Soulcatcher

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1. death in numbers

   Soulcatcher replied to GAstudent's topic in General Nursing

   The chain of three seems to hold merit in this old VA hospital. For example, we had a death in ICU this week and the next day our Med/Surg unit had two within 35 minutes of one another. There's no cause/effect relationship, of course. I think it'...

2. Do you worry about getting ill??

   Soulcatcher replied to imupallnite's topic in General Nursing

   The Nurses at my hospital joke about getting sick from the carpet in our Nurse's station (which from looking at it was put down right after WWII), or from the ventilation system (old). We all sniffle quite a bit, and some come up with GI complaint...

3. What Freaks You Out?

   Soulcatcher replied to JennieBSN's topic in General Nursing

   Had quite a few laughs and "Yep, that's nasty!" reading this thread! I used to have a hard time controlling my own reflex to vomit when I heard or saw someone retching; I got over it during Nursing School. Boy, and putting down an NG tube was enough...

4. Survey: Does your facility use a paper or computer based charting for patient record

   Soulcatcher replied to Brian's topic in General Nursing

   We've been using a version of computerized record keeping (notes and orders) since November '98, if I recall correctly. We'd always done odd little tasks in the computer - order and view lab results, request diets, etc, but then the Computerized Part...

5. nurse-to-patient ratio

   Soulcatcher replied to quickcarequeen's topic in General Nursing

   i work in a va hospital's icu, in a rather rural part of the us. our rn-patient ratio is 2:1, although at times it has been 3:1; we've had to reduce the number of patients we admit because of staffing shortages. on our med/surg/telemtry and pulmonar...