kathys76

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1. KVO rate

   kathys76 posted a topic in Infusion

   I was asked this morning if KVO and/or TKO rates are still acceptable abbreviations by JCAHO. I hadn't heard that they were not.....does anyone know for sure and what standard applies to this? Also, we use 30ml/hr as a KVO rate. Is this accurate? I c...

2. Power injecting thru cental lines

   kathys76 replied to radnurse2001's topic in Infusion

   Thank you very much for the help and info from PICC ACE and AUGIGI! Got a meeting the Standards Committee this week and I think we're going to start using these ports by next week. I'll let you know how things go..... All we can do now is hope these...

3. Power injecting thru cental lines

   kathys76 replied to radnurse2001's topic in Infusion

   Thanks for the info . We've used some of the PICCs and haven't had any problems so far. My concern is with the new port-a-cath. Since it's only been available since July and there's no clinical trial data.....I'd like to know if anyone's had any pro...

4. Power injecting thru cental lines

   kathys76 replied to radnurse2001's topic in Infusion

   I also need some help in this area. Bard came out with the PowerPort in July of this year. Not a great deal of info out there to let you know if these are all they're "advertised" to be! I have in writing that there were no clinical trials.....only F...

5. Orders from a PA not co-signed by MD

   kathys76 replied to kathys76's topic in General Nursing

   My concern stems from (and maybe I didn't make this clear in the original post) the hospital's policy states that the PA should write the covering physician's name and then theirs on the order. If we're not in compliance with hospital policy and give...

6. Orders from a PA not co-signed by MD

   kathys76 posted a topic in General Nursing

   Can anyone share their hospital's policy on PAs writing orders? For years (and I've been around for 20 of those) our policy has been that the PA writes orders like they've been in direct contact with the MD - i.e Dr. Brown/T. Hall, PA. The covering ...

7. Skechers...WE DID IT!!!

   kathys76 replied to ragingmomster's topic in Activism

   Even though they FINALLY pulled the campaign, I'm still not buying any of their shoes! I still don't understand a company with a "Marketing Dept" that thought it was okay to put those kinds of ads out in the first place!

8. "Felt Distress" assessment tool

   kathys76 replied to kathys76's topic in Psychiatric

   hi StuPer and thanks so much for some direction. Of course I got so excited that I went right to that web site and searched everything they had. It seems the only thing that they don't have is the "Felt Distress" assessment tool. I did e-mail the com...

9. "Felt Distress" assessment tool

   kathys76 replied to kathys76's topic in Psychiatric

   Thanks for trying to help. This is a one-page assessment of "feelings" reported by the patient. They circle numbers from zero to four under a Likert scale that ranges from Not Bothered to Extremely Bothered. The most that I have been able to find out...

10. "Felt Distress" assessment tool

    kathys76 posted a topic in Psychiatric

    I need some expertise from the psych nurses please. I'm a Med-Surg CNS and have been given an assignment that involves a PI project on the Felt Distress tool used on our Behavioral Health Care unit. Can anyone direct me to a source (book, journal, a...