Tolle_lege replied to TheCommuter's topic in General Nursing
We have vent patients where I work at an LTAC, but we are still 5-1 and the nurses don't touch the vent settings AT ALL! We record numbers and hit 100% oxygen before doing inline suctioning. I don't...
I've given up on the full assessment by 8! I try to get as much info in report as possible (have a great cheat sheet) confirm things as I go in and out. I try to listen to lungs and heart while...
I have recently started working at an LTAC hospital and I am still considered a new grad because I have worked for just under a year. I love the hospital and in fact my preceptor is a great nurse who...
I feel like I had the best "between both worlds" experience with my labor/birth experiences. I have had four children in a small community hospital owned by a large corporation CHW. I had a midwife...
When I was a teenager I babysat for all the nurses my mom worked with. I was very responsible for my age (I see that as I look for babysitters!) I had regular work and got paid well for being a...
When my client came back from the hospital there was Chronic Kidney disease listed on the problem list, and her eGFR was around 40-44 for several days. I did not get a copy of the labs done on the...
Thanks for the input everyone... This client has been in this same facility for several years, which has a 3:1 ratio with caregivers and a nurse at each house. I have only worked here two weeks. When...
Any idea why this would change when there was no apparent change in her day fluid intake level over the last year? I mean she was getting about 1500 ml a day. Just seems strange. I don't think that I...
I have a client that was recently hospitalized from our DDN-ICF facility. The labs showed a critically high sodium level of 169, and some other labs off a little. Serum Creatinine is 1.09, BUN is 22...
I received My ATT letter on November 12th, saying I could test after the 15th. I scheduled it for November 17th, received my results December 5th (and that is with a Thanksgiving holiday in between,...
Thank you for all the tips! I do find it most of the time, but when I can't find it, I really can't find it. I will have to ask when I get to my first job if they have the doppler. I don't remember...
I have had many patients that I simply couldn't find a dorsal pedal pulse on them. I have just graduated and am looking for a job, but this part of assessment bothers me. Is it just me, does anyone...
I felt really competitive in theory class at the beginning of the year. My observation now is that theory is important but nursing is hands on and being a good nurse is about getting in there and...