PreemieNurse

I have been a NICU nurse my entire nursing career...since the 70s. It's a wonderful place to work, and many nurses who work there do not leave. We have seen many ICU nurses transfer down to the NICU because they are tired of moving heavy patients aro...

Hello...I would like your feedback on the way you deal with gastric residual at your facility. I am an educator and recently I overheard one of the other educators telling her students that when checking gastric residual from a feeding and the residu...

thank you rkitty! I appreciate your info! Yes I am looking for research-based procedures ideally!

Carol we return residuals because of the electrolytes and gastric enzymes found in residuals. Usually the residual is just undigested feeding. Yes I know it seems gross but I believe it's a necessity to keep F & E balance. And yes, always a ster...

thank you! That's what I wanted to know...so those of you who said you would put it in a clean cup...one more question...you said you would return it...so how? Do you attach the syringe barrel and let it run in by gravity? Funny how student texts tel...

Congratulations on your years as a cancer survivor!! That's wonderful!! And kudos for following your dream of becoming a nurse...we need nurses with your dedication~ as for your question...employers are not permitted to ask you about your health iss...

Carol I don't understand the idea of flushing and not having to check for residual.. can you explain the correlation? The texts still advise to check for residual. This is in a procedure associated for giving NG meds (again, remember this is a skills...

And like anything else in nursing practice, it must be backed up by the research...best practices!

Check for residual to assess for tolerance and digestion of tube feedings. Keep in mind that I am in a skills lab and we do not teach specific to any facility...we are merely teaching skills and we follow the descriptions found in their texts. Each f...

Originally Posted by awsmfun This is why every nursing student needs to work as a CNA before they apply to nursing school. Then they would really know what being an RN really involves! What ever happened to this requirement? No wonder so many b...

That is what is being practiced in this area. The 3cc syringes exert too much PSI on the tip of the catheter and can actually tear the tip off, causing it to end up in the circulation. Not a good thing. 10cc much lower PSI, which is why they are bein...

Hi folks, need your input. I am an instructor in a nursing program and there seems to be some confusion concerning size of syringe when giving a med through a central/PICC line. 10 cc we know if you are using capped line...but what if you are adminis...

Thank you!! Poor students are so confused because we teach them a certain way in the lab...they get to clinicals and each instructor is different...because they want their students to function the way that THEY practice. This ends up with potentially...

I teach nursing education and some questions have come up regarding what the students are learning regarding IV med administration. I am looking for any journal articles or Best Practice information... IV push...on a continuous IV.... kink tubing whi...

Just the regular UOP...you can type that in the facebook search and it will pull it up. I also am part of the alumnae group, but the basic UOP seems to have a lot of current students... that might be the most helpful to you...

Team projects are pretty good... I have to be honest, you get good people and you get lazy people...but I had better success with teams at the MSN level. At the BSN level I think there was a lot of catfighting and I think people were just not cut out...

Hi Gigi... I did UOP for both BSN and MSN... once I got going I went all the way... I would not have done school any other way... I LOVED the online format... are you on Facebook? There is a UOP application there too that people are "fans" so you ca...

Not contaminated, but old. Why are we teaching backpriming to our students when it doesn't seem all that important if we're not doing it when hanging PB on a primary line. This just goes against my beliefs (it takes 20 ml to flush a primary line an...

Hi everyone, I have a question for you all. I teach in an ADN program in the skills lab. We teach IVPB via the flush bag and the backpriming into the old bag thing...if pt has a hepwell... We just heard that an area hospital is not permitting the use...

Bec, are you talking about a gravity flow or an IV on pump? If you are hanging a brand new PB to an existing line on a pump (or gravity, doesn't matter) attach secondary tubing to PB bag. Using needleless port closest to IV bag on primary line (above...

Thank you. This is what I am trying to understand...but excuse my ignorance and tell me what a reseal is... so you are saying the old med remains in the line and is used when the new bag is spiked? Even though it may be an every 8 or 12 hour med...i...

Good luck to you! It does get burdensome after a bit (as ALL schools do!) but I wouldn't have done my BSN and MSN any other way. Overall I am very pleased with UOP. I am teaching in an ADN program and very happy I made the switch from bedside. I love...

So Bryan, how did you do in the Financial class? I hated most every minute of it...although I did learn a few things (like I won't be going on for my MBA anytime soon~) I got an A and happy for that! I am taking a 3 week break and then on to the com...

It sounds like your class is slightly different regarding assignments. My team did a ppt on EBP (there was a group of topics to choose from) and I chose teen pregnancy for my paper. I have heard of classes being slightly different from each other as ...

Nurse 79, my reply was for you~