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    CNA program in S FL

    UM Review RN replied to Miwila's topic in Florida Nursing

    Try your local Red Cross or your local community college. Good
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    what would be your 1st intervention for pt aspirating?

    UM Review RN replied to IngyRN's topic in General Nursing

    Maintain airway, HOB up, listen to breath sounds, take O2 sat, call Resp. therapy, suction if necessary, call doc, get stat CXR order, IV fluids, and antibiotic. NPO till after video swallow study, of...
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    MDs you love?

    UM Review RN replied to SaraO'Hara's topic in General Nursing

    Dr. P (ID doc) is amazing! I was changing a heavy C. Diff patient by myself and Dr. P stayed to help. He was wonderful to work with and I tell everyone about it -- a few of the other nurses guessed...
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    Has any dr tried to get you to do something outside of your scope?

    UM Review RN replied to NurseyPoo7's topic in General Nursing

    Lots of times a doc will order something that's not appropriate for our unit -- for instance, IV Labetolol. One doc wanted to scope a patient at bedside and ordered me to start giving Versed. I...
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    CNA Starting Wages - Hospitals in Tampa Bay

    UM Review RN replied to cc33702's topic in Florida Nursing

    I know a tech who works at Plant. She said that CNAs start at around 8.80/hr and PCTs might start at 11.00/hr or better, depending on their experience. She also said that some of her coworkers have...
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    Nurses who don't seem to get it....

    UM Review RN replied to KaroSnowQueen's topic in General Nursing

    I'm rather surprised that you didn't have a PCA. I thought most ortho patients got one for the first couple of days. I know what you mean by the pain of spasms. There I was, chest tubes front and back...
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    Jcaho

    UM Review RN replied to TraciRN's topic in General Nursing

    Joint Commission sets the standards for hospitals, derived from evidence-based patient practice. As much as I complain about the paperwork that's generated, I would not work in a hospital that was not...
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    Different Stress Relievers, Which Would You Choose?

    UM Review RN replied to NurseJamesMcCoy's topic in Health, Stress Management

    I'll be honest. Forgive me if I'm wrong, but this thread is starting to sound a bit like a sales promotion. So before this thread goes that way, I'm going to interject a note for your consideration...
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    Removal of Central Venous Catheter?

    UM Review RN replied to Finally2008's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    At our facility, we do pulls PICCs, but for a true central line, I believe the docs have to do that. Other facilities may have different policies. I'd be interested in seeing them
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    chest tubes

    UM Review RN replied to deadlydevil's topic in CCU, Coronary, Cardiac

    I think that falls into the realm of the doc's diagnosis and treatment, missej2002. You might ask him what the next step in treatment would be if the CT is not working to expand the lung. Most docs...
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    Effects of illegal drugs

    UM Review RN replied to NurseyPoo7's topic in General Nursing

    Interesting article on crystal meth here, but if you Google crystal meth or methamphetamine, please be aware that some of the photos are pretty shocking....
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    Greatest Nursing Item You Ever Bought

    UM Review RN replied to Sponkie's topic in First Year After Licensure

    My Palm Tx. Keeps me organized -- calendar, alarm clock aware -- I know how much I have in the bank with my checkbook program, secure -- I save all my IDs and passowords to my encrypted ID program,...
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    NURSES & DOCTORS - to flirt or not to flirt

    UM Review RN replied to AnnaSL's topic in General Nursing

    Too happily married here to be tempted to flirt. Especially with a doc. My job is work, not
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    What do you appreciate about another nurse's charting?

    UM Review RN replied to soffy's topic in General Nursing

    I'm not being facetious when I say this: Her handwriting! It's so legible!! I envy anyone who can write so that any normal person can read it -- I've tried to improve my handwriting for years and have...
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    Ever pull the wrong med from the right cubie in the Pyxis?

    UM Review RN replied to UM Review RN's topic in General Nursing

    Some of us don't have the scan systems in place
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    Re: Patient Care Assistant, while in nursing school

    UM Review RN posted a topic in Florida Nursing

    I vote to do Unit Secretary because you'll see the orders for the patient conditions more frequently and that's what you need to know as a nurse. PCT's don't usually get to see that. They learn how to...
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    Re: Patient Care Assistant, while in nursing school

    UM Review RN replied to KdnRN2B's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    I vote to do Unit Secretary because you'll see the orders for the patient conditions more frequently and that's what you need to know as a nurse. PCT's don't usually get to see that. They learn how to...
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    What would you do for this patient?

    UM Review RN posted a topic in CCU, Coronary, Cardiac

    Just curious. What would you do for a patient who was a hemodialysis patient, tended to run SBP in the 100's, but was still a/o X 3 with a SBP like the high 60's to low 70's, who also was in ST w/...
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    which med do I give first

    UM Review RN replied to kbkbajs's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    In the real world, you're going to pull all 3 of those meds from the same Pyxis. It'd be silly to go back and forth three times. I always hang the IV first because I was taught to actually watch...
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    which med do I give first

    UM Review RN replied to kbkbajs's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    Oops, just realized that the med is codeine, not a codeine-based cough syrup. That's because no one would prescribe JUST codeine, it usually comes combined with Tylenol, which equals a Tylenol #3. Or...
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    which med do I give first

    UM Review RN replied to kbkbajs's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    This is why I hate questions like that. In the real world, you'd make sure blood cultures were done, then pull all three meds. You'd hang the Zithromax, then give the Tylenol and last, give the cough...
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    Where would you move?

    UM Review RN replied to Nurse__Mary's topic in General Nursing

    *sigh* I know, I know, Florida does have its problems, but if I really had to choose, I'd move a tad uphill to get out of the flood zone I'm in and stay right here. I just couldn't stand the idea of...
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    Suesquatch, GN

    UM Review RN replied to SuesquatchRN's topic in Online Distance Learning

    [color=olive]congratulations,
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    White scrubs...you have got to be kidding!

    UM Review RN replied to abbaking's topic in Men in Nursing

    My opinion on whites: https://allnurses.com/forums/f118/whites-colored-scrubs-232698.html
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    Any others trying to quit smoking?

    UM Review RN replied to AddyRN07's topic in Health, Stress Management

    Don't forget to check out the American Lung Association's Quit program: