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  1. Nurses writing up nurses?

    queenjean replied to txRN07's topic in General Nursing

    I guess my problems with individual nurses dealing with it on the private level is that individually, we have no idea of the scope of a problem. Unless you ALWAYS follow the same nurse every shift...

  2. Nurses writing up nurses?

    queenjean replied to txRN07's topic in General Nursing

    I cannot believe the number of nurses who state they would not write up an incident report! That totally undercuts your risk management's ability to find and correct common errors and system...

  3. Movie: "The Business of Being Born."

    queenjean replied to epiphany's topic in Certified Nurse-Midwives, CNM

    I appreciate this documentary bringing to light the complexities of pregnancy/birth care in our society. No matter where you are on the fence (homebirth, hospital birth or in between) there are huge...

  4. Best-smelling liquid meds!

    queenjean replied to Nurse!Nurse!Hello?'s topic in General Nursing

    I think the IV morphine we use at our hospital smells like

  5. Is there a Dr present at c-sections just for baby where you work.

    queenjean replied to crysobrn's topic in Ob/Gyn

    We don't usually have a ped/doc for the baby at the sections, unless we are doing the section for fetal

  6. What do you say to that?

    queenjean replied to Mnstn's topic in General Nursing

    I say something like "You seem to be under the impression that nurses are somehow less than doctors? I've seen doctors in action and I've seen nurses in action, and I want to be a nurse." ETA: If I'm...

  7. help..

    queenjean replied to charli's topic in General Nursing

    My thoughts exactly, especially based on your other posts. Maybe you could get a study group together with some *fellow classmates* to discuss these questions? Then you would all benefit and you...

  8. DNR tattoos...

    queenjean replied to MerdalRN's topic in General Nursing

    I suppose it *might* be helpful if, in smaller letters under DNR, his tattoo said: "See legal paperwork, left upper drawer of desk in office on main floor of house on 1403 S. 18th St, XXXXX, NY....

  9. Nurses writing up nurses?

    queenjean replied to txRN07's topic in General Nursing

    Our incident reports require the name of the writer as well as any witnesses to the incident and anyone involved. That allows for further investigation and

  10. Nurses writing up nurses?

    queenjean replied to txRN07's topic in General Nursing

    Part of my job as a night nurse is to do a chart check and a MAR check. If I find something that is missed that I cannot fix, I am supposed to "write it up" as an incident report. If *I* don't...

  11. Feacal Management Systems???

    queenjean replied to kukukajoo's topic in General Nursing

    What I don't like about the flexiseal is that the tube is sosoft that if it isn't positioned just right, it kinks off. Or if the pt moves a little bit, it can flatten or kink it so the stool backs up...

  12. Mulitcultural Nursing- pts and nurses views wanted

    queenjean replied to kukukajoo's topic in General Nursing

    If you can find a couple of nurses/doctors/health care workers amonst the refugees, that would be awesome. A couple of times I have been lucky enough to encounter a medical worker from another culture...

  13. Love OB/GYN--Hate coworkers

    queenjean replied to Vroom's topic in Ob/Gyn

    I am 4 months into a mother/babe/peds job, and while I love my coworkers, and the work is fine, I am really, really missing the excitement of the medical floor. I am slowly realizing that I am just...

  14. Are we marketing tools or are we in healthcare?!

    queenjean replied to MalgaBSN's topic in Ob/Gyn

    I don't think it is appropriate for them to attend all your staff meetings! How can that be? Are they

  15. IV in Emergency?

    queenjean replied to CEG's topic in Ob/Gyn

    I think, though, the original topic was IV access in laboring moms. I'm not sure if you are aware, maybe you are, that for some people IV access in a low risk mom is a controversial subject--some...

  16. Newborn blood glucose sticks

    queenjean posted a topic in Ob/Gyn

    I have a question. I would like to hear from other nurses, what you do in your hospital regarding blood glucose testing in newborns. Here's our basic protocol. Any infant over 3800 grams, any infant...

  17. Ethical question-being friends with a patient

    queenjean replied to tharris22's topic in General Nursing

    I live in a town of less than 100,000. How the heck am I never supposed to interact with these people outside of work? What about people who work in small towns and know everyone? I work with two...

  18. IV in Emergency?

    queenjean replied to CEG's topic in Ob/Gyn

    So these aren't laboring moms that you are talking about? Yeah, on a surgical pt, I would be uncomfortable not having an IV. I was under the impression you were talking about labor and

  19. IV in Emergency?

    queenjean replied to CEG's topic in Ob/Gyn

    Why is this? Do you work with a high risk population? Or is it because our interventions *make* everyone high

  20. Blood pressure meds..without parameters???

    queenjean replied to ari3sdog's topic in General Nursing

    Many BP meds have other uses, too. Like increasing cardiac output. So if you hold the med for a lowish BP, you might end up causing more harm than good. Also, my dad has BP in the 100/60s with his...

  21. Elderly holocaust survivors, coping with PTSD and dementia

    queenjean replied to canoehead's topic in General Nursing

    I *HIGHLY* recommend reading the book "The First and Final Nightmare of Sonia Reich," in which a son explores his mother's very late onset of PTSD. As a preteen girl she hid from the Nazis and...

  22. epidurals

    queenjean replied to babyktchr's topic in Ob/Gyn

    I think that you and I do not work in the same hospital, and maybe not in the same decade. I'd come and work in your hospital (or at one of the several other of the more progressive ones I see...

  23. epidurals

    queenjean replied to babyktchr's topic in Ob/Gyn

    I'm not working L&D right now, so I can't say for sure. But our unit is one small unit, and I sit there with the L&D nurses all night (when there is time to sit) and I take their pts 2 hours...

  24. epidurals

    queenjean replied to babyktchr's topic in Ob/Gyn

    Wow, I think I must work in a very, uh, slow hospital. Like maybe it is 20 years in the past. Our pts dont' get out of bed for 3-4 hours after the epidural usually, and that is because that's about...

  25. IV in Emergency?

    queenjean replied to CEG's topic in Ob/Gyn

    I worked (well, continue to do prn) in an out of hospital birth center for several years. We requested IV access only under certain parameters; so probably only about 25% of our moms had a lock....