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  1. Continuous Urine monitoring

    stevierae replied to Ashman's topic in General Nursing

    I hear you. I wonder if urologists, nephrologists, or shock-trauma specialists have a more sophisticated and more efficient device for getting accurate urine outputs--automatically--every hour on the...

  2. U.S. pays for care of illegal aliens

    stevierae replied to BeachNurse's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Well, you are correct; there is a brand new mayor in San Francisco, Gavin Newsome (I am not sure if I spelled his last name correctly) and he has cracked down big time on general relief---housing is...

  3. U.S. pays for care of illegal aliens

    stevierae replied to BeachNurse's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    But, do you call "workfare" (if that's even done anymore) SLAVERY? Don't you think that people who are capable of working SHOULD work; perhaps even sweeping streets, picking up trash; that is, jobs...

  4. Continuous Urine monitoring

    stevierae replied to Ashman's topic in General Nursing

    When a patient is in ICU, particularly, all his hemodynamic monitoring needs to be scrupulous and continuous--and that includes urine output and I&O. In fact, I am dealing with a case (as a legal...

  5. Continuous Urine monitoring

    stevierae replied to Ashman's topic in General Nursing

    When a patient is in ICU, particularly, all his hemodynamic monitoring needs to be scrupulous and continuous--and that includes urine output and I&O. In fact, I am dealing with a case (as a legal...

  6. Neuro ICU - Do you talk to brain-dead patients?

    stevierae replied to talaxandra's topic in Neuro Intensive Care, ICU

    I know; I was not talking about you :) --was referring to all the controversy surrounding the Schiavo case, in which various doctors who had not even seen or examined the woman were making...

  7. U.S. pays for care of illegal aliens

    stevierae replied to BeachNurse's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    So, what happens to the baby if the parents are to be deported? Do the parents just go back to Mexico (courtesy of the INS) with the baby? Does the baby, now a U.S. citiczen, get assigned a civil...

  8. U.S. pays for care of illegal aliens

    stevierae replied to BeachNurse's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Yes, I saw that on the TV special---the high risk prenatal clinic and the team that was assembled to deliver the babies when the time came were obviously top notch. I am sure everybody who works in...

  9. Neuro ICU - Do you talk to brain-dead patients?

    stevierae replied to talaxandra's topic in Neuro Intensive Care, ICU

    If he needed to have his foot amputated, and they were waiting for family consent, then he was NOT brain dead. What good would a foot amputation do a brain dead patient? He is DEAD--pure and simple....

  10. Neuro ICU - Do you talk to brain-dead patients?

    stevierae replied to talaxandra's topic in Neuro Intensive Care, ICU

    Well--WAS she brain dead? That is, was she determined by lack of cortical function to be brain dead? Or serial EEGs? Or whatever the state she was hospitalized in defines as criteria to establish...

  11. U.S. pays for care of illegal aliens

    stevierae replied to BeachNurse's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    True. I saw a special on TV once, and I believe it was about that hospital where the late President John F. Kennedy was taken and pronounced dead when he was assasinated. The name escapes me, right...

  12. I need HELP

    stevierae replied to CCU NRS's topic in MICU, SICU

    Yeah, I was wondering about that description; I have scrubbed and circulated a fair number of transphenoidals, over the years but never seen anyone rotate the mandible out of the way--was curious if...

  13. I need HELP

    stevierae replied to CCU NRS's topic in MICU, SICU

    Transphenoidal. You will see this approach done for certain pituitary tumors--that is, a transphenoidal hypophysectomy, meaning removal of the pituitary gland. Now, if you have patients on your floor...

  14. Drug seeking or real pain? How do you tell?

    stevierae replied to JudyPRN's topic in Pain Management

    Here's what's confusing to me about people who have genuine chronic pain conditions for which they are under the care of a chronic pain specialist, and have an agreed to (often signed) treatment plan,...

  15. Case Scheduling

    stevierae replied to shodobe's topic in Operating Room

    See, to me--that's just unacceptable. Why did you HAVE to provide him with ANYBODY to assist him? That means you apparently had to go down the list of staff, calling people, begging them one by one...

  16. Case Scheduling

    stevierae replied to shodobe's topic in Operating Room

    LOL, I hear you, Shirley. I worked at a place where they utilized the call crew to do an "emergency" penile implant on one of the bigwigs in hospital administration, who thought he was too important...

  17. My english is horrible !!!

    stevierae replied to earthlovers123's topic in General Nursing

    LOL!!! I say "you guys" all the time. Sometimes I even say "Dude." And I am 51. But, I am definitely a CA girl, even though I now live in the Pacific Northwest. Now, one of my teammates says "youse...

  18. What was the MOST ridiculous thing a patient came to the ER for?

    stevierae replied to JUSTYSMOM's topic in Emergency

    That was a good thing that you and your dad did for Lucky. I tell my daughters not to trust men who don't like animals! I hope you have a boyfriend or husband who is as caring as your dad. Most...

  19. What was the MOST ridiculous thing a patient came to the ER for?

    stevierae replied to JUSTYSMOM's topic in Emergency

    LOL--all our cats have been around since my kids were in grade school. Our cat, Christopher was named Crystal by my son(now nearly 20) when he was in kindergarten because we thought he was a girl--we...

  20. What was the MOST ridiculous thing a patient came to the ER for?

    stevierae replied to JUSTYSMOM's topic in Emergency

    You guys are awesome!!!!! I, too, am an animal lover---have 5 cats of my own and "take care" of another one who has apparently been abandoned (or perhaps his owner died--he seems like an "old lady's"...

  21. Speaking of IVs... Need help (long story longer)

    stevierae replied to pebbles1977's topic in Ob/Gyn

    here are my own tricks from the er nursing thread, in blue. remember, these are unique to insyte autoguard by bd--that's the one with the button. with that brand, a 15 to 30 degree angle is what's...

  22. Pain Assessment/Reassessment

    stevierae replied to bobnurse's topic in Pain Management

    Thanks, Leslie.

  23. Speaking of IVs... Need help (long story longer)

    stevierae replied to pebbles1977's topic in Ob/Gyn

    Actually, it's better to advance the entire unit--stylet and catheter--perhaps another 1/8" once you have achieved a flash--THEN thread the catheter off the stylet, into the vein. In that way, you...

  24. Speaking of IVs... Need help (long story longer)

    stevierae replied to pebbles1977's topic in Ob/Gyn

    Are you using Insyte Auto Guard, by BD? If so, there are a few tricks I can share with you that make it more "user friendly"---I used to teach the product. I suspect that you are angling your...

  25. Family Sues After Woman Dies From Mistake At Military Hospital

    stevierae replied to Zhlake's topic in Ob/Gyn

    how tragic, and how shameful that she had to go thorough all those flights on a "space available" basis, instead of being medevaced via air ambulance or on a commerical flight accompanied by...