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  1. Schwartznegger on Hannity and Combs tonight..

    stevierae replied to directcare4me's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Unfortunately, as I posted recently on another thread, there are hospitals in CA whose ICUs choose to interpret Title 22 as 1 NURSE to 2 patients, NOT 1 RN to 2 patients. AB 394 clarifies the...

  2. Schwartznegger on Hannity and Combs tonight..

    stevierae replied to directcare4me's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Nancy, CA is the ONLY state in the union to have mandated RN to patient ratios---NOT "nurse to patient ratios" mind you, but RN to patient ratios!!! CNA has helped us achieve that, and has also been...

  3. arterial line insertion by OR/PACU nurses

    stevierae replied to jrgrad1912's topic in PACU

    yes, i believe so---if as an icu nurse you are capable of doing an arterial stick (to obtain blood gases) why couldn't you take that one step further and thread a line into that artery? think about...

  4. Salem Sump NG Tubes

    stevierae replied to annmariern's topic in Medical-Surgical

    Isn't X-ray REQUIRED by JCAHO now after placement of ANY NG tube? I thought I remember reading that just recently. We never do so in the O.R.

  5. arterial line insertion by OR/PACU nurses

    stevierae replied to jrgrad1912's topic in PACU

    I think that most RNs who have worked at one time worked in ICU--and that includes many, if not most, PACU nurses-- are accustomed to doing arterial sticks to obtain blood gases---hence, no reason why...

  6. MRSA in Residential Treatment Facility

    stevierae replied to melissa_rn's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    I am curious---was Clindamycin the appropriate antibiotic treatment for this child? I alsways thought that the antibiotic SOC for MRSA (more appropriately called ORSA, or Oxacillin resistant, since...

  7. difficult IV starts

    stevierae replied to Spider Cat's topic in General Nursing

    You can also ask for an order to apply Nitropaste--just a very tiny amount on the very tip of a Q-tip--to the vein that you'd like to access. DON'T GET IT ON YOUR OWN SKIN---you risk getting a...

  8. Sacred cows that need to be laid to rest

    stevierae replied to stevierae's topic in Operating Room

    I've never given an injection--whether intradermal, sub-Q, IM or IV---wearing gloves. Do floor nurses do that, nowadays? I sometimes feel really out of the loop, working in the O.R.---it's like we...

  9. How Does This Happen in an OR?

    stevierae replied to Jussurfin's topic in Operating Room

    Here is what may have happened: If a laparoscopic procedure was being done, there would have been a sterile video camera on the field, as there always is. This scrub tech, while supposedly color...

  10. CPR after rigor mortis

    stevierae replied to HealinghandsRN's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    I thought AEDs were soon going to replace the old style hospital defibrillators, IN hospitals, anyway--that they are so user friendly that the people that are freaked out by codes could easily gain...

  11. Lotus Birth...What do yall think about this?

    stevierae replied to JVanRN's topic in Ob/Gyn

    Ginny, is the placenta not a medium for bacterial growth, however? Is simply keeping it dry on the outside enough to discourage potential bacterial growth? Does any of what remains inside--which is...

  12. Lotus Birth...What do yall think about this?

    stevierae replied to JVanRN's topic in Ob/Gyn

    No; I am certain she was dead serious. She was a very respected mother-baby nurse educator and also a high risk birth expert. She had another job teaching prenatal classes to members of various...

  13. Lotus Birth...What do yall think about this?

    stevierae replied to JVanRN's topic in Ob/Gyn

    yeah; these folks seem to lavish waaaaay more attention on the placenta then they do on the newborn, by their descriptions--the placenta immediately gets diapered, anointed with good smelling...

  14. Lotus Birth...What do yall think about this?

    stevierae replied to JVanRN's topic in Ob/Gyn

    You know, that's the way we did ALL deliveries when I worked L&D in the early '70s---that is, we always waited unitl the cord stopped pulsating to cut it. We clamped it right away. I had all 3 of...

  15. Potassium piggybacks

    stevierae replied to starcandy's topic in General Nursing

    "Neut" just stands for "Neutralize with NaHCO3," right? Or is "Neut" the actual name of the

  16. CPR after rigor mortis

    stevierae replied to HealinghandsRN's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    No kidding! Is the nurse educator whose "policy" is "If no DNR start CPR" brain-dead herself?

  17. What Is Your Most Gross, Yucky, Disgusting Nursing Horror Story?

    stevierae replied to yazisizit's topic in Nursing Humor

    Oh----how sad. I seem to remember that advanced AIDS patients can suffer from organic dementia, just as cancer patients with brain mets can (or, of course, Alzheimer's patients.) He probably had...

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

    stevierae replied to JUSTYSMOM's topic in Emergency

    Absolutely! Sure, it was a (luckily) superficial head wound--but you would have never forgiven yourself if you made that assessment yourself, and it turned out to be a fractured skull or a subdural...

  19. What Is Your Most Gross, Yucky, Disgusting Nursing Horror Story?

    stevierae replied to yazisizit's topic in Nursing Humor

    Man-----I gotta commend you guys. Working in the operating room, any story I could tell would seem very, very tame in comparison. I HAVE seen old guys try to grab nurses' butts, even reaching their...

  20. What do OR nurses do all day?

    stevierae replied to DeanG's topic in Operating Room

    Right back at ya, babe!

  21. What do OR nurses do all day?

    stevierae replied to DeanG's topic in Operating Room

    Oh, OK, that makes sense. We have relief nurses come in on other shifts, too--i.e., 9 a.m. or 10 a.m, or even 11 a.m. or noon. They may not be assigned to the same room all day--they are there to...

  22. What do OR nurses do all day?

    stevierae replied to DeanG's topic in Operating Room

    3 nurses per room!!! WHY? Personally, I don't like extra "help" in my room when I am the circulator--it's like everything you start to do, the other person is simultaneously starting to do, and the...

  23. Policy for passing fresh water?

    stevierae replied to mlolsonny's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    You know--I must be getting really old (I just turned 51--) but it never ceases to amaze me how these days a policy (and a detailed description of how to carry out the procedure, cookbook fashion)...

  24. plantar fasciitis

    stevierae replied to DDRN4me's topic in Orthopedic

    I got it when Doc Martens were popular (don't laugh--I live close enough to Seattle that, when grunge was king, Docs were part of the uniform--those and flannel shirts.) I even wore them in the OR...

  25. Is it uncommon for nurses to scrub?

    stevierae replied to studentnurse74's topic in Operating Room

    Excellent!! I was in my 40's before I saw a laparoscopic Roux-en-y, which is considered the "gold standard" as far as surgical management of morbid obesity goes. (There are many other types of...