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  1. titrating drips and hemodynamics

    passing thru replied to tsgarman's topic in General Nursing

    Xigris, Just got back online after the weekend, thanks a lot for sharing your knowledge with all of us. Personally I'm printing and saving, as I know I'll forget it over the holidays....and I...

  2. titrating drips and hemodynamics

    passing thru replied to tsgarman's topic in General Nursing

    Xigris: I think it would be outstanding if you taught your hemodynamics class right here on the Allnurses BB. If not the whole class, why not post a few hemodynamic correlations each week, a few...

  3. patient leaving with iv lock in place

    passing thru replied to ellencrn's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    Interesting thread. What is the association between meth use and infected teeth? I haven't seen any patients wanting to go home with their saline lock in. This thread sure makes me recalculate my...

  4. titrating drips and hemodynamics

    passing thru replied to tsgarman's topic in General Nursing

    Good post, Hoolihan.... I seldom hear of hospitals sending their CC nurses to classes these days... I tell all my ICU pals, "you can't learn it all in the unit." I think it is disgraceful that new ICU...

  5. Wearing goggles while putting in an IV or performing phlebotomy?

    passing thru replied to VickyRN's topic in General Nursing

    Blood doesn't splatter when you are sticking a vein, although anything is possible. The only time I witnessed a splatter was a doc inserting a radial arterial line.........blood splattered everywhere...

  6. Rude Relative, advise please

    passing thru replied to bulletproofbarb's topic in General Nursing

    It is family dynamics. Obviously the rude one has some unresolved issues with the patient. Seems she wants to pay her debt to him here at what she perceives as "the end." Some family members...

  7. pro's vs. con's of working in a teaching hospital

    passing thru replied to szccdw's topic in General Nursing

    RubyVee...your last statement.."you don't see that in a teaching hospital..." In mine I saw it. I worked neuro.......and we got lots of overflow..medical , surgical, everything ... The neuro docs had...

  8. Post Transfusion Labs

    passing thru replied to Tweety's topic in General Nursing

    I'm just guessing. Here's what I think. Frequently, we give the patient iv Lasix after the blood has infused. Maybe that has an effect on the results. Anyway, we generally wait an hour. Giving...

  9. cardiac nurses please answer ????

    passing thru replied to LuvbabiesRN's topic in Cardiac

    One thing I noticed reading responses.... EF is never 100 %. It does not start at 100 % and decrease. The highest I've ever seen recorded was 68 %....and that was considered "perfect" by the...

  10. Infusing TPN

    passing thru replied to rileygrl11's topic in General Nursing

    You're exactly right Untamed. You finally hit the nail on the head. I agree 100 %... Yes, it is THE PRACTITIONER. That is the world-class hospitals' reason for NEVER allowing blood to be drawn thru...

  11. Infusing TPN

    passing thru replied to rileygrl11's topic in General Nursing

    I agree, but nurses have ENOUGH !! to do. Why take on chemistry?? How , may I ask, will you know the Pepcid is 6.9 when it should be 7.4?? Or the Flagyl is 8.1 and needs to be diluted to 7.4?...

  12. Infusing TPN

    passing thru replied to rileygrl11's topic in General Nursing

    In the large # 1 in the nation cancer center/teaching hospital I worked in.... they NEVER drew blood from a central line. Their explanation: "It increases the risk of infection." ( Remember these...

  13. Infusing TPN

    passing thru replied to rileygrl11's topic in General Nursing

    tHE # 1 RANKED cancer center in the U.S. has been doing this for 25 years. Their pts. have low white blood counts D/T immunosuppression. I don't think they would put their patients at risk if...

  14. Infusing TPN

    passing thru replied to rileygrl11's topic in General Nursing

    Maybe the patient got septic from another cause. Only if the catheter was removed that day and cultured by lab with blood and urine cultures, can you say with even minimum certainty that the i.v....

  15. Infusing TPN

    passing thru replied to rileygrl11's topic in General Nursing

    Are you in a major teaching hospital Tory? Or a major cancer center? Are these triple lumen central catheter intravenous lines? In major cancer hospitals I worked in, and in some teaching...

  16. Have you ever given report to the next shift...

    passing thru replied to askater11's topic in General Nursing

    You sound like a cool nurse ktwlpn. But, if you do want to hang around every day for 30 minutes overtime, at the end of the month, you've got enuf $$$ for a car payment..... as in NEW CAR....

  17. Have you ever given report to the next shift...

    passing thru replied to askater11's topic in General Nursing

    I hate to have the kardex read to me...I can read it. TELL ME WHAT HAPPENED TO THE PT. ON YOUR SHIFT. It makes a diference if you are familiar with the patient. But I hate nurses who read me the...

  18. Have you ever given report to the next shift...

    passing thru replied to askater11's topic in General Nursing

    AndyLyn, You are soooooooooo right ! These are the same nurses who don't know #!*## about the patients when you return to receive report from them !

  19. Appropriate attire for shadowing floor nurse position

    passing thru replied to susanmary's topic in General Nursing

    You're right

  20. Appropriate attire for shadowing floor nurse position

    passing thru replied to susanmary's topic in General Nursing

    Per Conventional Wisdom: The classic "rule," in any job, anywhere, is: You dress for the job you aspire to. In this case, the shadow nurse should be dressed as a

  21. How much time do you spend at bedside per shift..10 minutes???

    passing thru posted a topic in General Nursing

    My co-workers and I have discussed this a lot in the past year. Except for ER and ICU areas, which are excluded from the topic; we are noticing that nurses are rapidly becoming "medication...

  22. ?? about palpitations

    passing thru replied to maeyken's topic in Cardiac

    So, what was your

  23. Does anyone know the current sign-on bonus at HCA hospitals?

    passing thru posted a topic in General Nursing

    My neighbor e - mailed me that she has accepted an offer with an HCA hospital and said the HR mgr. said their bonus was $4,000. I emailed her back that all HCA's have given $5,000 sign on...

  24. Does anyone know the current sign-on bonus at HCA hospitals?

    passing thru replied to passing thru's topic in General Nursing

    HCA's are usually for one year.. I know of hospitals in southern Arizona and Texas and California are offering $20,000 and $30, 000 for 3 year committment.s $10,000 for each year.....Lots of...

  25. Fibromyalgia and working fulltime

    passing thru replied to Burr's topic in General Nursing

    Just curious, How does fibromyalgia affect you? What are your