DustinRN

My hospital is in the process of obtaining magnet status and they have already begun demoting LPN's to glorified CNA positions. The word is they're fixing to stop hiring associate degree RN's and hire only BSN RN's.

This question is from the ACLS provider manual. In case you don't have the manual I will write the question out. You have to have the ECC guidelines 2000 manual to get the answers to these questions and I don't have that manual. I'm going over cas...

he was diagnosed with colon cancer today. If you will say a prayer for me too. I think I'm hurting just as much as he is

Hmmm...not sure, the vet techs are the nurses of the animal world.

As the Duragesic patch.

There is no way in god's green earth that I could ever work 60hrs week! Muche less 5 12hr shifts in one week! :stone

You were making $35/hr at your previous job as an RN,--being a new nurse? Salary.com is dead on the money when it comes to my area. I make +-$50 of what they listed as a fairly new nurse. I'm due for my 1st year raise, however.

Is he on dialysis?

While I feel empathetic toward this woman's loss, I hope she doesn't get paid jack. Take away all the legal mumbo jumbo and the husband was simply holding his wife still. In nursing school we were always taught to include dad in the whole birthing ...

My thoughts and prayers go out to all London citizens.

Toradol isn't recommended for more than five straight days due to its risk for major side effects. Its dangerous effects are directly proportional to the dosage and length of treatment.

I've never used this technique, but I'm sure there are some advantages to understanding it.

Thanks guys/gals!

I've done 7 cases so far and I'm just trying to figure out how people can remember all these algorithms for each individual case. A lot of things are starting to run together. Do most of you remember the algorithms by heart or do you just have a ge...

I've never had a patient with TVP or TCP. Are there no spikes on the ECG to show you when the pacemaker is firing? I've never had a patient with one so I'm just wondering.

Does anyone know of a good site to review chest tubes. Unfortunately, I was out the day we watched a video about chest tubes (Pleuravac systems) I want to better understand how they work, but I can't find any site that helps me out with them.

I have just put a black edition master cardiology stethoscope on ebay if any of you are interested. The perfect stethoscope to start off your days as an RN! Item number: 5571986077

I won the stethoscope as a prize at work. We bought raffling (sp?) tickets for numerous prizes at work, and I happened to win the black edition master cardiology. I already have a model 4000 electronic stethoscope from littmann. Thanks for the que...

I had a patient on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday night. This patient has had an aneuresym clipped from an infratentorial bleed. This patient is severely confused and wants to get out of bed. The pt pulled it's IV on Saturday night and pulled out hi...

While I've never seen a reaction to protonix; I would be cautious with the next does if there is one. Does your insurance company cover Nexium. If so then give that a try. Same mechanism of action.

My dad was friends with David aka "Jr". He was the paramedic on the flight. It's a sad day for Regional hospital. I will keep them all in my prayers. The ceremony at the helipad was quite emotional as you can imagine. They had four medical helic...

I have a question on pt's taking Xigris. The drug rep came today and explained to use the benefit of using Xigris for septic shock or sepsis instead of Heparin. It has shown to decrease the mortality of the patient by 30%. Okay, here's my questio...

Well that irritates me that my med-surg book doesn't mention anything about impaired clot breakdown. That would be interesting information to know. Thanks, Susan

Try this article from the Littmann website. Short vs Long Tubing Quite often health care workers raise questions regarding tubing length based on early publications claiming shorter tubing length provides better acoustic response. Some instructors...

Thanks for all the encouragement! I'm sure I will have plenty of questions once nursing orientation starts.