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simboka

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  1. How can I tell if they're trauma shears?

    Make sure they feel sturdy, I've had shears that looked like a duck, but felt like I could bend
  2. facebook and HIPPA

    The deception here almost bothers me the most. Looking over your shoulder too much increases your risk of walking into a
  3. ED safety... Bit of a rant

    Oh, but to get to the original point... one option unionize. Now I'm not an unquestioning for or against them, but this sounds like a perfect use. How do the other staff
  4. ED safety... Bit of a rant

    Yeah, I noticed that too
  5. manual disimpaction

    Could be worse, could be a manual disimpaction of the other
  6. Coding visitors?

    This actually happened just last week on our floor. Pt just got to floor from ED, husband was found down and blue, called a code, and our nurses made a save (Go team!). But anyway, our policy for...
  7. Holiday Pay Policy

    Our pay is literally the 24hrs, midnight to midnight, of the holiday. Pay benefit is only like 2 or 2.5$/hr, but you get an additional 7.5hrs to tack onto a paycheck (doesn't add towards getting...
  8. Nurse Vs Daughter! Help Me!!!

    Maybe send your grandparents a simple letter telling about who you just met and that you tried to send a letter but didn't hear back from him. And ask if they could forward it to him for you. That way...
  9. The Suicide Tourist

    I went to school in Illinois, and I think I remember one of my instructors saying the state BON declared that nurses must professionally be against assissted suicide...maybe I'm not remembering that...
  10. Beta-blocker administraion error?

    Well what was their vitals after admin? SBP 190, hr 150, sure sounds like they needed them, so where's this doubt coming
  11. Making Acetylcysteine bearable?

    Have you tried juice in the nebulizer? j/k While I've not ever done nebs (RT does them at my facility), I'm just trying to think through what I've done to mask smells in the past, the best I can think...
  12. Caught a big med error!

    That's the point of bedside
  13. Embarrassing/Clumsy Moments!

    During report and when I'm just talking to my patients, I'll stand in the door way with the door half-open, and I regularly turn and hit the side of the
  14. Light reading on workplace violence

    "Is a knuckle sandwhich within their diet orders?" Most of our incidents (inpatient gen med/tele/onc) are from confused pts being combative. either hitting, sometimes kicking, or pinching/scratching....
  15. inappropriate sinus tach

    Cardiology consult, different Beta blockers, starting a calcium channel blocker, looking into what "cardiac history" the family has, ruling out other reasons why they'd be tachy is where I would...
  16. Knowledge or Information Hoarding

    Never if pt safety is a concern! Will I let them take a min to figure out why the pump's still beeping at them when I can see the clamped line? Yeah, but if they don't see it soon, I'll point it out....
  17. Shift to shift dynamics, gotta love 'em!

    That's often the debate for me, pt's sleep vs. getting all my (paper) work done. That leaves stuffing everything in for the few hours beginning and ending the shift to try and let my pts sleep. (still...
  18. Quick question about ivs and young children....

    The bevel-down technique This guy's a good writer and I enjoy his blog (A Day In The Life of An Ambulance Driver) lots of good stories, and does throw some good technical posts and links to his other...
  19. Why hospitals continue use incentive spirometry

    *bumped* Can you
  20. "If you insist that you are not to be woken up over night for silly things like vitals, labs, or meds, don't expect me to respond to your call light over night." Are you sure that wasn't a seizure?...
  21. Simple, but at least with me it seemed to take a little longer for all the paperwork to go through. If you'd ask me two years ago, I could've told you all the steps, but more or less, whereever all...
  22. Is it safe to do CPR outside of work????

    I would do it, as long as the scene was safe of course I would definately pose the response to your instructor about if her child were laying in the street. My question is this: was she telling that...
  23. First Aid Question

    I'm curious what his rationale for keeping the shoe on would be: "because that's what you're supposed to do?" (aka: uneducated concerning injury/illness assessment and care) vs "if it's not too bad,...
  24. Things you only learn on the floor...

    Hospitals are not sparkling clean places of rest! (definately don't seem like it when an honest 1/3 of your floor's pt are on isolation for