SolaireSolstice BSN, RN

Do you have your CPR certification? That's BLS, basic life support. ACLS is advanced. It is required in my hospital for ICU, ER, OR, L&D, and I believe telemetry. There are a ton of certifications available for nurses and which ones you "need" ar...

The bariatric beds we have can be "broken down" to fit through the doorways. They simply expand along each side. Was this an issue with the bed not being able to fit through the doorway, in which it was an issue of lack of equipment teaching? Or did ...

Yes, you can stop a blood transfusion. As long as you get the transfusion into the pt within the 4 hr period, then it's fine. While I *have* kinked the line above the port and flushed, put in med, flushed again, I think it's safer to stop the transfu...

I don't see anything that says you have to change it within ten days of the name change. I see that it will take THEM ten days upon receipt of the name change information. It would be ridiculous to require notification within ten days of a name chang...

We are on electronic mars. If there isn't a computer in the pts room, to bring the mar in you have to wheel in the cart. I usually park it in the doorway to the room to minimize "exposure" then wipe it down afterward. The third "check" is scanning th...

I had a huge argument with my sister (a teacher) about the coughing in the hands vs the elbow thing. I voted elbow. She says hands because then "they get washed". I said "only if you wash them".

Just a rant to start, then I will share examples. School I'm enrolled in is RN-ASN. New classes starts Monday, March 16th. This week is "Spring Break" and campus is closed. I am enrolled in "Med-Surg II" or Complex, with corresponding clinical. Clini...

I would address the fact that this patient is moving into end stage care, comfort care, while the doctor is ordering invasive and uncomfortable interventions that will prolong life. For what purpose? To what end? How about: Risk for compromised human...

I forgot to deaccess a mediport once. Pt was being transferred to a SNF via transport service on a Friday, and was going for OP chemo on Monday. The SNF had no idea how to deaccess, so I called the MD who said to leave the mediport accessed and that ...

Yes, either talk to her about it, or when these reference seekers call, let them know it's been 10 years since you worked with her, and actually she's your cousin, so maybe you could give a personal reference.

After this incident https://allnurses.com/nursing-humor-share/things-patients-have-52823-page150.html#post5020053 , the oncoming nurse and myself went down so I can show her where the IV line had "just come apart" (we knew he had done it on purpose) ...

Do not "mess with", "play with", or even "touch" your IV line if they seem to "come apart by themselves" (like it did a couple of days before, amazingly right above a pressure hub, again, making your chemo infused blood spill all over the floor). Esp...

I was taught differently; to round normally based on the first decimal point. But you should check with your instructor in order to get the question counted right in case they don't give partial credit. In practice, the difference between 17 drops/m...

Well I'd say it's a typo and they meant to say drops/minute, but maybe there's something I've missed? You've got micro drip tubing there, and it's drip factor is 60 gtt/min. I did find a calculation for micro drops, but basically you would just move ...

And does it really say microdrops/min? is that some new conversion I don't know? You can't calculate a microdrop can you? I'm seriously giggling now, mcgtt? It sounds like something you could order at McDonald's. At least it's not apothocary conversi...

Use that calculation I gave you up there; it's: (Amount of solution X drop factor)/time in minutes = drops per minute

ok i got 49 kg x 6 mcg/kg/min = 294 mcg/min 294 mcg/min = 0.294 mg/min 0.294 mg/min = 17.6 mg/hr 17.6 mg/hr = 17.6 ml/hr then: (17.6 ml x 60 gtt/min)/60 min = 17.6 gtt/min and i'd round it up to 18 gtt/min.

Where did the 0.6 mg come from? Ack!! Now I'm gonna start over from the beginning. ROFL now we're all confused. You're fixing it to I'll just keep going.

I'm still trying to figure out where the 4.2 came from. You got the 294 mcg/min, how did you get 4.2 mg/hr? 294 mcg/min = 0.294 mg/min right? Then 0.294 mcg x 60 = 17.6 mg/hr No matter which way I do it, I can't get 4.2 anywhere. Oh well, I always h...

Convert the mcg/min into mg /min. Then convert the mg/min to mg/hr. Since it's 250 mg/250ml, your mg/hr will = ml /hr. You've already calculated the mcg/kg/min and I got the same. I got a completely different mg/hr than you though. 49 kg X 6 = amount...

I stuck myself with a clean butterfly once, then almost exposed my patient. The cap wouldn't come off and when I pulled it off with force, it must have stuck me, and I didn't even feel it (those butterflies are what 28 gauge? later it felt like I had...

Just piggy back one foley bag into another. Take off the "foley" part of the second bag and put the spout from the first into the rubber tubing from the second. Then unclamp the first bag and it will drain into the second. When you hang them below th...

No I didn't prepare for the HESI. No more than I did for any class test. I just considered it another test for each class, not something extra. You can easily get overwhelmed if you act as if it's a seperate course of study, because it's not, it's ju...

Well, what does the performance report state you need to work on? What areas did you fall below the standard on?

Well, that's how I applied, and all I got was an e-mail.