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begalli

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  1. ++ Job Description!! please dont IGNORE

    begalli replied to brunette_moi's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    NRSKarenRN makes a very good point about searching the www for the specific info you're looking for. Here's one I Googled:...

  2. Futile Care. Dead is dead.

    begalli replied to Trauma-tizedRN's topic in General Nursing

    Trauma-tizedRN, and the rest of you....I sure wish my family had nurses such as yourselves advocating for us when my dad and my family were going through what we recently went through. I can relate to...

  3. Burn survivor now burn nurse?

    begalli replied to saskrn's topic in Burn

    I know a nurse manager of a burn unit who herself suffered burns over a great percentage of her body when she was 7 years old. She lives with dramatic scaring of her face, neck, arms, hands, and legs...

  4. Lowest Blood pH

    begalli replied to EricTAMUCC-BSN's topic in MICU, SICU

    I know we've had those in the 6.something range but I have never personally seen this. This is one of my favorite things to fix...a respiratory alk/acidosis. It's so rewarding after a couple of RN...

  5. Poor America doles our substandard social policy

    begalli replied to Larry's topic in General Nursing

    yea,

  6. staffing ratio CTICU

    begalli replied to byfaithbrampton's topic in CCU, Coronary, Cardiac

    My CTICU 1:2 or 1:1 depending on acuity.

  7. Poor America doles our substandard social policy

    begalli replied to Larry's topic in General Nursing

    Please tell me you're joking? Children? Men and women victims of layoffs due to a poor economy? Not

  8. Poor America doles our substandard social policy

    begalli replied to Larry's topic in General Nursing

    kmchugh- You're harsh tone in response to my post is offensive. Did I say somewhere that I was in favor of "socialized" healthcare in the US. Wait, let me answer...no I did not. If this country ever...

  9. Poor America doles our substandard social policy

    begalli replied to Larry's topic in General Nursing

    And there you go Larry. At least one answer to your question "how does this affect nursing

  10. Poor America doles our substandard social policy

    begalli replied to Larry's topic in General Nursing

    42 million 64 million 82 million Or whatever. The mere fact that even one man, woman or child in this great country goes without health insurance is disgusting. What's just as disgusting is that those...

  11. New series Lifeline:The Nursing Diaries on Discovery Health channel starts Nov 7th,04

    begalli replied to HappyNurse2005's topic in General Nursing

    I was not as impressed with the second installment of this series. Not that the nurses weren't awesome, but we must get away from the image that the RN role is that of being the nuturer of our...

  12. Poor America doles our substandard social policy

    begalli replied to Larry's topic in General Nursing

    Sadly and embarrassingly, it is a fact.Uh huh, and look at this: http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/hexpense.htm It's about the big guy making the money in this country. Not about the people who really...

  13. "where" are the "magnet hospitals PLEASE?

    begalli replied to nursegoodlove's topic in General Nursing

    http://www.nursingworld.org/ancc/magnet/facilities.html

  14. freaking out about after graduation

    begalli replied to readingRN's topic in General Nursing

    Congratulations on your completion of nursing school!! What you are feeling is completely normal. Just remember that there is no way that you will know everything right away and also remember that the...

  15. Does anyone ever use the Live Chat Room???

    begalli replied to slinkeecat's topic in General Nursing

    KRVRN - Scroll to the very top of the webiste page. Across the top you will see several links (below your browser's toolbar). The link to Live Chat is up

  16. Your perception of student nurses when they visit your hospital?

    begalli replied to avery's topic in General Nursing

    When I was a student we were required to carry student nurse malpractice insurance. It was provided through the school at a cost of $25 per

  17. What do you use to monitor q 1-2h bedside blood sugars?

    begalli replied to tracylong's topic in MICU, SICU

    We use the "VAMP" system on our arterial lines for all blood draws. It's good because it's a closed, needleless system that enables us to conserve blood by literally taking just a drop for a bg and...

  18. What NOT to say

    begalli replied to RN92's topic in General Nursing

    We had an online guestbook through the funeral home for my dad for people to sign if they wished. I will always cherish this message to my family from my dad's occupational therapist. Isn't that...

  19. What NOT to say

    begalli replied to RN92's topic in General Nursing

    I just lost my dad a couple of weeks ago (actually, quite a tragic 4 month long story from beginning to end). I've been burying myself in the internet since my return from home Sunday (from another...

  20. codeblog....

    begalli replied to KBnursestudent's topic in General Nursing

    Great site, Great stories! The life that we've chosen in health care, whether it's in the role of and RN, MD, Nurse's Aide, or something else, surely has very specific stories that only we can relate...

  21. student nurse question!

    begalli replied to sashann's topic in General Nursing

    Soon2BNurse I talked with my daughter about this thread tonite. She's an American Red Cross CPR instructor. A couple of years ago the ARC changed the way they instruct CPR to standardize it with the...

  22. New series Lifeline:The Nursing Diaries on Discovery Health channel starts Nov 7th,04

    begalli replied to HappyNurse2005's topic in General Nursing

    I taped it while watching it. I work in a cardiothoracic surgery ICU. When I saw the first patient was in a CTICU, I thought woo hoo here we go! Turned out that it was an BKA due to PVD. I would have...

  23. student nurse question!

    begalli replied to sashann's topic in General Nursing

    adults: http://depts.washington.edu/learncpr/quickcpr.html children 1-8 http://depts.washington.edu/learncpr/childrencpr.html infants http://depts.washington.edu/learncpr/infantcpr.html (doesn't...

  24. RN to pt ratio @ your hospital?

    begalli replied to plumrn's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    I don't believe that Au-nuld would let this law change....yet. He supports the ratio law.The whole purpose of this ratio thing was to allow nurses to do nursing and for safer patient care....

  25. student nurse question!

    begalli replied to sashann's topic in General Nursing

    There are no "dumb" questions, ever (either now or later). Actually in basic CPR, if you're by yourself, you've established unresponsivemness, and it's an adult (or >8 yrs old), you run to call...