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Anyone attending the NTI 2015 in San Diego?

Anybody has any suggestions for an EBP/EBN/QA/QI topics for GI endoscopy? Any suggestions would be very much appreciated. Thank you.

Thank you for my "care package" when I visited the booth @ NTI - my co-workers loved the goodies and really appreciated them. Some of them may have signed up to become members. Thank you again.

Please see my posts titled " CCRN" exam, from someone who has taken and passed the exam twice with lots of help from LGV. If you follow what she tells you, you will pass. Hope this helps.

Please read my reply posted today. Good luck.

Took the CCRN exam on May 15, 2009 for the second time and passed it again. I first took it in 1992, passed, but made a bad decision of not renewing it. I will never let this one lapse again. Both times, I took Laura Gasparis- Vonfrolio's review cour...

I took the exam in 1992 and passed. I made a bad choice of not renewing it. I only listened to LGV cassette tapes and read the book of pearls that LGV handed out if when attended her review course then. So I had to take it again, last Saturday on Ma...

I am trying to gather evidence/literature that lemon glycerine swabs in PACU are not helping the patients relieve their dry mouths. Any suggestions? Thank you.

Our hospital is trying this new thing for our total knee replacements to expedite turnovers, etc. - the anesthesiologist is doing the spinal anesthesia in the pre-op and we, the pre-op nurses are supposed to monitor the patients after the spinal. The...

One of the nurse managers wants to train a graduate practical nurse to start IV's in our pre-op area. She supposedly is "an excellent phlebotomist and has had 30 hours of didactic class". We do a variety of cases in our hospital excluding brain, open...

We are RNs working in a busy PACU. Since our census has been so high we are routinely working 16 hour shifts with only half an hour lunch break around noon. Lately, we have had no beds so we have been forced to stay overnight working 22 to 24 hours s...

At our institution, as PACU RNs, we often work 14 to 16 hours with only 30 mins lunch break around noon.When we have no beds for our patients, we are required to stay overnight, sometimes 22 or 24 hours straight. Does anyone know what the labor laws ...

In order for me to get "salary raises" other than the general wage increase, I have to fulfill some sort of a clinical ladder or extracurricular activities beyond what the job requirements say. Anyone else in the country doing this? If not, how do yo...

I can sympathize with you. And like most of the postings said, it is done, consider it as a learning experience and move on. Also try saying "No" to working so many hours in a row. And you should not have to give any reason for saying so. If you have...

A friend of mine just called and was told that her hospital are going to make the nurses that have acrylic nails take them off because of a "directive from CDC". Anybody heard of such "directive"? Any thoughts? Any answers will be forwarded to her. T...

Am doing a survey of hospitals in the US regarding their visitation policies in the PACU. Please include location and size of your hospital, average number of cases per day in your OR, size of the PACU and the actual policies regarding visitation in ...

Our hospital combines pre-op holding area, phase 1 recovery and phase 2 recovery under one team leader. We have physician issues. One spine surgeon's office will fax pre-printed orders from his office without checking the meds. We have been instucted...