nursepearl

I am curious as to how many of us are members of the national student nurses assiocation? Also if any of us hold a position either on the national, state, or school level? and lastly, WHo is going to the Conference in TN. sometime in March? So I wi...

When my boyfriend was in Liver failure he had ascities but the MD did not believe it was as bad as we said it was. He was a short gut pt. so he had NO intestine...his normal belly was caved in. When we went to the MD and showed him his abd, he said...

As an oncology nurse our pts have either piccs or some kind of central line (ie. hickmans, groshongs) or a permacath. I use vaccutainers with all blood draws, unless I cant get any blood back and then I will try to used 10cc syringes. If that doesnt...

I too look like a health freak while I am at work. I pack easy stuff like pb&j, grilled cheese and tomato soup, fruits, veggies, diet coke and water. People comment and say how healthy I eat, but I only eat that way because if I brought somthin...

I have been working nights for a few years now and it seems to work pretty good for me. I get home about 0830 and head right to be, usually watch some tv and fall asleep. I wake up between 12-2 and then I have to pick up my son from school. If I a...

Hey guys, I have been a working on an solid, hematology oncology and bmt/stem cell transplant floor for three years. We have tons of new grads. I think it is a great place to start nursing. Although my floor also get a lot of med/surg over flow if ...

we get $4.00 for night shift and $2.50 for weekends

IN the hospital setting we do not add anything to the TPN and if the TPn order changes then we send it back down to the pharmacy to be changed. As far as the 70/30....sounds fishy to me. My boyfriend is on TPN at home and we add mulite vitamins an...

hi there, I am a bedside nurse in a large university hospital and I work on an oncology. We mostly work with leukemia and lymphomas here but see a little of everything. I love oncology nursing because you really get to know your patients and there ...

I have looked this question up online but havent come up with an answer. So, why, if a spleen is functioning normally, would it be removed with a liver and bowel transplant?

my bf has chronic pancreatitis, although it is TPN induced. They are going to do a nerve ablation to try to get rid of the pain....so we will see if that works. I hope you are doing better and get this under control.

I work on a hem/onc floor and our pts. have permacaths place for stem cell collection. We are allowed to use them just as we would any other IV. Most of them do not get hep. locked....we run tko@ 20 cc's. Only hep.locked upon discharge.

We run IVIG pretty much every wednesday with or stem cell transplant pts. We can run it two ways...piggy backed into d5w and also long-lined into d5w. Of course the IVIG has to be run through a run.

This is an inpatient problem as well.... My boyfriend was a pt. at the hospital I work at. I was supposed to give him a ride home before I started my night shift. I told the nurse over the phone that the d/c instructions had to be ready by 3pm. So...

It could also be what we call a "banana bag" which is basically a bag of fluid with vitamins. Somtimes we hang it with lipids....depending on the pt. We use TPN a lot here on our oncology floor as out pts have a lot of nausea and of course can be ...

As a hem/onc nurse I deal with piccs on a daily basis. Most of the ones here are arrows, power or groshong piccs. You can draw from either port using the same technique as several people have stated above.

I am a HemOnc Rn. At my hospital the Hem part is blood cancers (ie. leukemias) and then we also deal with solid cancers (ie. lymphomas, liver ca...etc) We give a lot of chemo and we also do stem cell transplants (the more common used to be bone marr...

I was getting my son ready for school and it was his 4th birthday. Today, his 9th will be a much better one!:biggringi

As a person with a family member who is frequently hospitalized and I would stay in the hospital with him.....even every four hours was almost too much to bear on night shift. Of course it was needed to take vitals....but man was it hard for us to ...

Yes, they are completely seperate lumens. But like the above poster said you should call the pharm. There are very few meds that should not be ran at the same time as anything else....especially ones that may cause a reaction and if it was being ru...

You flush 50cc of the insulin through the tubing so the insulin will bind to the recpetor sites and when you begin your infusion you will be sure the pt is getting the insulin as opposed to it binding to the tubing.

5th floor is med/surg with some cardiac monitoring and floor is onology with med/surg overflow as well as gyn onc.

Huntington beach is very expensive to live in. Although the apartments are nice. There are some nice areas of santa ana, such as floral park or near south coast plaza....although it is also expensive. I used to live in orange county and work at UC...

I am an oncology nurse here and I love it. Its an intense hospital to work at. I have a family member who is often a patient here and he has been on basically every floor here and I have to say that we have had the best experience on the 5th floor...

Ucla does hirer ADN nurses. I have been working there for two years with an adn