EricTAMUCC-BSN

EricTAMUCC-BSN BSN, RN

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  1. Strength & Conditioning for Healthcare Providers

    EricTAMUCC-BSN replied to Aunt Minnie's topic in General Nursing

    yea, its called the dead lift. sorry i couldn't resist.

  2. vancomycin iv over 1 hour

    EricTAMUCC-BSN replied to endlesssummer1's topic in Medical-Surgical

    with that much volume an hour to an hour and a half is either here nor there. I used to give a gm of vanco in 100ccs. Now if they have that pale erythmototic look or have multiple allergies you might...

  3. Uk, Tpa

    EricTAMUCC-BSN replied to EricTAMUCC-BSN's topic in MICU, SICU

    I was asking about clotted

  4. Tips for day sleepers on darkening windows.

    EricTAMUCC-BSN replied to 2003rn's topic in General Nursing

    Black poster

  5. Steroids for pneumonia?

    EricTAMUCC-BSN replied to longforseaair's topic in General Nursing

    i am referring to hydrocortisone, not prednisone. Put a triple antibiotic on one cut and hydrocortisone on another. Tell me which heals

  6. Tips for IV starts

    EricTAMUCC-BSN replied to asilmk's topic in First Year After Licensure

    In addition to Daytonite's response: I particularly like Post #50 by teeituptom on this thread. It is "Vision the Vein, Be the needle" After 30 years of starting IV's I gotta say that this is so very,...

  7. New BLS and ACLS Guidelines--How do you feel about the changes?

    EricTAMUCC-BSN replied to bobnurse's topic in General Nursing

    Bob, The new guidelines make sense although the number of compressions to breaths was bewildering, but I have become accepting. I was under the assumption that hyperventilation was the way to go with...

  8. Tamu-cc

    EricTAMUCC-BSN replied to RNaggie's topic in Texas Nursing

    A critical care class if

  9. AIDS debate - Most Controversial Story You've Never Heard

    EricTAMUCC-BSN replied to JasmineTea's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Rasnick: It's the same story, even worse. Fifty percent of Africans have no sewage systems. Their drinking water mixes with animal and human waste. They have constant TB and malaria infections, the...

  10. AIDS debate - Most Controversial Story You've Never Heard

    EricTAMUCC-BSN replied to JasmineTea's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Excellent

  11. student question-clamping caths

    EricTAMUCC-BSN replied to sweetieann's topic in General Nursing

    4 hours, I recently applied neomycin around the eurethera opening of a patient. Also our hospital has a foley regimen of 500 mg Vitamin C and 8 oz of cranberry juice around the clock for patients...

  12. Steroids for pneumonia?

    EricTAMUCC-BSN replied to longforseaair's topic in General Nursing

    As antibiotics continue to become less effective I can only see more advantages from this group of medications. Have you ever compared the effects of steroids and antibiotics on a

  13. PAradoxical Reaction to Zxprexa Zydis?

    EricTAMUCC-BSN replied to Meerkat's topic in Psychiatric

    so they decided to fight the snake instead of riding

  14. Why are pts with low BPs still on meds that could lower their BPs even more?!

    EricTAMUCC-BSN replied to christvs's topic in Cardiac

    (newspaper test: if they can be aroused enough that I think they could read a newspaper.) Unfortunantley most of my patients can't do this from the time I see

  15. Best BSN school Houston/Corpus Christi TX area?

    EricTAMUCC-BSN replied to Sandy Cheeks's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    Get out of the rat race, go to TAMUCC, they are older nurse

  16. New equipment...No training...

    EricTAMUCC-BSN replied to HappyJaxRN's topic in General Nursing

    I heart flexiseal!

  17. Differences in Bilateral BP's

    EricTAMUCC-BSN replied to Rhonda V's topic in General Nursing

    good question, It is pretty normal to find alot of patients with a lower pressure in one arm than the other in an acute care setting, particularly patients with mild heart failure (majority of...

  18. best nursing program in TX?

    EricTAMUCC-BSN replied to RNaggie's topic in Texas Nursing

    TAMUCC is the

  19. Painful arterial wound

    EricTAMUCC-BSN replied to Traveler's topic in Wound, Ostomy, Continence

    In addition to WebBlarsk's suggestion you might try Lidocaine jelly to spread on the wound and/or Hydrocortisone

  20. Nurses and nursing student, how do you talk to your PCP?

    EricTAMUCC-BSN replied to westcoastgirl's topic in General Nursing

    At first I was upfront with my practitioner, but now I like to keep that part of me cut off. They are the practitioner and I am the patient. They have a "real" world view of me, they see things that...

  21. I'm a new MICU RN and not liking it!

    EricTAMUCC-BSN replied to Kitty-MayRN's topic in MICU, SICU

    The other factor in this is I am going through mental depression Don't wait, seek professional help for this immediatley! Whether it be a PHD, NP, or MD you need to see a specialist on your next day...

  22. Nursing home keeps spirits up with own pub

    EricTAMUCC-BSN posted a topic in Geriatric, LTC

    a nursing home in ireland has hit on a cheering way to keep up the spirits of its elderly patients -- by providing its own pub... "we would say the whole social aspect of life does extend the years --...

  23. Sort of an open-ended poll for an assignment...

    EricTAMUCC-BSN replied to mitchsmom's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    I also found studies that said that patients' ranked technological skills higher than traditional "caring" type skills, so that is another reason it should be viewed as a means of caring. Excellent...

  24. My instructor said I need to have more confidence in myself. I am trying but.....

    EricTAMUCC-BSN replied to JGLPN2BE's topic in General Students

    Instructors do not understand where you are in your life, ask them some questions that they won't know the answer for, ie research something like how much glucose is in a liter of blood, than ask them...

  25. Sort of an open-ended poll for an assignment...

    EricTAMUCC-BSN replied to mitchsmom's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    You turn it into necessity, where would we be without the