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  1. Hospital In-Services

    wishingmary posted a topic in General Nursing

    I just pray I stay out of politics. I appreciate my responders

  2. Do you use the trendelenberg position?

    wishingmary replied to wishingmary's topic in MICU, SICU

    Thanks Gweneth, I checked them out. I didn't find anything with a quick search. The second one has a list of topics I can look through. There are alot of interesting things in

  3. Do you use the trendelenberg position?

    wishingmary replied to wishingmary's topic in MICU, SICU

    Gwenith, Thanks for the post. I was wondering if the literature was calling a spade a spade or Trendelenberg a Trendelenberg. Only my Black Med/Surg text brought up modified Trendelenberg. The...

  4. Do you use the trendelenberg position?

    wishingmary replied to wishingmary's topic in MICU, SICU

    I have posted this under critical care but I do want nurses in research to see it too... I am a nursing student and a nurse aide in the MICU. My last semester of nursing school requires I do a...

  5. Do you use the trendelenberg position?

    wishingmary replied to wishingmary's topic in MICU, SICU

    Thanks jnette. We use a slow dialysis in the MICU called SLED with one on one care. Didn't even think of dialysis and of course I'm asking about this position in addition to other interventions like...

  6. Overdoses...

    wishingmary replied to rnnurse2b's topic in General Nursing

    I work as an aide in the MICU and we get a lot of OD's. I agree with Nurse Ratched. We had a patient who got 7 rounds of mucomyst. You could smell it all the way out of the unit, down the hall to...

  7. Downsizing in a nursing shortage????

    wishingmary replied to -jt's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    On another website I frequent I was just talking about how I distrust a local hospital system that has opened 3 new hospitals in my area, one for cardiac, one for ortho, and one now opening for...

  8. too many interventions in L&D

    wishingmary replied to mark_LD_RN's topic in Ob/Gyn

    One more thought. The EFM. Once admitted to the L&D, they put that on me. I told those who were with me to ignore it. The monitor would say I was having a doosey, and I'd be like its way off....

  9. too many interventions in L&D

    wishingmary replied to mark_LD_RN's topic in Ob/Gyn

    This discussion brings back my fears as a first and second time mother. I didn't work in L&D but I did my homework. What I found scared me to death. My choice was to get good prenatal care,...