Nursing

    Hank we still use the big bulky folder and cart it around. I find if I leave it somewhere other than where I am then I am guaranteed to need it lol. We laughingly refer to it as the "laptop"...

12. manipulative patient

    aus nurse replied to adrienurse's topic in Psychiatric

    Hey there Loray, LTC stands for long term care...equivalent to our nursing homes I think but said in a much nicer way:) Good luck adrienurse..I can relate to your problem. We have a regular patient...

13. Nitro tubing

    aus nurse replied to 2rntish's topic in CCU, Coronary, Cardiac

    We are still using the low absorption giving sets for nitro. Have not even heard a murmur that we don't need to. That don't surprise me any though..we always seem to be years behind here:rolleyes: I...

14. Blood transfusions, pump or gravity

    aus nurse replied to kewlnurse's topic in General Nursing

    For years we were only allowed to use gravity to infuse blood, something about the red cells being macerated. However since we started using Gemini pumps quite a few years back (showing my age now...

15. Waiting Room Signage

    aus nurse replied to willa76's topic in Emergency

    Oh excellent Nancy, i'm laughing so hard I'm crying.:roll I'll order one too for here. Willa, I don't think we have much at all...only emergencies are seen first or something generic like that. Some...