kainos

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1. Pre-employment exams (medication / med-surg)

   kainos replied to ciao_bella's topic in Med-Surg

   Don't forget to study pharm...

2. PICC removal

   kainos replied to agldragonRN's topic in General Nursing

   So would your boss have preferred you to dig through the sharps container looking for the PICC after the MD deposited it there???

3. Work hardening after injury

   kainos replied to SnowShoeRN's topic in General Nursing

   I have wondered about these types of cases also. It appears that there is often a not-so-subtle conflict of interest with employee/occupational health outfits. Their revenue is obviously tied to employers being happy with them and using their service...

4. NCLEX study review question

   kainos replied to delabeaux's topic in NCLEX

   Okay - you'll really want to read this... Metabolic acidosis actually causes a relative serum HYPERkalemia (not hypo). Read the section "General Physiologic and Metabolic Effects": http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/906440-overview#a0104 It also e...

5. NCLEX study review question

   kainos replied to delabeaux's topic in NCLEX

   Hmmm... I just had a peds clinical pt (12 yo male) who came in with DKA. He was hypokalemic (lowest was 2.4) and hypo- (not hyper) calcemic. Maybe that's just an anomaly - any thoughts? I think I remember my Mosby lab book suggesting that hypo occurs...

6. Oh those poor babies!

   kainos replied to handyrn's topic in General Nursing

   Our nursing school was SOOOO picky about exactly what needed to appear on the vaccination form: the name, address & phone # of the provider; the full signature (not just initials) of the licensed nurse along with credentials; FULL details of each...

7. Post-Mortem care, PLEASE realize it is a human being.

   kainos replied to demylenated's topic in General Nursing

   I know of a woman who was in a coma and was regularly handled in a very rough manner by a certain tech who changed her linens & repositioned the patient. During one of these rough handling sessions, the woman awoke enough to plant her first firml...

8. AHHHH ACLS course problem!! I don't know what to do!

   kainos replied to nurseypoo87's topic in General Nursing

   Wouldn't it be nice if nursing schools devoted a little less time to NANDA scrabble and PC social studies topics and a little more time to useful stuff like reading ECGs?

9. What is fecal texture?

   kainos replied to kainos's topic in General Nursing

   I totally want to post that Bristol chart in our break room!

10. What is fecal texture?

    kainos replied to kainos's topic in General Nursing

    No corn-laden option yet, but maybe I'll suggest that in our next staff meeting. Perhaps we should have a numerical corn density rating to accompany that (kernels per gram)?

11. What is fecal texture?

    kainos posted a topic in General Nursing

    I was charting a BM in our computerized charting & it asks me (from a drop-down menu) what the "texture" of the BM was. There were options like hard, soft, liquid, etc. One of the options for texture was "fecal." Can anyone describe what a fecal-...