JHUBRAIN

Me too! That is why I love this board!

Great response - Thank you so much!!

We do a lot of sclerosing - and getting the talc back out. Also we get a lot of the pyothorax folks. Sometimes it is so thick. We see it more once suction has been turned off (like going to Rad or something) and when suction gets reattached.

To prevent it from clotting off. Sometimes they icky stuff gets caught in thoraic cath. They had a PA doing it and he just recently quit. I have only had to have it done twice.

Hi everyone - The interventional Rad group is wanting to start having the floor nurses start flushing their chest tubes they place. I have never done this and the others on our floors are not real happy about either. There is no policy in place as well. Do any of you flush chest tubes - if so - is there a policy for you to refer to? Thanks

i knew it!!! hey two thumbs way up to allnurses for doing what they did!!

Well said

I think you are way off - and your anger towards the nurses show. If I may - what dept to you work in?

Good Luck to you all!

I am following this with much awe - Good luck to all of you - Fight for your rights!

The job of an IRB is to protect the study particpants no matter were they are (even in prison). Most IRB study presentation paperwork has a part on it about "special populations" and prison inmates fall into that. I don't think any IRB would allow study particpants to be used against their will (even prision inmates-no mattter what they did) Just a thought

I have to agree with this. There should be a limit - or there are no standards. If someone could just retake - retake - retake until on the 12th time they pass - maybe nursing is really not for them. The same should hold true for MDs as well. I can see failing it a couple of times, but after 3 - 4 times, there should be some major retraining in store for that person before they take it the 5th time.

All great points. The nurse will have to be ACLS to do these. Inservices will be done with a yearly compentencies as well. Great conversation. Thanks to all

Hello everyone - I have a question and am hoping you can help. Do any of you know what your policys are regarding "critical Meds" on a medsurg floor. The meds I am interested in are Amiodarone - Diltiazem - Dobutamine-Eptifibatide. Now the patients will have on a Tele (tele room on another floor). I just came from a meeting and they are wanting to start doing this meds on the Medsurg floor when the ICU stepdown is full (ICU stepdown is also shrinking in beds) Do any of you see this situation in your hospital? Thanks to all JHUBRAIN

Hi - Was wondering if any of you Nurses working in hospitals do 10 hour shifts. We are considering them at my hospital and I was wondering what folks thought about them. Thank you - Gary