Littleguccipiggy

Littleguccipiggy

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About Littleguccipiggy

Littleguccipiggy has 2 years experience and specializes in Oncology.


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  1. Employee HEalth Surveillance Program

    I didn't reply since you were asking about outpatient surveillance. I currently work inpatient and my workplace follows ONC guidelines. Its done through employee health, so I believe only nurses who...
  2. rituximab infusion rate (calculation)

    Whoa. I haven't worked at many hospitals, but I've never seen Rituxan not in a 1:1 concentration. That's asking for someone to make a rate error with that concentration. Is there a specific reason...
  3. Sign-on Bonuses Are Alive and Well

    Sounds tempting, but I can't go back to those unsafe nurse patient ratios I had when I was in Texas before. (Granted, it was a small county hospital, not a big hospital like Houston.) That and I don't...
  4. Help Me Get Excited About My Shift to Night Shift!

    I love night shift! Sure, my sleep schedule is all wonky, but I could never switch to days. Here's what I love: There's less people around - respiratory, PT/OT, chaplin, volunteers, family members....
  5. Should I Wear this to Work?

    I've never had a problem wearing a necklace at work. If anything people tend to grab at my giant badge to see my name. I have the HRC's blue equality pin on my badge buddy and nobody cares about it. I...
  6. starting to take ons chemo biotherapy course soon

    The discussion topics are pretty straightforward. Most the of the questions are based off of your personal experiences or how things are done at your hospital. For the test just use the chemobook and...
  7. Chemo/Biotherapy course

    You can take as long as you want. Just read the directions on the test. It tells you have to save your work so you can go back to
  8. Steps to become an Oncology Nurse

    OCN is mostly for status, since its a requirement for Magnet to have a certain percentage of specialized nurses, hospitals are pushing for all of their nurses to get certified. Its the same as ADN vs...
  9. Steps to become an Oncology Nurse

    It will depend on your hospital's policy on when new grads will be able to hang chemo. It seems that its typically about six months. When your hospital feels that you are ready, they'll have you take...
  10. Steps to become an Oncology Nurse

    Its pretty much the same as any unit. Get hired into an oncology unit, gain experiences, get you ONS chemotherapy & biotherapy card, and if you really want to, become an
  11. Port-a-cath needle removal

    I didn't even know there are still manufacturers out there that don't put safety devices on their needles. That is a huge safety issue. Ports are usually pretty secure where they are, but I also can't...
  12. Night shift scheduling!

    At my hospital we don't self schedule, but the night shift manager is awesome at giving us a great skeleton schedule. Thurs/Fri/Sat, Sun/Mon off, then Tues/Wed/Thurs on. That way we get six days off...
  13. An Atheist Nurse in King James Hospital

    What's worse than being Atheist is being Buddhist. Thankfully, I've only been bible thumped once, and that was when I lived in the middle Texas. I was a new grad then, so I didn't know I could say...
  14. 8/22 What I learned this week....

    When a butt looks like two tennis balls bouncing up and down, kind of like Ned Flanders I imagine. I have yet to meet Dr. Dreamy
  15. 8/22 What I learned this week....

    This week I learned -I am trying to not get my feelings hurt when job #2 decided to extend my orientation one more day -No matter how much the nurses say job #2 is better or easier, I still love the...