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Has anyone had any experience with the bd nexiva catheters? They have the extension tube attatched. It seems like a novel idea but has anyone had any problems with them?

We were talking about these today, I looked it up online they seemed pretty cool, has anyone used these? Can they support more than just one channel?

I have actually worked in all three systems that you spoke about. I have not worked at kaiser for a long time, but I was not all that impressed, maybe its changed, the doctors at that time did not respect us and we were rather marginalized. Legacy em...

I have such bad allergies in the spring and summer, I will come into work with my eyes swollen up and i'll have to spend the first 20 minutes with a warm washcloth over my eyes. Im in portland but I think eugene is going to be more or less the same.

Hm, I know all of the nurses on my unit have alot of experience, in fact the nursing population here is more or less more experienced except for med/surg which hire more new nurses. The other portland hospital I worked for also didn't have any new nu...

NE eh?? nothing against them although I think youll find some better choices in SW. try forrent.com

haha tuality kind of has a bad rep, there sort of a small little hospital waay out there in hillsboro, I would not want to work there. St v's now your talking, I would consider it one of the better hospitals in the area, there a lot of hype about OHS...

pay here is more or less commensurate with experience, there is also (at least at my facility) a preference for BSN's, I only only one ASN here. In addition I would say the job market in portland is becoming more competitive for nurses, I think OHSU ...

I think oregon gets a reputation for being a bunch of hicks, its quite distressing, I've lived here my entire life and have never even met anyone resembling that stereotype. As far as racism goes, there are several african american nurses here and I ...

I just found this: http://www.ashp.org/Import/PRACTICEANDPOLICY/PracticeResourceCenters/DrugShortages/GettingStarted/ResolvedShortages/Bulletin.aspx?id=473

Okay so my hospital has been migrating towards taking medications out of the pyxis units more and more for about a year. It started off they took out the controlled drugs, than the expensive one,s then some other ones. It has come to the point where ...

Well I spoke with the nurse administrator today, he didn't know and thought it was ridiculous too and he said he would speak with the pharmacy who are responsible with filling it. Hopefully I will get my darn saline flushes back!

We don't have med rooms here.. what do you use them for?

definitely a time killer. We can draw up our own from the patients IV bag if they have one, we do still have syringes. But why should I have to, I really don't understand the logic, I understood when the took the narcotics off the floor, to prevent d...

I actually somewhat understand the underlying logic. They are trying to integrate the pharmD into the whole process, we input the orders into the computer, they go down to pharmacy, pharmacy overlooks the order, sometimes theyll call us up if theres ...

How many of you mix lidocaine with your phenegran for IM injections? I had a physician ask me to do that today....I have never done that before. I didn't have a chance to call the pharmacy, and the davis guide didn't say anything about it being incom...

so it has been a long time (like 10 years) since I have used an anesthesia bag, I didn't think we even stocked them for adults (usually a peds thing). How are these set up, how do they come. We have these "modified jackson rees circuits" that I guess...

These are the ones I am pretty sure we carry or at least it looks like the same setup http://www.cardinalhealth.com/us/en/distributedproducts/ASP/3772-WSN.asp?cat=med_surg eh.... but these are more like the ones that I seem to remember using http://...

No I am not a CRNA, it sure would be helpful if I was. Im working in a new (for me) CCU and they just seem to love the anesthesia bags, there everywhere, with every BVM there's an anesthesia bag. They are the three liter types for adults, but I haven...

dealing with vented patients alot, in my experience the policy has always been to remove the vent and bag them. yes it takes another pair of hands, yes its inconvenient, but it removes the possibility of vent error. just because you have chest rise, ...

nobody? eek, maybe I need to reconsider my choices.

I am looking for some help in choosing the replacement patient monitor for our surgery center. Right now now we have narrowed it down to the GE dash 3000 and the propaq cs monitor. They both have a good mix of portability and functionality. Does anyb...

IM injections being phased out? eek thats scary. It reminds me of an incident a few months ago when my mother was in the hospital (not mine), the nurse came in to give promethazine. I expected her to do it IM, but she diluted it and did it IV, I near...

I probably would have redrawn it and made sure to document it. I suppose if you mixed it adequately it shouldn't be a problem. Also what did you do with the remaining 5? Make sure you document that too. Here, the orders are closely checked against th...