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Sounds like a passport was implanted which looks like a mediport only much smaller. The passport can indeed migrate or flip over so its very important to feel and determine that the port/septum side is up. You must still use a huber or noncoreing n...

I am a nurse but not in OB so wanted to ask the experts. Is it common for OB to change the due date in the last few weeks pregnancy? Daughter had been going to fetal maternal medicine for entire pregnancy until a week ago and has been told she is d...

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The best advice I can offer to any new nurse is to be very kind to yourselves and don't be afraid to say you are overwhelmed. The best thing students can do before applying to a department is to be very observant of the staff during your rotation th...

Just a question for the OP, since it seems vomiting was relieved why not go home and take the RX's you already had? Toq

I was giving a guy a TD IM shot in his arm. He is all tense so I told him "Just relax, let it hang limp" and he replies "It usually is" and his wife starts to giggle. I proceed to give the injection and say "This won't hurt but you'll be a little s...

Another solution that may work for you is going to part-time, since your spouse makes enough to support this change. This was to option I went with a few yrs ago and its worked out great. I love nursing and using my skills to help and educate peopl...

A few yrs back had a 32 yr old female arrive by EMS... she walks off the rig through our doors holding her fingers to her carotid "I have no pulse" and denies any other complaints. Ems giggling and shaking their heads. Triage--------------> Toq

Maybe over time due to people opting for more government health care options over the higher priced Insurance companies, we will all become government employees and at 20yrs of work we get to retire with full benefits. I can dream can't I? With the...

The new bill will make insurance "affordable" for many that currently can't afford coverage. There will be subsidies to help the unemployed and low income. Businesses will be encouraged to provide health care options to their employees, again I ven...

Ok Just had to post this... [url=http://http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_m64cy1MMPg][/url] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_m64cy1MMPg Toq

No where did I post that people with poor life choices would not get care. I again for the record stated that if one can afford 5-6 dollars a day for smokes why could they not put same amount into their healthcare. Why, Lamazeteacher, are you so op...

If you read my post I never said there were not people that did deserve or need help/ assistance. I merely stated that there are people that do work the system and hurt the others that truly need help. I have also read many posts here by people tha...

People have the right to smoke, drink, eat diets that will kill them and engage in risky behavior of all sorts. The issue is not about rights because if you work to support the above "choices" then why not work to support paying for your healthcare ...

The intractable nausea and vomiting that is observed putting their finger down their throat to make themselves heave. The hyperventilating anxiety attack put in a stretcher complaining they are going to passout and being told to "Go ahead". I perso...

Could go either way depending on the age of the pt, VS, and history. If both are equally critical my ER would make room for both, if any delay (room being cleaned, pt being moved) I would get the EKG, start the line get the labs and put O2 on the pt...

Hospitals are businesses and are about their bottom line and making money. I think Nurses and other hospital staff will see their own benefits take a hit. Meaning the hospital will decrease the percent they pay for employee benefits. You may see f...

The storm is coming and we all have no clue the magnitude of it. The people that can pay now will continue to pay and the ones that can't or won't will still not be able to contribute (except to the debt of healthcare). Doctors will continue to ord...

My husband used to have problems swallowing pills too. I made him practice with MM's. They have coating similar to some pills and if it started to melt it didn't taste bad, plus being chocolate it would not obstruct because it "melts in your mouth ...

I think the saddest thing about nursing is the high turn over and burn out. Most get to this point because we are in a profession that we have no control or voice. We turn on each other instead of being supportive. I truely believe that most enter...

I just want to say Thank you all for being there. Thank you for your patience and understanding not only with our loved ones that are patients but with some of our less than easy to please family members. Thank for staying in a job so many nurses c...

While everyone has valid points, the problem lies with administration and their need to maximize profit. The hospital I work in and I would venture to say the majority of hospitals staff the oncoming shift with the current patient census. This mean...

Zoolander!! She maybe had that "Blue Steel" look going. Toq

Not sure if this counts... Fred Schultz who was married to Lawrencia Bambenek "Run Bambi Run" became a respiratory therapist. Sad sad story. Toq

It kinda sounds like some (note the word some and not all) recovering addicts that admit to their addiction and then get angry at non narcotic pain interventions want the doc to tell them "Hey its ok to take the narcotics again". I have had recoveri...