HappyBunnyNurse

At the NICU where I work we are required to do a 3 minute scrub up to the elbows using a brush at the beginning of our shift. Between babies or before touching a "clean" area we can do a 20 second wash up to the elbows or use hand sanitizer to the el...

I am considering an online NNP through either University of South Alabama or University of Alabama at Birmingham. I have read both schools web sites. I'd like to get an idea of how these two compare as far as ease of admission, how well organized, ...

I tried to stay Sunday morning but was told no. I literally could not afford a hotel. So I drove home through sleet and ice (which turned my normal one hour thirty minute commute into two hours and fifteen minutes.) After four hours sleep (I had wo...

Sadly, these holier-than-thou attitudes are all too common on this board and in nursing in general. Vent about a bad assignment....they've had much worse. Management problems......their bosses are meaner. Hard teacher or class.....you should have ...

probably the same people who would take care the patients while you are out recovering from injuries sustained in an accident trying to get to work. or maybe the people who would cover while your coworkers attend your funeral. there is a difference i...

The nursing program for Ole Miss isn't on the oxford campus. It is in Jackson at UMC. I think the reason it is on hold is because they on longer offer RN to BSN. Now it is only RN to MSN.

I'd love to learn Spanish. However, I can't afford the Rosetta stone system or classes. It would be great if my facility would pay for it. But I don't see THAT happening. I only have so much money to spend on my professional development (you know ...

My grandmother used to give her "helpers" those little butter toffee candies. She just loved giving them a little something. When you've spent your whole life nurturing others it's hard to stop. Even it you just offer a little something.

The college experience (with dorms and stuff) only comes once in a lifetime. You've got your whole life to work. Lol. That said, depending on your individual situation, that LPN will probably come in really handy. You could work part-time while in ...

At my hospital if a parent refuses either vit k or eye ointment a doctor is called to the bedside to discuss risks and benefits. Then the Dr writes up a note (sort of like a consent note) detailing the conversation. It is not a nursing responsibilit...

Well you'll fit right in when you get a job. A lot of nurse are VERY superstitious. LOl.

Actually things weren't all that great "back in the day" of all home births, no vaccines or vit k, and etc. All you have to do to understand is go to an old cemetery and count the little tombstones. I guess going by this statistic 1 in 10,000 babies...

Stop and Drop -- mother shows up (usually with no prenatal care) in VERY advanced labor. Needs to go see Jesus ---- baby has no hope; should be let to pass peacefully DFO --- done FLOPPED out; baby has suddenly become limp and unresponsive Splash ...

When I left teaching, I did an accelerated second degree program which was shorter and cheaper. But I don't know if I would recommend nursing as a "back up." A nursing school education is expensive (books cost more than average textbooks, you have t...

Geez............... you are gonna be so unhappy when you have lung cancer/COPD and obese nurses are rushing in to turn you and give your breathing treatments......... Actually you'll probably appreciate them as their smoking coworkers will be out o...

Well, of course I would. That's the only reason I went to nursing school. :hdvwl:

You put the tegaderm on when you place the bag. It goes over the edge of the wafer and on to the skin. When the bag starts to leak you usually see the stool leaking around the wafer under the tegaderm. Never put the tegaderm under the wafer. And ne...

I always go all around the edge of the wafer and onto the tummy with tegaderm (a lot of tegaderm). Most of the tummy may get covered sometimes depending on how small the baby is. It's ok though because you can still see the leaks because the tegade...

I DO feel sorry for family members who need to smoke. I mean if your mama is in the last stages of dying or your kid is in PICU or your husband just had a heart attack it is NOT the time to quit your pack a day habit. And a thirty minute walk to get...

You may have gotten asked twice in a row because others are turning it down.

When she goes go to have her baby she'll get a drug screen. If she tests positive then the baby will get a urine and meconium screen. If the baby is positive CPS will be notified. (Not that they'll do anything.) If she has an accident on the way to...

I've never seen this but I remember in nursing school learning that bleeding from an IV site is a sign of DIC. I mean like blood just running from around an intact IV.

I think it would depend on your NP speciality. For example if you were a NNP working on an adult unit or an adult nurse practitioner working in a NICU you would surely only be held to an RN's standard as those patients would be outside your practitio...

Even if your organization hasn't changed manufacturers, the manufacturer may have changed their product.

ECMO is the only thing that has to be 1:1 at my unit. Well that actually means 2:1. Pump nurse + baby nurse. They take it to the extreme though........ we had a baby beside the ECMO baby code (from room air to code and to DEAD in under an hour) on...