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In my ICU the nurses complete all patient care. This includes bathing patients, getting them out of bed, helping them onto bedpans, cleaning them when they are done. The nurse does everything. The nursing assistant just stocks rooms and take blood...

I understand what the OP is saying and I think some people are misunderstanding the post. Some people hit it right on the mark. I don't think she is talking about taking a decision away from the patient or their family. She is saying that maybe dialy...

I was thinking of buying a new labtop for CRNA school. I was wondering if anyone had opinions on what type of computer to buy. I was wanting to buy a MAC but I was wondering if it is necessary to buy such an expensive computer or if I should just k...

To family members who think your only job is to give them updates: You were on hold for 15 minutes. Well this is an ICU, there are sick people here. Actually, I was in your mother's room taking care of her when you called. She is having trouble brea...

Haha, this is only funny because I was thinking the same thing you posted after I got off of work today, "What can you do when you can't do it all?" I hear you, you are preaching to the choir. I work in the ICU and I still feel the way you do (but ...

I want my children to find something they would be happy with and where they would feel like they were making a difference. However, I wish for them something I feel I did not have growing up. That is, I want them to know about all their options. ...

The nurses I worked with that were around in the 70's and 80's said that they remember when HIV/AIDS didn't have a name and that these patients would come in the hospital with the diagnosis: Fever of unknown origin. Also, many antiobiotics were giv...

Need more info, (like maybe the complete blood gas). However, you said he was a renal patient with phos of 12. I would need more labs like BUN, creatinine to say this, but maye he needed dialysis. It sounds like his CO2 was low, maybe he was compe...

We switched over to valium IV for ETOH withdrawal and we even sometimes use ketamine drips (like they do with burn patients).

I will tell you that even doctors have problems in ACLS class. In my experience, the nurses know more :)

This whole process seems to defeat the purpose of the 5 rights and the 3 checks and should be re-evaluated.

1. I had a BS in neuroscience before I became a nurse and I will say that nursing school was harder. Once you actually become a nurse you will see that everything always falls on the nurse. If a change needs to be made, it all falls on the nurse. ...

Also, why are they not starting a beta blocker?

What about pheochromocytoma? This tumor can secrete excessive amount of epi and norepi. Besides the physical symptoms of elevated BP and HR they can get crazy too. Did you guys check her urine for catecholamine metabolites? Maybe the poison is an unr...

106.7 neuroleptic malignant syndrome, patient survived episode. Surprisingly cooling and treating with dantrolene worked (we treated it like malignant hyperthermia). Patient died a week later, but from whatever caused the syndrome and not because of ...

So, I start CRNA school in the beginning of June and I was wondering when you should start worrying about getting loans for school. I did fill out the FAFSA in February ( I know that I will not qualify for financial aid, but I know that initiates th...

I believe as an undergrad there you either get a BA (Bachelor of Arts), or BS (Bachelor of Science). Nursing is a BS degree. You get a BSN degree, which stands for Bachelor of Science in Nursing. I don't think there is a BN degree, or Bachelor of...

It is the same reason every doctor likes to do things differently. We are all different. We have all read differenet research and we all teach differently, so we all will learn differently. Also, there are different institutional policies based on...

I am curious what you do not like about UMDNJ's program. I was accepted to Columbia, but rejected from UMDNJ. I really took it to heart and was disapointed because I heard that UMDNJ was more difficult to get into. I didn't even get an interview th...

I do not like the gossip, backstabbing and tattling involved in nursing. I just think it is annoying. I do not want people to do it to me and I don't want to be around it. I have learned to just stay away from it. When someone talks about someone...

Was the patient fluid overloaded? What was his/her CVP? Was he on an inotrope? I just had a patient with an LVAD that was in RV failure (pre-procedure R heart function was poor and post surgery RV failure increased) Anyway, without the RVad every ...

I wonder why healthcare is so expensive. Maybe we just need to re-evaluate where the money is being spent. i.e. unnessasary ICU stays could be one of them.

I have noticed that anyone over 80 seems to enjoy going to the doctor because it gets them out of their house and they may be lonely. My mother brings her aunt who is 88 to one doctor or another every week. Her aunt makes the appointments and my mo...

Also the play "Wit" where the nurse is portrayed as really being there for the patient in her dying moments while others may treat her as just another patient.

What is his RV function like? Was it distended. Was he fluid overloaded? Most respiratory arrests I have seen were either bradycardic arrests or asystolic arrests.