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  1. Going from a nurse to a doctor?

    EastCoast replied to skybirdrising's topic in General Nursing

    To my knowledge there are no studies. I would examine your reasons for wanting to go into medicine. I would also note that you are 33 and it seems by your post that you haven't started working as a...

  2. foley catheter insertion harm?

    EastCoast replied to rileygrl11's topic in General Nursing

    Gee, i responded to the other post too about foleys... anyway...IMO and logically it would seem that if an institution has demonstrated that a person is trained and competent to perform a procedure...

  3. foley catheter placement question

    EastCoast replied to rileygrl11's topic in Dialysis, Renal, Urology

    i'd go with the urologist. traumatic foley. i am often called for new onset hematuria/clot retention. what i find is that the foley is not inserted all the way. the balloon is inflated somewhere...

  4. Help in writing Nursing Care Plan.

    EastCoast replied to Rosered48's topic in General Nursing

    This is not a correct assumption. Because a patient is recieving TPN it does not assure that caloric needs are met. In fact if a patient becomes septic or develops a wound it tends to require a...

  5. master's needed? Recommended?

    EastCoast replied to COLOGIRL's topic in Flight, Surface Transport

    Also, as an FYI.... Creighton University in Omaha Nebraska (IS this where this school is? I think so). Anyway, they offer a course RN to EMT and RN to paramedic. The course is Cheap cheap....

  6. related to another post I made on reporting a MD

    EastCoast replied to angelbear's topic in General Nursing

    I forgot to add in that didn't the patient have other symptoms over a period of time that would have alerted others that the patient was ill? O2 sats in the low 80's are not just a benign 'throw them...

  7. related to another post I made on reporting a MD

    EastCoast replied to angelbear's topic in General Nursing

    I am not sure where you work but why does the Nurse Manager have the ability to give a physician's order for oxygen? Clearly this seems to be an example of a patient recieving poor care b/c the MD...

  8. Dealing with Citibank

    EastCoast replied to Dave ARNP's topic in Nursing Humor

    Ha ha. my mom got a hospital bill for several months in a row for one penny. By the way...I hate citibank and i'm not surprised this happened. You are essentially talking to almost dead people when...

  9. nurses as the etcetera profession

    EastCoast replied to canoehead's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    For a thousand years I have wondered why the supervisor at nite always had to be a "NURSING supervisior". What the hell happened to the other department sups. after 3pm. It amazed me especially when...

  10. lpn-rn...same difference

    EastCoast replied to reyna's topic in General Nursing

    The old addage:: treat others as you would want to be treated? I think you commander had the right idea. THis topic is such a deadbeat one yet guilty as the others it is sometimes too enticing to...

  11. lpn-rn...same difference

    EastCoast replied to reyna's topic in General Nursing

    I do tend to agree with blue sky on this ...give the nursing student some classes on medical ethics, diversity in healthcare, and an additional semester of patho and bypass the concepts in research...

  12. Can you believe this???

    EastCoast replied to MelRN13's topic in General Nursing

    I don't think you can be 'mandated' to come in. YOu are employed a certain number of hours and you work those. That is the employment agreement. If there is a state of emergency and that is disclosed...

  13. master's needed? Recommended?

    EastCoast replied to COLOGIRL's topic in Flight, Surface Transport

    If i were you i would focus on getting an EMT-c or paramedic if you really want to get into flight nursing. This is a prerequisite in the east for many flight nurses. It might be different in the...

  14. What Would YOU Like??

    EastCoast replied to NurseStudentFall01's topic in General Nursing

    I couldn't agree more. Put your thoughts in writing to her and her immediate supervisor. It is wonderful when doing an evaluation on an employee to have this kind of stuff to note in a yearly...

  15. Nurses are not Doctors

    EastCoast replied to Plato's topic in General Nursing

    I agree with lisa and i think you are probably a

  16. Nurses are not Doctors

    EastCoast replied to Plato's topic in General Nursing

    LisaRN2B Off topic but want to say thanks. This is a wonderful quote. It is posted in our callroom above the phone. Someone posted it there and i take it as a gentle reminder as i am answer pages to...

  17. Nurses are not Doctors

    EastCoast replied to Plato's topic in General Nursing

    Please don't assume that you know squat about why an NP is an NP. You must have went into nursing because you failed at being a nurses aide right? In my state no matter what you think of me I still...

  18. Nurses marrying doctors

    EastCoast replied to Cqc_Cqb's topic in General Nursing

    I have seen a higher incidence of dietary people ending up married to docs than nurses. I am not sure why this is so...I wish someone would collect data on it to prove me right. Once i hired 2 young...

  19. Vent!

    EastCoast replied to Tweety's topic in General Nursing

    I agreed with that whole rant ! However, this particular issue of monopolizing the CNA is so annoying. It reminds me of a nurse (who i actually did adore) who when a nurses aide came to our unit...

  20. Vent!

    EastCoast replied to Tweety's topic in General Nursing

    Intake and Output usually said quite fast in a sentence: "How's their

  21. Drips and such

    EastCoast replied to sharann's topic in General Nursing

    The two infiltrates i have seen were different. One had a marked 'cord', similar to a KCL infiltrate. It was beefy looking. The other was benign but conincidentally the patients hand was cool and...

  22. smoking students

    EastCoast replied to vickynurse's topic in Nursing Educators, Faculty

    i don't agree that you shouldn't care. as someone mentioned what about the person who is having chemo and is nauseated or the patient who smokes who is trying hard to give it up? it sets a terrible...

  23. etomidate

    EastCoast replied to TinyNurse's topic in Emergency

    HI Kevin, You should be in my facility when i have a difficult airway. Getting anesthesia (can't speak for the CRNA only the Anesthesiologist) to respond without a huge song and dance is near...

  24. Drips and such

    EastCoast replied to sharann's topic in General Nursing

    We use periphreal sites for dopamine and levophed in an emergency and then place a central line. Just called the other nite to give regitine for a levophed infiltrate. It looked ugly but the patient...

  25. Drips and such

    EastCoast replied to sharann's topic in General Nursing

    DId he order 250cc or albumin or was it hespan?? are you sure it wasn't 25 gm. of albumin?? 250cc seem like an awful lot of albumin. If in fact it was just a small volume of albumin i would interupt...