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I am having trouble visualizing all these cables. Does this impact patient mobility at all? Is it anymore problematic than the usual ICU lines? I work in a small rural ICCU, nine beds, where docs are not putting in Swans like they used too. You have ...

We do not use the iced injectate either, but still stock the equipment for it. I have only used it as a trouble shooting method, when things are not working. Usually just getting a cool IV bag off the shelf is all it takes. I have heard of the conti...

I heard a nurse with a master's in forensics speak at a workshop. She was the county coroner.

"I don't get to leave the floor when I need a break from the floor." Take your break.

Because the woman said she did not want to be cut from breastbone to pelvic bone, it makes me wonder what teaching she had. The scars for C-section are actually very small aren't they? And because the woman presented herself to the health care system...

My son is coming home after an accident with head trauma. He has deficits with verbal memory and insight/judgement. I need internet resouces for things I can do at home to help him. I am an ICU nurse and this is a bit out of my league.

My son sustained a basilar fracture, frontal subdural hematoma and a fractured left tib/fib. He is getting along well with crutches and so far, with my other son home from college, my husband and I can both still work and have someone watch him. Tha...

Trendelenberg position puts pressure on the carotid sinus and you get a false improvement. Yes, the numbers 'look' better. http://www.jems.com/jems/e0302k.html

I am attending University of Phoenix online. My associates degree put me as a Junior, with mostly upper level classes. I had a couple classes that I had taken independently at the local community college and UOP accepted them. There are three profice...

We just had a memo that our skilled care unit is closing, due to losing money on medicare. We will use those beds for acute care, and we will need them! The other city hospital is dying. Our hospital hopes to transfer appropriate patients to local nu...

It would be damn hard to do. And you might blow your access as well.

This is a new idea for me! Unless my artline starts to be inaccurate, or positional, we don't do anything special. We try to keep the arm with the artline above the bed covers and zero and calibrate once a shift. They are usually sutured.

I feel fortunate that I work with a very professional group of nurses. We have found that we need each other too much to try pushing each others buttons. I have noticed how the more senior nurses will 'grill' a younger nurse during report. Even me, s...

I have seen the floors do this, I work in ICCU. It seems to me they waste a nurse taking patients,when I feel every nurse should be giving her own meds anyway.

The best "when a patient is in trouble or crashing" nurse is chronically late, if fact, we call her ten minute mary. But the fact is at least once a month she oversleeps and is a good HOUR late. She was employee of the year for 2001. She knows everyo...

Present to your employer in a professional, knowledgable way ,why patient care would improve. How you could prevent complications.

Check with your state board. Rethink,why you want to go into nursing You gotta stop this drinking and driving crap.

I think you were the best thing going for this patient. You didn't fail you were, outnumbered.

SCRUBS:roll

My hospital has the ,if you get sick on a weekend you have to sign up for extra weekend hours, policy. We had to do this because managers couldn't make their chronic 'call-ins' behave. Also ,we have a sick time policy that states you can't use sick t...

I work the 7p to 7a shift and even if I eat supper with my family before I leave for work, I have to eat again! I try to bring leftovers to nuke later, but a lot of nights we order out. We have a special folder in a drawer in the nurses station with...

The nurses get the consent signed with a doctor's order at my hospital. It says right on the consent 'the physician"____" has exlpained the procedure to me.' We fill in the surgeon's name. On that same form is the consent to anesthesia. We get that ...

Yes, they charge $335 per credit hour. That is pricey but online learning fits into my lifestyle very well. I get a bit of tuition assistance from my hospital,we will see how much they think I need after they view my transcripts. I am enrolled in the...

You get out of nursing school what you put into it. Study groups excellent,tutoring a slower student is the best way to get it all into your head. And when you get to the floors..volunteer to see everything! Ask what is going on, how can you help? Ca...

That was a bad comment. Hopefully she was just venting,but it hurt anyway. I don't work with aides in the ICCU,but know they are extremely valuable on the regular floors. My daughter is a CNA. She has told me some bad stories about lazy nurses who tr...