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  1. are CVL placements a horrible painful experience for pts?

    epiphany posted a topic in Patient Safety Issues

    Any nurses who has seen CVL placements, please let me know if, in your experience, this procedures is very painful for the pt. I witnessed my first today -femoral site - and it seems to have caused...

  2. about injections: are filters important for ampuled drugs?

    epiphany posted a topic in General Nursing

    I have to give a lot of b12 shots out of ampules, but we don't ever use filters. I know how school teachings can differ from "real life", but I'm nervous about not using them. I read that...

  3. about injections: are filters important for ampuled drugs?

    epiphany replied to epiphany's topic in General Nursing

    CRNAsoon - Thank you for

  4. about injections: are filters important for ampuled drugs?

    epiphany replied to epiphany's topic in General Nursing

    Thanks everyone, for your input. I am still not sure about the benefits of filters, because quite a few people I've asked don't use them in their workplace. A NP who has worked for 30 years told me...

  5. Home birth vs. hospital

    epiphany replied to rnmi2004's topic in Ob/Gyn

    But I guess you are one of those nurses who eat their young, as people say? I will do a few years in the field, as you suggest, after which, I resolve never have an arrogant and disrespectful...

  6. Home birth vs. hospital

    epiphany replied to rnmi2004's topic in Ob/Gyn

    Hmm. First, with all due respect, your views on woman's rights are obvious, yet it comes off a little lacking in empathy. Even if a woman can or want to make the right decision, doesn't she have to...

  7. Home birth vs. hospital

    epiphany replied to rnmi2004's topic in Ob/Gyn

    Fergus51, I don't agree that it's as simple as you say, that women have the autonomy to choose. In saying that, I think we are not seeing the forest for the trees. I think American women generally...

  8. Need advice on giving insulin shot.

    epiphany replied to epiphany's topic in General Nursing

    Okay, I'm going to try that! Follow up: I did it! It worked! Thank you

  9. Need advice on giving insulin shot.

    epiphany posted a topic in General Nursing

    I was giving 2 units of insulin to the pts (who happened to be obese), when I noticed that both times, when I retracted the needed, the insulin dribbled back out. I have never had this problem before...

  10. stupid questions on L&D nurses' function

    epiphany posted a topic in Ob/Gyn

    Hi! I'm a graduating from a BSN program next summer and want to eventually end up a midwife. These are my questions: 1. Does a nurse ever get to pelvic exams at all? 2. What is the function of the...

  11. stupid questions on L&D nurses' function

    epiphany replied to epiphany's topic in Ob/Gyn

    Smiling: Thank you for taking the time to provide me with a clear picture - exactly what I was looking for. Your info is so useful and much

  12. Changing needles prior IM injection

    epiphany replied to sharon holcombe's topic in General Nursing

    question 1: Don't we have to squirt the syringe after we put in a new needle to remove the air? question 2: If so, for drugs irritating to the skin, you cannot avoid a little droplet on the bevel...

  13. Nursing Model vs Medical Model

    epiphany replied to Salus's topic in General Nursing

    Dayray and Chris_at-Lucas, you make me so proud to be a nurse. On entering my final year, I've been struggling with this notion of the nurses' role. Not a lot of role models in school, I'm

  14. are CVL placements a horrible painful experience for pts?

    epiphany replied to epiphany's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    Thank you. I felt awful for how bad it was for the pt. Also, I neglected to say that this was performed first time by an intern, and even after a few unsuccessful tries, the instructor MD took over,...

  15. My externship is not going well

    epiphany replied to NP2BE's topic in General Nursing

    I am also doing my externship - (one more year to go for my BSN). My preceptor doesn't even touch the patient for his "assessment". He gives meds and then he "charts" according the previous shift....

  16. Help! IV not properly flushed..

    epiphany replied to epiphany's topic in Infusion, Intravenous

    That's exactly what I needed to know. Can you give me the link to that info

  17. Help! IV not properly flushed..

    epiphany replied to epiphany's topic in Infusion, Intravenous

    Thank you for you replies. Does anyone have first hand experience with the dangerous consequence of so much air going into the