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what is the time that you are expected to make it back to the hospital when on call and called in for a case?

i was wondering what everyone is practicing in regards to iv therapy on kids. presently we use pediatric iv tubing on all kids under 16 years and all kids under 6 have iv pump also. do you go by weight or age for your iv therpy? and will you share g...

me too

i too would love to chat. maybe we could share information on alot of practices and ideas. i have recently started as director of surgical services for a 4 room OR. and 2 room endo unit. i'm having difficulty with what is accepted practice in an OR. ...

There is something tragically wrong when athletes and actors are paid millions , and nurses, soldiers, firefighters, etc are paid so poorly. What volumes that speaks of how we are valued in society.

Is anyone doing bronch's in their endo units? if so would you be willing to talk to me about the whole process. presently they are done in our OR, but there is talk of moving them to the Endo suite. thanks

at our hospital OR nurses do recoveries also. A rural hospital with usually under 100 beds can't usually financially survive with OR, PACU, and ENDO nurses all on call. That is why there is cross training, and competencies. an orientation is not what...

I need to know a standard of care issue regarding penile implants. Our Urologist is asking RN's to catheterize a patient post op penile implant for not voiding. They have had a catheter intraop, but it was pulled prior to arrival to outpatient area. ...

I think you'd make a better MD than a nurse. Your post indicates you have the attitude of most MD's...............nurses are beneath them. please do me a favor and stay out of our wonderful, dedicated, intellegient profession, and become a doctor.......

I too take issue with the fact being effecient, organized, etc. isn't enough make sure you smile. Nurses are not robots, were people. Some days after dealing with a pediatric code that didn't make it, an elderly abuse case you spent the morning clean...

we too use pentax and have alot of repairs. for a switchover to olympus would be too expensive, but i'd love to know if your hospital does that. we also have problems with poor rep service. Do you have the Endopro computer system?

we are starting to inject mitomycin into the bladder for urology. I was wondering if anyone could give me direction to a web site to help develop a policy for nursing. Any help or direction would be greatly appreciated............thanks

In New York, the Education Department does allow RN's to advance scopes under direct supervision of MD, and with a competency. This is acceptable within our scope of practice.

We use standards of care instead of care plans.

It sounds like the process does not work, not that the charge nurse is a wimp. It sounds like your charge nurse is advocating for her patients to be pre-medicated, and in doing this, longer preadmit times might be neccessary. My other thought would ...

I work in 101 bed hospital where they have started to do procedures in x-ray and nuclear med where they want nurses. As an RN i was told establish whatever "paperWork" I wanted.HELLOOOOOOO, I don't even know what I'm suppose to be charting. I'm not ...

I work in 101 bed hospital where they have started to do procedures in x-ray and nuclear med where they want nurses. As an RN i was told establish whatever "paperWork" I wanted.HELLOOOOOOO, I don't even know what I'm suppose to be charting. I'm not ...

Would love to talk about documentation on patients in radiology and nursing credentialing. 315 361 2113....thanks

Can anyone give me a web site or protocols for IV site care post infiltrate or drug irritation. Our doc's very on practice, some like cold, some like hot packs and I'm wondering if anyone could help. We recently had a parient get a red streaking up h...

yes i work for a hospital in new york

I have been a nurse for over 25 plus years. I am finding physician abuse and inappropriate behavior still being overlooked by administration. Does anyone have a no tolerance or red flag policy on this. My DON says MD abuse is at all hospitals and I'm...