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Hello everyone Need some serious advice/ guidance, please! Little background first: I graduated from ASN program end of May, took and passed NCLEX in July and became a licensed RN the same month. Started working on a busy cardio/ vascular/ thoracic...

Thanks for the support. I felt a little silly when, after posting, all kinds of similar threads just "appeared". Still, I guess that it was still kind of cathartic. I have been trying to keep my emotions to myself, all bottled up inside (although...

Hello everyone, In need of some good advice and some consolation. A little background: In June, graduated, took the boards and started on what I thought would be my dream job on a tele/ cardiothoracic unit. On Mon, I had my second "big" mistake. I ...

It's not "no contact with in-pts" so much as it's no bed-side nursing. I don't know what management plans to offer and I would like to have some input. There is a clinic next door w/ doctor's offices and out-pt testing. That may be one of the choic...

Anybody?

I'll try to be short and to the point. Our one month old has a bad case of diaper rash. Probably combo of fungal and something else. Usual stuff doesn't seem to work for more than a day. So the family practitioner that we see had some thing calle...

Thanks for the reply, Oldiebutgoodie, We tried nystatin cream covered with Balmex for a week. It was a tug of war. Really and truly, the best ting has been just having his lil' butt open to air, but it only works until we cover him up. And we have t...

I wasn't familiar with this eye gtt, so I looked it up. Here's a link for those interested (as well as a good resource on the web): http://www.rxlist.com/cgi/generic/chloramphenicolopung.htm Wave

I agree with the previous post about not flushing. If the pt has been seen by a MD (any), hopefully the situation has been correctly assessed. What caused the ulcer in the first place? Do you know how deep? If it is superficial, more like a corne...

Hope that helps, or at least points you in the right, I mean, correct direction :chuckle. Wave Oops! didn't mean to reply twice!

I agree with the others, not quite sure what you're after here. Are you passing meds right now? If you're trying to understand what the directions are, the doctor wrote: "ointment to left knee at night". You might find this web site useful: http:...

Looks like I'm moving up! After a short hiatus (due to school/ family life) I'm finally able to find time to hang out here. School got pretty rough, although this is no big surprise to any of you. Since Sept, I've been working as an aide (although I ...

To be truthful, I'm not positive but I believe that you have to buy the book(s) and the rest is "free". I was looking at the situation as whether or not it would be advantageous to take now, before I learned about telemetry, or if it would be too di...

Can anybody explain why/ how , say, a healthy runner in top shape can have a HR below 60 and the sinus-atrial node is functioning normally (or is it?)? If SA node is 60-100, AV node is 40-60 (even the healthiest person couldn't have a HR below 40, c...

Well, after 20 years working with eyes and eyeglasses in one way or another, I have left the safe harbor of Ophthalmology for parts unknown. Anticipating my graduating from my AD RN program in May '08, I have changed jobs to work as a "nursing assoc...

At clinical this past weekend, our professor had various CBC and electrolyte lab values written in a unusual grid configuration. It looked the capital letter "Y" -tipped to the left with a line through it (kinda like this:>-+-)and a second that l...

Once again, Daytonite, I am indebted to you for your wonderful assistance. I had no idea what to call it, let alone how to set it up/ use it. Thanks and thanks again. ~Wave

I liked the way one of the ophthalmologists used to explain about corneal abrasions: the outer layer of cells fills in the abrasion quickly -like quicksand, but it takes a little while longer for everything to set up (as in cement). Good mental imag...

First, I agree with others that the parent seems to be grasping at money and that the issue will probably be about supervision and how things were allowed to get to the point that punches were thrown. As far as the legal issues here, I have no exper...

I have an order for a med that I'm to give tomorrow that reads as follows: "Protonix (pantoprazole) 40 mg; 40mg=1 tab, EC tab, ACB" I assume that the EC tablet is an extended release, and I know that a.c. means before meals, so does A.C.B. mean befo...

Sorry, my bad dani_girl, I'm a little crazy trying to look up like 40 or 50 meds! ~Wave

I've been running several searches trying to find an old thread regarding fitting/ fit testing of the N95 or TB mask and I've come up fruitless. :Crash: I was hoping somebody else remembered this topic and could direct me. ( A little background: I...

It wasn't that the mask fit over the glasses, just that air was escaping around the upper cheeks/ nose and was fogging up the backside of the lenses. I could move my glasses down on my nose, but then I don't see as well (plus it drives me crazy, I w...

I'm not sure how you found this, every search I ran kept coming up with any thread that had the word mask in it. thanks again! ~Wave

First, thanks for your reply, suemom2kay. The last thing I want to be doing as a new nursing associate is to be turning down assignments for any reason other than it is beyond the scope of my practice. the same for when I graduate and start my nur...