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Still think its a great idea for screening.........

A remedy to help clean up infected wounds,,,,,,,,,clean with salt water(saline).pat dry......apply white table sugar to infection...........place small gauze over top then cover and tape with saran wrap..Leave for 48 hours.......remove..............r...

Where I work it is also a admission protocol.that swabs be taken.for MRSA as well as VRE...............Keeping these pts separated from negative swabs for MRSA and VRE.........

Hi..try online at http://www.avida.com................they will send you a catalogue or order online.............. well made products.........

Guess it depends where you live......I'm in windsor and RPN full time jobs are hard to find..........Part time temp jobs, you can get .........I.ve worked with some RPN that have 7-8 years seniority and still cant get full time positions...............

Can I ask what Byetta is ???

Just the other day I had one of my patients ask if you could **** in my pants....Realizing what she said. she turned beat red and refraced her question :Can you change my pants............After a bit of a giggle we proceeded with the task at hand

Hi Porche......There is a pain clinic in the Windsor area....Its called the DeLisle Pain Clinic..... This older gentleman used to work at one of the car manufacturers. and after he retired he created this electro magnetic device for controlling pain ...

Porche;;;;;;;;;;;;;Hi...Where in Ontario is your brother............??

Hi Angel::: I am an RPN in a Complex care setting in a hospital, actually on a palliative care floor...We have had RPN students on the floor for 1st semester . along with the teacher...The teacher usually asks the floor nurses which patients would...

They have one or should I say HAD a dunkin donuts but it didn.t last...Maybe bad location...but here Tim.s rules....

Your absolutely right...March is coming and hopefully I.m winning .( more than last time.....1 freakin cookie.. and the dog got it....LOL

EH....What was that you said.....LOL

Hi....I live in Windsor Ontario and YES... there is definetely a Tims around every corner....We had a few Robins in the city..But the ones we did have were in terrible locations...Even the drive through ones....I didn.t find their coffee all that imp...

It depends on the site the duoderm is applied..If its a coccyx abrasion...They seem to wrinkle and make the abrasion worse... Sometimes ending up with a stage 1 or 2 wound.....

We had a patient who had a necrotic scotum...The Dr. was at his wits end about how to heal it up....He told us do what you want and try anything.....We started applying vasaline guaze to the area with abd pads in the groin areas and around the scrota...

We have banned hydrogen peroxide for any type of wound care as it damages the good skin and actually damages the ulcer itself

I work in southwestern ontario..Windsor to be exact and YES we have had major cutbacks.....This city started with 4 hospitals and we now have 2 ...We were the first in the province to downsize and not duplicate services.This has all boiled down to lo...

HI ...............I have worked with G-tubes for years and find some of them can be a real pain...........If the patient is not on a continous feed...Then prior to the next feed .Open the port and message the abdomen...sometimes their is gas build up...

We have not used HP in ages..They found that it macerated the peri wound area and actually slowed down the healing process.... Normal saline dressings wored much better and the healing time itself was much faster...

I live in Windsor Ontario which is a border city across from Detroit Michigan. They do not give flu shots to US residents..Even Canadians have to have 2 valid pieces of ID One has to be a photo ID...There are several clinics giving out shots or you...