CCL RN

CCL RN RN

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  1. IV Gauge for CT

    CCL RN replied to EDrunnerRN's topic in Emergency

    You're welcome. A CTA is different, *quite different* than a regular CT chest. To be fair, I was quoting YOU. You've worked for 5 years and never had an extravasation, yet you see the cases everyday...

  2. MGH is offering new grad ICU internship for $11.44 an hour?

    CCL RN replied to DisneybearRN's topic in Massachusetts Nursing

    Oh wow! Thats

  3. MGH is offering new grad ICU internship for $11.44 an hour?

    CCL RN replied to DisneybearRN's topic in Massachusetts Nursing

    Absolutely!! The entitlement attitude is absurd! Sorry, but new grads bring nothing to the table but liability and debt. Then, many leave because they can't handle it, they hate it, or they move on to...

  4. 2 questions- pulse ox and pneumonia related

    CCL RN replied to aduska86's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    Agree. Every time I see a pt use the IS they always cough!! Thats the best time for a sample... Q3 wasn't posted when I replied, but I agree with using the

  5. 2 questions- pulse ox and pneumonia related

    CCL RN replied to aduska86's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    "Most studies concluded hemoglobin concentration does not impact pulse oximetry accuracy until hematocrit value is less than 10 percent."...

  6. 2 questions- pulse ox and pneumonia related

    CCL RN replied to aduska86's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    1- you do not take pts off steroids, you wean them off, and they are very necessary in resp illnesses. Also, taking a pt off a medication isnt really a nursing intervention. The question specifically...

  7. Care plans are stupid.

    CCL RN replied to maestrotee's topic in General Nursing

    I hate care plans and think they are stupid. However; they are required on every pt in our hospital, and EVERY hospital I've worked at in the last 15 years. We even do them in the cath lab. Every...

  8. Help! New nurse and arterial lines!

    CCL RN replied to new nurse stl's topic in Critical Care

    Yup, when I was learning I turned it towards the hard part of the tubing. We are zeroing the system, not the patient. So you turn it towards the pt so that the system is all open and ready to be...

  9. scrub tech= scrub nurse? hmmm....

    CCL RN replied to OhioCCRN's topic in General Nursing

    That was my

  10. IV starts

    CCL RN replied to all4ofus's topic in General Students

    By the time i started an IV on a real person I had draw blood on hundreds of people. But I will tell you this.,.IVs are 80% confidence and 20% skill. If your internal voice is telling you "I can do...

  11. RN Pay rates in Seattle and area

    CCL RN replied to saskrn's topic in Washington Nursing

    Anybody?? What are nurses making up

  12. IV Gauge for CT

    CCL RN replied to EDrunnerRN's topic in Emergency

    Meh. I work in a level one trauma, magnet, teaching hospital. And whatdda know? 20 g always works just fine. I mean, we aren't doing regular ol' CTs either. I'm talking CT angiography. This test...

  13. Profound hypoglycemia after d/c sodium bicarb gtt

    CCL RN replied to WWRN's topic in General Nursing

    Plain and simple: you stopped his glucose gtt! 1/2 amp/hr is a lot, and sounds like he needed

  14. Experienced RN Relocating to WA this fall

    CCL RN replied to Bunny1975's topic in Washington Nursing

    Any word on the pay an experienced nurse may make in the Tacoma/Seattle

  15. scrub tech= scrub nurse? hmmm....

    CCL RN replied to OhioCCRN's topic in General Nursing

    It's not just illegal, it's a felony. Class 6 felony in my state I

  16. RN doing conscious sedation non-intubated patient

    CCL RN replied to Surgerygirl's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    Very nice link, thank

  17. hematoma

    CCL RN replied to kbucka's topic in Cardiac

    Hematomas at our facility are very low. We close when we can (angiosel/perclose) or hold manual pressure. Very rarely do we use a femstop. For a hematoma we use man pressure and if it feels like it...

  18. Unit secretary turned tele tech

    CCL RN replied to tokmom's topic in General Nursing

    That's ridiculous! Your manager needs to pick up a few shifts to re-educate herself on what it's like to be a

  19. scrub tech= scrub nurse? hmmm....

    CCL RN replied to OhioCCRN's topic in General Nursing

    She doesn't hold a California nursing license, if here name is the

  20. test question!

    CCL RN replied to BA_anthropology's topic in General Students

    Mine was a complex, obscure nightmare!! The questions were ridiculous! Also, 75 questions, 45

  21. A question about Adenosine

    CCL RN replied to Aerin's topic in Emergency

    Depends. Are they stable or unstable? Adenosine helps us see the underlying rhythm. If it's just plain ol ST, then we treat the cause. Afib then we may try some other way to convert (cardizem, etc)...

  22. Unit secretary turned tele tech

    CCL RN replied to tokmom's topic in General Nursing

    I know, we do too. I eyeball all day. Then at 1800 I have the strips printed out on one sheet, I correct/remeasure, then sign and chart. The tele tech (we don't have) would still measure Q4, and you...

  23. Moving Too Slowly in Emergent Situations

    CCL RN replied to LaurenBoog's topic in Critical Care

    I hear you, and that's fair. If you can squeeze a CT trip into that busy day, then I don't think you are moving too slowly Sounds like you are doing the best you can. Cut yourself some

  24. MGH is offering new grad ICU internship for $11.44 an hour?

    CCL RN replied to DisneybearRN's topic in Massachusetts Nursing

    Now you're just getting angry because few people agree with you. You don't know where I'm at... Here, I'll tell you what part of the country I'm in.... I'm in new-grads-can't-get-a-job town. Yeah,...

  25. test question!

    CCL RN replied to BA_anthropology's topic in General Students

    What's funny is that if you timed us all, we would probably all do all of the tasks in the same amount of time. All would get