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

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, and then when we are done, we wipe down the meter ...

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 year)

Nothing! You're lucky to get a bonus!

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 my children, I wanted a job that would offer me par...

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 for a few days. After everyone from staff and visi...

Re: the "letter" from Dr Stephen Frazer, here it is on snopes.com http://www.snopes.com/politics/soapbox/frazer.asp

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, coreg, insulins. Even with our big daily med pass @ ...

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 the stuff that's sticky, brown and smells sweet. Co...

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 bag of saline as a flush. Since our floor is post...

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 here uses the B/P cuff in their room, as mentioned ab...

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 admission). Eves it is sometimes 5:1 or 6:1, and night...

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 co-morbidities as well. I like post op nursing so much I sta...

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 done.

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 one of the oldest in my class - not even close! I'...

I'm about 22/23 miles away (depending on which sidestreets I take) - mostly interstate driving though, takes me around 25-30 minutes (depending on stop lights on the sidestreets)

1200 for a Diploma based program.

Most days, yes, yes I would.... Let me clarify... I hold a bachelor's and a Master's in other fields, and worked in the corporate field for a while. It's not all it's cracked up to be, definitely not my cup of tea. There is stress everywhere, in ev...

the RNs have always done them here.

I too have used allheart before with no problem... until a few months ago... I ordered just plain white and blue scrubs and it took almost 2 months for all of my order to arrive. Very frustrating dealing with their customer service. I received part...

Honestly, who has the time?? I know at that time I am busy making first rounds and assessments. If they have a 7:30 (usually something like insulin or maybe a protonix drip, or PO) or 8 a.m. meds I usually give them first rounds. Luckily our daily ...

We deal with NG tubes all the time on our floor (lots of bowel surgeries and bowel obstructions). To check placement we use audible air injection. You have to unhook the NG tube from the suction, remove the small cylinder thing that goes between th...

Yes, I always thank the CNAs every shift. I always appreciate the little things they can do for me (and vice versa).

We give all of our protonix IV in piggyback bags to be run over 30 minutes. Nexium isn't given at our hospital but where I did many of my student clinicals, it was the drug of choice and we gave it over 5 minutes with our instructors.

Part time - I work 20 hours a week (12 and an 8) - surgical tele.