tiffanyleigh0212

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1. Floated to Tele, no experience...

   tiffanyleigh0212 replied to RNewbie's topic in Cardiac

   our hospital doesn't allow pulled nurses on our floor unless they are from another tele unit and have been through the certifications. if your hospital does allow that, i think they should at least...

2. Rhythm interpretation a fib

   tiffanyleigh0212 replied to lolakbolak's topic in Cardiac

   a fib is the absence of Pwaves, so it could actually be regular and still be a

3. Patient ratios progressive care units

   tiffanyleigh0212 replied to kaylasmommy's topic in Cardiac

   I work on a step down unit. Our floor has 42 pts with a ratio of 1:4 or 1:5. We are the only floor besides the icus that can take a vent pt. If we have a vent pt it's an automatic 1:4 ratio. We also...

4. Aquapheresis

   tiffanyleigh0212 replied to cardiacnurse05's topic in Cardiac

   our floor has been using aquadex for awhile and we've had so much success with it. i've only had one negative thing happen while having a patient on it, and it really wasn't even bad, a patient's BP...

5. usually, how long into the program do clinicals start?

   tiffanyleigh0212 replied to uglybetty1's topic in General Students

   We started a week after school

6. Testicular Torsion

   tiffanyleigh0212 replied to tiffanyleigh0212's topic in General Students

   Thanks so much for yalls help. TerpGal I didn't even think of tissue perfusion and risk for injury, those are great. While going through reading my case study again I realized that it says since the...

7. Testicular Torsion

   tiffanyleigh0212 replied to tiffanyleigh0212's topic in General Students

   I was thinking risk for infection because of surgery, and activity intolerance due the surgery

8. Testicular Torsion

   tiffanyleigh0212 posted a topic in General Students

   I'm doing a C-MAP on testicular torsion and am coming up short on nursing diagnosis. I've looked all through my book and nursing diagnosis book. The main thing that is said is about the pain, so...

9. Clinical Parking

   tiffanyleigh0212 replied to TmC1999's topic in General Students

   wow, i feel really lucky. we have to park in the employee parking which is a decent ways away, but the employee shuttle circles around constantly picking up people and take them to the hospital and...

10. Question I got wrong on my test!

    tiffanyleigh0212 replied to Laurs14's topic in General Students

    that's exactly what i was trying to

11. Question I got wrong on my test!

    tiffanyleigh0212 replied to Laurs14's topic in General Students

    it can be argued by arguing weight, you don't have a baseline. arguing skin turgor, it isn't always acurate either depending on the

12. Question I got wrong on my test!

    tiffanyleigh0212 replied to Laurs14's topic in General Students

    depending on the pts age. among a few other things. older pts. tent without being dehydrated, so it doesn't necessarily show signs of dehydration. i'm just saying the arguments can go both

13. Question I got wrong on my test!

    tiffanyleigh0212 replied to Laurs14's topic in General Students

    i just said as a general rule of thumb it's by weight. but you can argue that you don't have enough info to base it off of weight and as skin turgor (ie: they didn't say his age etc. as they didn't...

14. Question I got wrong on my test!

    tiffanyleigh0212 replied to Laurs14's topic in General Students

    So tell us then how skin turgor is going to show the extent of the fluid loss? it's not, and further more, you don't the pts. age or anything or he might tent normally and it mean nothing, so the same...

15. Test Question

    tiffanyleigh0212 replied to tiffanyleigh0212's topic in General Students

    Thanks everyone for your input, apparently the entire class gave her crap about it so she said she would accept both answers. Still irritates me though as to why on earth she would think that way...