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i did a rotation in our regional burn unit which is situated in a regional pediatric hospital and takes both adults and children of all ages and burn types. it was the facility at which the skin culturing was developed. afterward i was enthralled, a...

Well, all burns get cleaned when they come in, regardless of whats on them under normal curcumstances, even tubed pts. So whether its a big burn that gets tubbed, or a little burn that just gets cleaned it all comes off for examination because, no of...

The cold water is the same priciple as the ice, twofold: the cold temperature of the ice or water can lower body temp very quickly, its surprising, even cold water will do it secondly, the tissue is already damaged, and since part of the skin is alre...

We use a flowsheet on our burn patients when they enter our 1:1 critical stage and need close monitoring, its a lowsheet that our unit made that spe4cifically tracks everything important to our patients and is set up in a way that works well for us, ...

We LOVE students in our burn center, paramedic, nursing, medical, ANY, but i especially love the nursing students, you will get to see SO much, and ill tell you now-you will get SO much information, because of the education aspect of the specialty bu...

Hi! heres the deal. At our regional burn center we have seen a good number of BAD mistakes made by paramedics our outlying ERs and Docs that didnt know what the heck they were doing with burns. I suspect we arent the only ones to see this, so please ...

My apologies for offense, i was writing from a standpoint where i assumed that most persons in this forum were burn nurses. Rural hospitals are outlying, just as metropolitan ones are, I never mentioned rurals to begin with. One outlying facility, wh...

For heaven sakes! one might think that i bashed rural hospitals into the ground. Outlying facilities are ANY other non burn center facilities, not just ones out in the country like near where i live. A few posts ago there was a note, from gwenith i b...

gwenith, lol, i understand completely, before i got to my present center i worked in a Tiny little rural hospital in ohio

We offer extensive outreach to all the hospitals in our 17 county area along with inservices for ER staff residents and anyone willing to listen. We also send out materials, and offer an "open door" policy in regards to consultation from pts in their...

This is aweful! Our unit has these patients frequently, and to me it sounds as if she was completely mistreated from the beginning. Xeroform is a good dressing, but certainly not the cetaphil lotion alone, and probably with no tubbing or baths either...

The burn center i work at was the first to have cultured skin, but we have stopped using it entirely because of its poor endurance and easy breakdown later in life, I wonder if the same problems are found in this technique

I had one woman who burned her children up purposely in a housefire, very susan smith-ish, new boyfriend, didnt want her kids-tried to pin it on th 6 year old playing with a lighter. The other is just recently a woman and a man were getting a divorc...

We use it for cauterization of wounds. Acticoat is something we use in our center, though it does stain the skin like crazy as well, we change it every 2 days, our surgeons like to see our wounds as often as possible so we dont usually do a 3 day cha...

burn nurses love to pick!!!! we pick dead skin all day long, lol, kind of like peeling a family member sun burn only on a different scale i guess!! Many type A's but since it takes a wierd sense of humor its not too bad here, we all get along really ...

i was wondering if any of you have the new temporal ones in your facilities and use them, and what you think of them overall. I tend to use them as long as the pt is not sweaty or covered in dressings but i also touch their skin just to double check ...

my burn center uses mayo as well, sounds funny but it works great!! however you know how some non experienced practitioners nd hospitals are with burns . . this is FOR REAL. A hospital in our area got a pt with a tar burn which id not require admissi...

Hi love. I hated clinicals, dreaded them every week, felt ill, and was miserable the entire time i was in the hospital. By the sam tolkein i hated my first job on a med surg floor. The thing is there are SO many areas in nursing, you can do nearly An...

Thank you!!! My brother has had juvenille diabetes for 21 years, since he was 4. Artificial sweetners became a way of life for our entire family because of this. I have had peole shoving these fake chain letters in my fae for a couple of years now, a...

I left a job that after years of begging and false promises never gave me more than 1 12 per week. I love 12's and here is why if i work that day is pretty much shot for me for the most part. I might as well have that only happen 3 days pe weeks i ge...

yeh, Varicella and Measels, man that was scary when i was preggo we would get unvaccinated kids sometimes and if they had an unexplained ash i was always scred to death, plus my hosp didnt have proper neg pressure iso rooms for some of those things, ...

were you asking me goodie . .? :) yeh, i like big burn ICU patients or dressing and tub team the best

It depends on the doctor. I think its wrong to stereotype docs as eveil nurse basking superioir feeling folks, however there are a few out there, and the always make life. . . interesting. I work in a specialty critical care area and on my unit a lot...

i worked with many MRSA pts while pregnant with both my children, VRE however was a strict no no with my doc, so i avoided it, the thing is, come on folks, even with percautions most of us who work in MRSA areas everyday are colonized to begin with ....

An average day in a burn unit depends on your function for the day, burn patients have surgery frequently, so if you are directly caring for a large burn most of your day can be tied up in preparing for your pt to go to OR, getting ready before they ...