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Wow...surprised at all the petty remarks here.... My older sister has a 2 1/2 year old and a 3 1/2 month old...she was carrying the 2 1/2 year old (too feisty to put in a cart), and had the 3 1/2 month old in her car seat/carrier thing on the top of ...

If it is yucky and oozy and not looking so hot (maybe infection setting in...), we have used silvadene cream covered in gauze. Works AWESOME. Only for goopy icky ones, but applying it twice a day, wrapping it in some dry gauze to let it do its thin...

As for me, we started early. I come from a family with NO money--my mom raised 4 kids on $800 a month in child support and help from her family. Nothing. My goal in life was to have enough money for everything I need, and some of what I want. An...

We use rotobeds for patients that are in cervical traction or have unstable spines...they rotate to whatever degree you set them at, and have a trapdoor for bowel issues. Neat!

I thought I was pretty clear..........shoreline is my preference..........

I also went to shoreline for my ADN, then to UW-Bothell for my ADN-BSN program. So, I am a bit biased.... BUT.....I can say with all honesty that the students from Shoreline we have on our unit (we get them from just about every program in the area-...

I am in the process of working with some other nurses and educators in my trauma hospital to make a pin care guideline. We are starting a study that will hopefully be published in the next year or so. Reviews of the literature available out there s...

after a long day working trauma/orthopedics in Seattle.......... It was day shift on Ortho, and all along the floor, patients were yelling 'knock before opening my door!'; Armed with my 'brain' and my alcohol swabs, I looked 'round the breakroom and ...

Just browsing around and seeing mention of some of the things used in your facilities for pain control. I work on a trauma/ortho unit (we don't do elderly total hips, knee replacements, etc--we do 'car crushed my leg' or 'bus rolled over with my ar...

Dysplasia is actually pretty common and is usually nothing. As far as HPV, I was involved in the huge study through the UW here in Seattle that was published earlier this year. The study was the creation of a vaccine to prevent HPV, which is usuall...

Anyone else?? I am studying up, taking it October 15th. It was my new years resolution this year (I get $1 raise, yippee), and it is going fairly well so far. I work in a trauma/ortho unit, so I see all the trauma stuff that is covered, but have...

I work on a trauma/ortho unit and we see lots of these. The 'turtle' brace (TLSO--thoracolumbarsacral orthotic) may be all you need if there is no canal compromise and the fractures are stable/not displaced. Generally, we put people in these for 12...

I do remember my first hospital patient (as opposed to my first nursing home patient from the quarter before). Our instructor assigned patients to us on our first day, and we went in only having a brief diagnosis. We were supposed to introduce ours...

Umm....if it looks like a grenade, it's a JP (Jackson Pratt). If it is round and flat with springs inside, it is a HemoVac (HV). Not sure about the blake.

Well, I work both 8 and 12 hour day shifts at an extremely busy level 1 trauma center on the trauma/orthopedics unit. My day~~~ 0700-0730- get report on the 3-4 patients that I will be responsible for. We do total care, so the RN is responsible fo...

I work at Harborview in orthopedics and went through the new grad program here. It is tailored to you. generally, it is about 12 weeks long, you spend the first 8 weeks or so(depending on your progress) working with a precepting nurse on the day sh...

When I was in nursing school, they were filming for the show "Birth Day", and one of my patients was having a C-section and I was filmed in that one. Didn't do much but stand next to the docs as they did all the work. He was great in telling all th...

We are a trauma/ortho unit, so no total joints or little ligament repairs, etc. Our planned foot surgery pts lately have come in with peripheral nerve caths of bupivicaine for 1-2 days post-op, especially for calc fractures. They also may or may no...

my point exactly lets not just throw out stereotypes and try to pigeonhole people.

so if your friends decide to jump off a bridge, I guess I know where to look for you Just because a bunch of people do something a certain way doesn't automatically mean that every other way is wrong And, as of 2003, per the www.census.gov website,...

oh my god you people scare me. i work in an extremely diverse environment, with nurses from portugal, new zealand, ethiopia, eritrea, [color=#0f0b7f]côte d'ivoire, canada, nigeria, china, vietnam, korea, the philippines, england, denmar...

My sister called me on the phone in tears, saying that she was having horrible abdominal pain and thought it was maybe horrible PMS cramps or her appendix. After asking a few questions (pain was on the right side and radiated to her back, pain was a...

Are you kidding??!?? I have never heard/seen any of this. Our docs don't yell at us, they respect us. On occasion someone will get snooty (generally if it is an off-service pt and the doc is not as familiar with our floor), but that is absolutely ...

Washington has a law against mandatory overtime in nursing. It is their responsibility to find someone to cover the shifts, not the individual nurse's. If they absolutely can't find someone, we have had our assistant nurse managers take over shifts...

For our patients, if it is a stable, nondisplaced fracture that is not in danger of becoming displaced, they get a Miami J cervical collar for 12 weeks with limited physical activity. Surgery is not always required, especially for just a hairline fr...