debthern

debthern

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  1. Winston Salem State University

    debthern posted a topic in North Carolina Nursing

    Has anyone done their rn-->bsn program? Looking into it and wondered if it was good or

  2. Cpan/capa

    debthern posted a topic in PACU

    Are any of you certified? Any study

  3. Cardiac Sheaths

    debthern posted a topic in Cardiac

    Our pediatric PACU was informed that we would begin pulling sheaths at the bedside and no longer in the Cath lab is this appropriate? Is it done in other hospitals? Are the patients still sedated as...

  4. all PACU RNs Wrote up!

    debthern replied to jrgrad1912's topic in PACU

    We have to have an anesthesia note signed before our patients can be discharged but it has nothing to do with our practice it is because if it is not signed medicare will not

  5. On-call pay...standard or not?

    debthern replied to BabyLady's topic in General Nursing

    We have an interesting call situation during the week in that we are on call Mon-Fri for the full week, we get paid for 40 hours and work in the unit 2 6 hour shifts during the day and then are on...

  6. Transition from computer to paper charting

    debthern replied to starletRN's topic in General Nursing

    we recently went to computer and while I have gotten used to it I still feel that patient care is

  7. New PACU Nurse

    debthern replied to mrrn12's topic in PACU

    :chuckle omg this is exactly what I say a dozen times a day and then they fall back to sleep and wake up and say when am I going to have my

  8. I Hate Surg!!!

    debthern replied to ChristineN's topic in General Nursing

    guess I am a little confused about the no verbal/telephone orders...is the doctor supposed to get up in the middle of the night and drive to the hospital to write an order? You would have alot of...

  9. I Hate Surg!!!

    debthern replied to ChristineN's topic in General Nursing

    All of our drugs are ordered based on patient weight not age but if you are taking a phone order you should know what the safe dose is...We don't take verbal orders but we do take phone orders but...

  10. Patient assignments

    debthern replied to Laney123's topic in PACU

    we are assigned 2 nurses for each 3 slots we alternate who gets a pt and example is nurse a and b are in slot 1,2,3 nurse a gets slot 1 and nurse b slot 3 nurse a gets a pt and they both get the...

  11. Does each unit have a procedural manual

    debthern replied to fsaav's topic in General Nursing

    our hospital has all the manuals on the intranet it's under Policy and Procedures. Good

  12. Who numbs for needlesticks?

    debthern replied to care4kids's topic in Pediatric

    We use lmx4 in our preop dept and also use lidocaine depends on how old the patient

  13. Just worked a day in Nursing Hell

    debthern posted a topic in General Nursing

    Sorry to vent but we started computer charting today and it was horrible we were totally unprepared and had to put the OR on hold more then

  14. Anyone participate in a Clinical ladder program?

    debthern replied to Nacki's topic in General Nursing

    we have clinical ladder at our work we get 10% for each of the two steps...it was some extra work but not that bad and definitely worth the extra

  15. Families can now call the code team

    debthern replied to rn-jane's topic in General Nursing

    We have a care team here that the families can call...it isn't our Code team but a team that comes and

  16. Post op Pedicatric transports without an RN

    debthern replied to ativanni's topic in PACU

    we have cna's who transport all patients if they are not on a monitor, do not have an epidural or a chest tube...of course the nurse transport the icu

  17. PACU RN requirements

    debthern replied to smnurse's topic in PACU

    something we do is we assign 2 nurses to 3 bays which allows you to put a more experienced nurse with a less experienced

  18. low census, cancell that deprives nurses of their livlihooding shifts

    debthern replied to jam2007's topic in General Nursing

    I am actually home today because I got called off. They post all these extra shifts and then cancel people so go figure...they do try to let people work their alloted numbers of hours so I think they...

  19. Most memorable thing patient has said to me...

    debthern replied to Nurse Salt's topic in General Nursing

    one night i was on call and feeling grumpy for getting called in to recover a patient Turns out she was a 90 year old woman who had fallen and broken her hip....she put her hand on my cheek and said...

  20. MRSA isolation

    debthern replied to chenoaspirit's topic in General Nursing

    you would think but we don't even though we take down the curtains we leave the

  21. MRSA isolation

    debthern replied to chenoaspirit's topic in General Nursing

    we have gone so far that now we are taking the curtain in the room down after a contact isolation has been in there...do you keep or discard the supplies in the

  22. This is Too weird...

    debthern replied to cute_cabbage2005's topic in General Nursing

    we allow our parents to climb in bed with their kids and even transport them from the pacu to their rooms with both in the bed I walked in a room once of an infant and the unmarried teenage parents...

  23. Got my evaluation today...

    debthern replied to NurseCard's topic in General Nursing

    Don't feel bad I went in to talk to my boss about moving up the clinical ladder and she used it as an opportunity to tell me that others were complaining to her about my negative attitude...nothing...

  24. crocs

    debthern replied to k_r_ah's topic in General Nursing

    I quit wearing mine when my foot stuck to the floor and I nearly fell to the ground...have noticed several other people with the same

  25. need a good idea for this patient

    debthern replied to dcnballmom's topic in General Nursing

    what about sheepskin for her to lie or sit on? There are those cushions that take the pressure off the coccyx that leave it open and are covered with