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Hello, all - I need advice from some IV gurus out there. I was trained that all IV sticks should be dressed with a sterile dressing - with Tegaderm/Opsite being preferred because the site could be easily monitored. In the department I have worked in ...

wasnt sure whether to post this in agency forum or here but since it is peds-specific decided to start here. I am signing on with a couple of peds homecare agencies for private duty-type cases. I am doing this because (1) I love working with special ...

I will try to be brief here, but there is a lot to tell so bear with me. Since March I have been prn status for M/S and ER averaging 2 days a week at a very small and struggling rural hospital in a neighboring county. I was hired prn with the unders...

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I am an Emory alum, and although I am paying off student loans, I got a wonderful nursing education there. They did an especially good job in preparing me for the MSN program that I am now in (unfortunately with a kid on the way to college I couldn't...

An estimated 10% of children in Georgia under the age of eighteen have asthma (Georgia Department of Human Resources, 2006). Nationally, an estimated 12.8 million school days were lost to asthma in 2004 (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 20...

For weeks there was all sorts of lively banter between a group of you that were starting Emory's BSN program....now that school has started not a peep from any of you. I'm just wondering how you guys are doing and how you like it so far. I know that ...

that child needed to be in the ER hours ago. I pray she did OK. Sounds a lot like a case we had in our ER a few weeks ago. young girl in from out of town for an event, in on Friday for high fever, dx FUO (fever unknown origin), sent home. Back in on ...

I wonder if any of you know of a website, cookbook or just have anecdotal info about what foods a chemo pt. might be able to tolerate well or even actually enjoy. I have a family member starting therapy for lung Ca with taxol, or something related to...

http://www.cbs46.com/Global/story.asp?S=5473158 (CBS 46 News) -- A CBS 46 Investigation has discovered approximately 2,000 disabled children that have been kicked off Georgia's Medicaid program in just the last 18 months.

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Last night I had a pt who, while telling me about all his prior surgeries & injuries, told me that he played in the NFL for 12 years. Now, I am a HUGE football fan, so I did ask him who he played for, what position and what college he had played ...

well, then I need my own chapter in a theory book somewhere. because that is what I live and breathe by....by necessity.

zenman is right. just relax and try to go with the flow.

OK, glad to hear you guys are doing well. hang in there. pm me if I can ever be of help, although I'm sure a lot has changed subce 2000.

not so much that, as it just takes me longer in general to get going. My stalling and delays come up front with a lot of teeth-gnashing about how to get started and approach the project. Once I get started, I usually am on a roll, well, at least sort...

thank you! I was not familiar with this, but intend to program ICE into all of my family's phones. I am going to suggest it to other family members as well.

I have never encountered "writers block" of the variety and the severity of the type that I have to deal with in my MSN program. ARRRRGH! I am one that is never at a shortage for words....that is, until now.

I have the utmost respect for LPN's. Most all that I have ever worked with really know their stuff, and can "run circles around" a lot of RNs.

I think what the OP was asking of all of us was to examine our own behavior and not be party to such "lynchings" of fellow nurses (whether graduate or experienced). At least that's the gist of what I took from the OP's post. We all should remind ours...

I can usually find 2 or 3 minutes for a quick pee. Being in my mid-40s and having had children, I cannot afford the risk of toting around a full bladder:rotfl: If it ever is an issue I can always get someone to cover 2-3 minutes for me. That's where...

have an "discharge team" a float nurse or nurses, depending on the size of the unit(S). (and they could help with admits too) Make staff understand that it is a 24/7 job and to take advantage of "teachable moments" to get some of the d/c instruction ...

whatever path you eventually choose, none of your education thus far, nor your life experiences, will ever be wasted. My suggestion, like many other posters have said, is to stick out this semester...learn all you can...even if you do not stay in nu...

I think that my "roles" class is going to be great....only problem I am having is that I STILL do not have a preceptor!!! The individual that agreed to do it previously has bailed...saying that she had another student that she was precepting from ano...

A lot of it is due to their compromised nutritional status...they can go for days without eating or sleeping when on a meth binge. Also, chronic meth users pick at their skin compulsively. I recall one woman that came into our rural ER who, besides h...