Piki

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1. Pyxis - The Ultimate Fomite

   Piki replied to Turtle in scrubs's topic in General Nursing

   try wetting your finger tip with a drop of water first, almost always

2. Contact Isolation

   Piki replied to payang0722's topic in General Nursing

   At any given time we have at least several people in contact isolation on our floor at the hospital. When we do accu-checks, we use the plastic bag that holds the gown as a cover for the accu-check,...

3. Where do you get your CE (continuing education) hours?

   Piki replied to Bruce_Wayne's topic in General Nursing

   We get enough ISUs and mandatory classes at work to cover the CEU requirements in our state (which is 30 hours to renew every other

4. What kind of holiday bonus do you get?

   Piki replied to cbcle's topic in General Nursing

   Nothing! You're lucky to get a

5. Survey For My Senior Project! Please Take a Few Minutes to Answer These 5 Questions

   Piki replied to Formyseniorproject's topic in General Nursing

   1. How long have you been a nurse? 3 years 2. What motivated you to choose nursing as a profession? After being disillusioned in the corporate world in a high paying career, and then being a SAHM to...

6. Took Care of a Patient with MRSA Today

   Piki replied to HappyMeNow's topic in General Nursing

   I cannot count the number of times we've had patients on the floor (we also routinely swab nares for MRSA upon admission/discharge) that have ended up having MRSA, or C-Diff after being on the floor...

7. Health Care Bill

   Piki replied to VerbalGrl715's topic in General Nursing

   Re: the "letter" from Dr Stephen Frazer, here it is on snopes.com

8. Largest med pass

   Piki replied to twokidsmom,rn's topic in General Nursing

   wow, that's an early time of day to be passing so many meds. Here our daily meds are typically ordered at 0900 and 2100. Usually more a.m. meds. Certain meds are given @ 0730, such as protonix,...

9. You know you're Old School when...

   Piki replied to snoopy29's topic in General Nursing

   I'm not old school (been an RN only 3 years) but we still do 3 glass cycles on our post TURPs or prostate surgery patients. I've also used granulex spray, so it can't be totally old school. It's...

10. IV piggyback

    Piki replied to buttons4's topic in General Nursing

    Protocol at our hospital is that larger bags of IV antibiotics (say 250 cc or higher) can be run as primaries as long as you flush before and after with saline. Smaller bags we will run with a small...

11. What kind of personal medical equipment are nurses allowed to use at the hospitals?

    Piki replied to Blackheartednurse's topic in General Nursing

    Why would you want to buy and bring in your own medical equipment? Glucometers every place I've seen have special hospital docking units to download blood sugars into the computer. Every patient...

12. Med/ Surg Patient to Nurse Ratio

    Piki replied to pilpusher's topic in Medical-Surgical

    I cannot imagine having 9-12 patients on a med-surg floor! Yikes. I work surgical/tele med-surg, typically on days we get max 5:1 patients, sometimes only 4 (but you know you will get the first...

13. Are there nurses out there that actually LIKE Med-Surg?

    Piki replied to LeLeeFNP's topic in General Nursing

    Ditto except I work on a surgical floor and definitely prefer surgical patients over medical! We do get medical patients as well and of course many surgical patients come with many medical...

14. Wow that was stupid!!

    Piki replied to nrsman1's topic in General Nursing

    At our hospital, Respiratory is responsible for putting patients on their Cpap/BiPap and checking to make sure the equipment is working. Glad you called respiratory and no harm was

15. Am i too old to start aiming for a nursing career

    Piki replied to rompril's topic in General Nursing

    Just to add to the chorus.... No, no, no! You are not too old. I went back to school for my 2nd career in my late 30's and graduated nursing school @ age 41. 34 is young! I thought for sure I'd be...