bookscrapper

bookscrapper has 1 years experience.

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1. I'll be serving whine at my pity party

   bookscrapper replied to jadedjane's topic in General Nursing

   You may have had errors in your resume, but I work daily with an electronic medical record program that has spelling and grammatical errors all over the place. It is so frustrating, not to mention...

2. Happy Nurses Week Cards...

   bookscrapper replied to Joe V's topic in Nursing Humor

   I got a card from my dad saying how proud he is of me. And I got put on call last night and wasn't called in...WooHoo! Went to the brunch at work this morning (was worse than your typical hotel...

3. Flushing PICC lines

   bookscrapper replied to jaltwerger's topic in General Nursing

   Our policy is to flush each lumen of a PICC line with 10cc normal saline followed by 200 units heparin every twelve hours. Normal saline is used for routine flushes before/after fluid/medicine...

4. Starting New Job in Med/Surg

   bookscrapper posted a topic in Medical-Surgical

   I just accepted an offer for a night shift position on a Med/Surg/Onco floor in Southern New Mexico. I was never a fan of med/surg during nursing school so I'm a little nervous/anxious. I know it will...

5. Living in Las Cruces, Work in El Paso?

   bookscrapper posted a topic in Texas Nursing

   My husband and I are moving to Las Cruces this spring and I am researching nursing positions. Since El Paso is not too far, I thought I would look there as well. My areas of interest are NICU and...

6. Relocating to Las Cruces

   bookscrapper posted a topic in General Nursing

   Hi! My husband and I are planning to relocate to Las Cruces in the next six months and I was looking for some current information about nursing in the Las Cruces area. I am interested in NICU...

7. Fulfilling CEU Requirement

   bookscrapper replied to Havin' A Party!'s topic in Pennsylvania Nursing

   I completed my CEUs here: http://ceuprofessoronline.com/courselist.php It involved reading several articles and taking quizzes. It

8. continuing education points in IL

   bookscrapper replied to EzraRn's topic in Illinois Nursing

   (225 ILCS 65/60‑40) (Section scheduled to be repealed on January 1, 2018) Sec. 60‑40. Continuing education for RN licensees. The Department may adopt rules of continuing education for...

9. Student Nurse with a Question about Antepartum....

   bookscrapper replied to OBGYN*RN's topic in Ob/Gyn

   I've been working on a high risk antepartum unit for the last six months. A majority of our patients are pre-eclamptic, pre-term labor, premature rupture of membranes (PROM), bleeding, hyperemesis,...

10. Gravida question

    bookscrapper replied to lmt2000's topic in Ob/Gyn

    that's "short hand" for 2...some md's use that symbol on

11. Electronic medical records?

    bookscrapper replied to TRINI_RN's topic in Ob/Gyn

    For 2 of my 4 semester is nursing school we did all electronic charting. It was great. At my current job we're about 50% with the rest to come here "shortly." I really liked the EMR because you...

12. Please anyone SBAR/cheat sheet

    bookscrapper replied to angelwings33's topic in Ob/Gyn

    I just started on an antepartum/postpartum unit and have created my own sheet. Having just graduated last May, I was used to using my own sheet (and I'm a very organized person so I like everything...

13. L&D vs postpartum vs newborn nursery

    bookscrapper replied to Purple_Scrubs's topic in Ob/Gyn

    It often depends on the hospitals. The smaller ones tend to cross train everyone for all areas: antepartum, L&D, postpartum, and nursery. I work at a large hospital (~10000 deliveries/year) and...

14. Scrub Stores in Pittsburgh

    bookscrapper posted a topic in Pennsylvania Nursing

    I recently got a job at Magee and need to get some white scrubs. Can anyone tell me where there are scrub stores in the area? I know of Scrub Shack at Pittsburgh Mills but that's it.

15. question, hope this is okay.

    bookscrapper replied to caraway's topic in Ob/Gyn

    I would definitely say that that experience is not the norm. Personally, I would not go back to that physician, nor recommend him to anyone I knew. You could probably file a complaint but I'm not...