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    Truth about Nursing diagnosis

    talaxandra replied to UTRN2005's topic in General Nursing

    whether nursing is considered a profession or not depends on the definition being used. nursing meets, for example, the requirements listed by bullock & trombley (the new fontana dictionary of...
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    what can I read about dealing with death and family of the dying

    talaxandra replied to Grnrn's topic in Hospice, Palliative

    The great thing for me about Kubler-Ross is that helped me better understand why people (patients and family) respond in such varied ways to death and dying. I tell my patients that I understand it...
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    Share The Weirdest Reasons Patients Push The Call Light

    talaxandra replied to RN06-NP09's topic in Nursing Humor

    Nice critical thinking
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    Straight caths - to clamp or not to clamp?

    talaxandra replied to SaraO'Hara's topic in General Nursing

    This is something that a lot of nurses say but, as the OP points out, isn't based on anything that makes sense. It's been discussed on AN previously, with the same result - there's very little actual...
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    Once done with school and in a real job, do nurses still wash their hands???

    talaxandra replied to semester1kid's topic in General Students

    My hospital audits twice a year for hygeine. We have sanitiser outside every patient's room, in the room, at the foot of the bed, outside the tea room, outside the drug room, outside the steriroom,...
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    Lost my first patient - could I be in trouble?

    talaxandra replied to southernhospitality's topic in General Nursing

    A glucose of 330mg/dl (~18.5mmol/L) is low for DKA, which is almost exclusively associated with T1DM (your patient sounds like she had T2DM). Though you can get hyperkalemia in the early stages of...
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    what can I read about dealing with death and family of the dying

    talaxandra replied to Grnrn's topic in Hospice, Palliative

    I think it's great that you're thinking about this ahead of time :) We live in such a death-averse society in general, and this is in some ways more pronounced in health care. You might find this link...
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    What are the chances of being fired as a nurse?

    talaxandra replied to Crystal112's topic in General Nursing

    It depends where you work - I've know of a couple of people who were performance managed out of their jobs, and managerial positions being reshuffled to disloge difficult employees at NUM or above....
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    Now, if you saw this on a chart, what would YOU think?

    talaxandra replied to AngelfireRN's topic in General Nursing

    I once worked with a nurse who said she was 5'13" because she didn't like the idea of being over
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    Now, if you saw this on a chart, what would YOU think?

    talaxandra replied to AngelfireRN's topic in General Nursing

    I for some reason googled the phrase "acute coffee" - and got over 1,000 hits! Sure, some of them were about an acute coffee crisis and most of the rest were research reports about acute coffee...
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    Best ER Nurse quotes

    talaxandra replied to JennyAS's topic in Emergency

    One fo the surgeons who guest lectured while I was studying colo-rectal as a student told us that if you ever do that, tell the staff because he did the mandatory rectal exam on an acute abdo pain...
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    Things you'd LOVE to be able to tell patients, and get away with it.

    talaxandra replied to AngelfireRN's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    "Yes, you have an ABI, and I appreciate that's difficult. But you can manage to moderate your language when the staff looking after you are male, or doctors, or if security arrives. So shut your...
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    Fluid Balance Charts

    talaxandra replied to tipperary's topic in General Students

    Hi Fiona, I'm on leave at the moment but I'll see if I can get one of my friends there to either photocopy one of the cahrts or maybe bring one to me - I'll take a photo and send it to your email as...
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    The Great Double Standard?

    talaxandra replied to Doog's topic in Men in Nursing

    I don't know how long men have been in nursing here, but my former NUM is in his fifties - he was a midwife before moving into renal, was my manager for a decade, and was NUM at another hospital for...
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    Fluid Balance Charts

    talaxandra replied to tipperary's topic in General Students

    We have A4-sized laminated posters at every nurses station with photos of each kind of container (icecream tub, soup bowl, coffee mug, different kinds of glasses, disposable cups etc) and their...
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    Acidosis...K+lvl of 5.2 and a bag of potassuim 20meq

    talaxandra replied to kieraloo's topic in General Nursing

    I'm glad Gila was so helpul. The reason other members were asking about clinical history is that all of those elements can also contribute to K+ requirements in patients with high normal serum K+. In...
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    TV shows and movies that are ruined, because you know better

    talaxandra replied to HollyHobby's topic in Nursing Humor

    OMG - that drives me the most nuts, that an entire film premise is based on an easily checked, massively wrong 'fact'. A film-making former friend asked me to act as medical adviser for a script he...
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    Just curious as to what you would do in this situation.

    talaxandra replied to NurseCard's topic in General Nursing

    Oh, good point! I'd never have thought of that
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    Who has the most "gravy" RN job ever?

    talaxandra replied to OnaTrek's topic in General Nursing

    Friends working in the UK worked a brief agency shift at a drug trial facility - after the TGN1412 trial in 2006 drug trial patients must have two nurses available at all times, including covering...
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    Usa nurse going to australia

    talaxandra replied to USA: TEXAS NURSE's topic in International Nursing

    Okay, I'll give you the weather, provided you mean "hotter" when you say "better" and, depending on what you like, it could be argued that there are advantages to a Qld lifestyle over ours, but better...
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    They must think we are stupid...

    talaxandra replied to HDNurse's topic in Dialysis, Renal, Urology

    Thank you for your response, anurseadvocate. I suppose my response to the OP came from an understanding of the amount of education dialysis patients in my network receive over the course of their care...
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    They must think we are stupid...

    talaxandra replied to HDNurse's topic in Dialysis, Renal, Urology

    Yeah, traumarus, me too - it's only been eleven or twelve years of renal nursing for
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    New CNA worried might have caught HIV working with HIV positive resident

    talaxandra replied to MarellaMagdalene's topic in General Nursing

    No need to feel silly - how would you know if nobody told you? I'm just glad we were able to help alleviate your fears
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    They must think we are stupid...

    talaxandra replied to HDNurse's topic in Dialysis, Renal, Urology

    I have to say that, until I started studying health ethics I never thought about the judgement implicit in the term 'non-compliance' and until I began working with renal patients I had no idea about...
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    What is the highest temp you have seen?

    talaxandra replied to momthenRN's topic in MICU, SICU

    43.0 Celsius (109.4 Farenheit) on a young guy who drowned - I could feel the heat radiating off him from the door, and he died around day