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what kind of policies do you have for conscious sedation? how long do you monitor the child? when do you consider the child in the recovery stage? guess i'm loking for guidelines from other institutions to compare to ours! thanks:nurse:

we are supposed to be staffed 4:1 but more often than not it will be 5:1. during the winter if we get some really bad rsv's we do a 3:1 or 2:1 ( if people are willing to do overtime.)

i took care of a baby with rsv this month. it still hasn't ended. and i did a culture today for it in a 15 mo old today. doesn't the virus know the season is ended!!!!!!!

we were just in western kansas this may. there did seem to be quite a few hospitals. it may be a good idea to contact kansas state or university of kansas to see if they have any satillite clinics etc. in the western portion of the state. my son i...

you have to have a special personality, and lots of patience to work with kids. in the 30++++ years that i have been in peds if have met very few md's that are jerks and if you put them in their place they change their attitude. peds is the greates...

you may want to contact the society of pediatric nursing. they have the resources that you are looking for. the national secretary is barb larson and i know her e-mail address but i don't want to post it here. she has just helped to author a new bo...

so children do need psych meds but that is usually after a careful evaluation by psych. i would have mom talk to her peds and get a referral to a good PED psych for further evaluation. when kids are hurting, they do become combative if you touch t...

i forgot to say we don't use buritrols for meds. we use syringe pumps attached closer to the iv site. it takes 25 cc to get from the buritrol to the patient and if you are giving it at a rate of 25 cc to a little one it can take up to 2 hours for t...

i have always used buritrols on kids especially before we had pumps so that we didn't over hydrate little ones. now our unit uses them on kids under 5 yrs of age and only put in 2 hours worth of fluid. it forces you to go back every 2 hours miminum...

we use paper for nursing but are supposed to be going to computer soon. resp therapy does computer

yes i do use my left hand to write vitals etc when i don't have my board with me. i can't lose it that way. i tried paper towels etc but they got tossed when i would wash my hands. i work in peds and when a little patient saw me do it she told me ...

my brother had skintags on his ear. this was mucho years ago but all they did was to tie the skin tab to cut off the blood flow and allow it to fall off. he has not scars. i have also seen this done for extra digits in which there are no bones or ...

I WORK ON A PEDS UNIT SO I DO WEAR CARTOON TOPS TO DISTRACT THE KIDS. WHEN I'M TRYING TO TAKE TEMPS OR VITALS THE PARENTS USUALLY POINT OUT THE CARTOONS ON MY SCRUB. I GUESS IF I WORKED WITH ADULTS I WOULD PROBABLY WEAR MORE ADULT STYLE TOPS. I DO ...

JUST CAME BACK FROM THE SPN CONFERENCE. ONE OF THE THINGS DISCUSSED WAS TYPE 2 DIABETES IN CHILDREN. THE HIGHEST RISK CHILDREN WERE AMERICAN INDIAN AND AFRICAN AMERICAN. JUST AN FYI.

i like RESPECT!!!! which we don't get and Take This Job and Shove It! when the supervisor want more and more and more. DAY-O DAAAY-O at the end of the nit and when it hits bottom i sing the Barney Song (God forgive me) at that p...

it's a decision i have to make soon. i've been in nursing for a long long time and this is the hardest it has been. my body can't take it any more but i love caring for children. don't know what to do except to cut the number of hours to lessen th...

i don't know what you men by ratting out. i agree if you see a fellow nurse doing something to harm a patient then you need to go to that nurse and confront her. if she continues to place the patients in harms way then it is your duty to go to the ...

if you work hard enough to get the extra degrees or certifications and you want them on your id -- go for it -- you worked for it and you should be proud of it. God knows administration isn't going to give you anything for all the work you did to ge...

just a postscript--i have written myself up so i don't think it's such a big deal--one day i had to write up a med error that someone else made and she really came down on me! go figure!

an incident report is just that--something that happens and you happen to be the one who discovers it. if i make a mistake then i write it up. it's to protect the patient.

i didn't go into nursing for the money however i think if the pay was better and there were better benefits more young people would go into nursing. however what would really help is if we recieved more respect from administration and physicians. i...

this truly scares me i have many cousins in the north some of them are nurses. i'll have to e-mail them

God bless the families of the victims and help them get through this tragedy. i will definitely keep them in my prayers along with the 21 deaths in chicago this week at a niteclub.

in 30+ years this is the worst i have seen. gone are the times that the manager got down in the trenches with you. weekends are the only time i feel that management cares and that is because of our supervisor. when we need her she is there doing p...

if this goes through we regress 100 yrs instead of progressing. with all the leaps and bounds in medicine we need more highly educated people. this is not the way to go!