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    Anyone NOT use prefilled flushes?

    truern replied to Mommy TeleRN's topic in General Nursing

    Roy, there's a huge sign in our pyxis room that the prefilled flushes are not to be used for diluting meds. WHY, I don't know. Sterile NS should be sterile NS whatever the
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    Student Fundraising

    truern replied to ILoveMyBeanie's topic in LPN, LVN Students

    We'd have several students make crock pots of chili...others would bring crackers, sour cream, cheese, bowls, spoons, etc. We'd sell it at lunch time in the student lounge. It was always a huge...
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    Anyone NOT use prefilled flushes?

    truern replied to Mommy TeleRN's topic in General Nursing

    We use the 3ml and 5ml prefilled NS flushes and they're stored in one of the supply bins. Our heparin flushes are in the pyxis and would be difficult to confuse with the NS with all the yellow...
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    just a little vent

    truern replied to MIA-RN1's topic in First Year After Licensure

    But you did it!! Congratulations!! And you'll do it again..and again..and you'll get better each time.
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    It's finally MY turn to say...

    truern replied to nurse4theplanet's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    :monkeydance: :monkeydance:
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    Charting do's and don'ts

    truern replied to willdgate's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Must be a day shift thingie Our noc shift follows the care plan and addresses each of the pxs identified in their first note...thereafter they only chart by exception or occurances. Us day people...
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    Charting do's and don'ts

    truern replied to willdgate's topic in First Year After Licensure

    My first nursing note on a patient for the day usually goes something like this: 0730 POD #2. Received pt resting quietly in bed s/complaint. A&OX3. VSS. NSR per monitor. 02 at 2L via NC. O2...
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    Has this happened to anyone before??

    truern replied to Purdue_Nurse's topic in General Nursing

    Purdue Nurse, I recently missed two weeks of work with the same problem. Even with Antivert the only time the entire room didn't spin was when my head was laying still against something. The second...
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    Should I wear support hose?

    truern replied to TigerGalLE's topic in Scrubs, Uniforms, Gear

    I wear the white knee highs with butterflies made by, I think, NurseMates. I tried wearing regular socks one day and my legs were killing me by the end of the
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    transfusion ??'s and other iv ??'s

    truern replied to dayshiftnurse's topic in Medical-Surgical

    Dayshiftnurse, I'm on a telemetry floor, and of course our policy may differ from some, but we always make heparin/cardizem/etc our primary infusion with maintenance fluids running secondary. Please...
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    All in charge of hiring please look here!!

    truern replied to AnnieOaklyRN's topic in General Nursing

    We were told specifically to not include clinical experience...as suggested above its assumed you indeed had clinical experience during nursing school. However, if there was a specific incidence, for...
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    Pulmonary embolism question

    truern replied to Lucyinthesky's topic in General Students

    Left side down-trendelenberg position might trap the embolus in the right ventricle and prevent migration to the lung. SUSPECTED AIR EMBOLISM Turn patient left side down, trendelenberg position (head...
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    Lazy Bowel Syndrome?

    truern replied to ShannonR's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    Shannon, do a search for atonic colon....I think you'll find the info you need
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    What do I tell her?

    truern replied to HisHands's topic in General Nursing

    How did your friend know the preceptor left work early if she didn't even come back after lunch?? I think the telling thing here is that your friend was "fed up" even before the
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    What do I tell her?

    truern replied to HisHands's topic in General Nursing

    What responsibility should the orientator hold?? Your friend accepted the admission, had the wherewithall to tell the orientator that she was going to lunch, yet didn't mention the fact the she...
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    Preoperative Warming: Is this routine?

    truern replied to jsully13's topic in PACU

    Just sticking my nose in to say that as a tummy tuck post-op patient the SHIVERING from being frozen in PACU made the pain so much worse!! Nothing ever felt as good as that warm air rushing over my...
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    Do you count resps every time you do vitals?

    truern replied to GardenDove's topic in General Nursing

    I don't routinely take vitals...I do, however, manually check "off" BPs. When I have taken full sets of vitals, though, I counted respirations. There used to be a tech at work that always fudged the...
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    How to avoid hypoglycemia during 12 hour shifts?

    truern replied to Hoozdo's topic in Diabetes, Endocrine Nursing

    I take metformin and so far I haven't had any real problems with my BG during my 12-hour shifts. However, I have a little breakfast, then I try to have a little something around 1030, and then have...
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    Telemetry monitoring

    truern replied to Bwick's topic in Cardiac

    On my unit, we're initialing that we've been informed of the change indicated on the strip...not that we agree/disagree with the monitor tech's interpretation. It's then up to us to inform the MD of...
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    free CEU's

    truern replied to chenoaspirit's topic in General Nursing

    Thanks for the link, but where did you find the
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    Can students be helpful, or are they just in the way?

    truern replied to Megsd's topic in General Nursing

    Please don't take it personally. I'm a new grad myself, and recently I was asked if I'd mind having a student shadow me for the day. On any other day the answer would have been "Of course, I'd love...
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    What IV meds cannot be given to Cardiac Patients

    truern replied to mhershey's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

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    What is your facility doing to provide lodging in dangerous conditions?

    truern replied to gitterbug's topic in General Nursing

    Last time we were expecting inclement weather my nurse mgr told us all to "Make sure you leave early so you get to work on time!". I'm pretty sure he didn't mean it to sound so
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    For Those Who Have Completed the NCLEX...

    truern replied to Cherybaby's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    I had 75 questions and a whopping ZERO of them was
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    PCA's in PACU

    truern replied to cthorn518's topic in PACU

    Had an admit from PACU today s/p partial gastrectomy....she arrived with a PCA. So, yeah