KaeliF

It depends on your facility's policy. Our policy is that intermittent infusions need tubing changes q24h.

I think after learning the different abnormals and what they sound like it's just a matter of experience. I'm a new nurse and I still have sometimes have trouble differentiating between really coarse crackles and rhonchi, but I have a lot less troubl...

I just started working nights a few weeks ago and I know exactly what you mean! I feel like I live to work. On the nights I'm off I can't call friends or go out and I feel very isolated, but forget trying to switch my sleeping schedule back and forth...

I don't have any advice for the prereq classes, but once you start your actual nursing classes the biggest thing I wish I would have known is to PAY ATTENTION TO THE BASICS. Trust me, the things you'll feel like are "common sense" tend to be what tri...

I'm a brand new nurse, been on my own for three weeks after a 1 month orientation. Out of three weeks I've only had lunch two of those days and used the restroom once. For me, I'm still so focused on trying to get everything done that usually don't e...

I am so sorry to hear that it sounds like a nightmare! I'm a new nurse too (a few weeks out of a 1 month orientation) and I cannot imagine that happening to me, we don't even take patients on drips on my floor. All I can say is from what I'm hearing ...

I know you need one before you can access any NEW central line or PICC or port, but if a patient is admitted with an old one do you still need the order before you can use it?

Yes, in my facility if we have to waste Lovenox they have us make SURE to create a new air bubble before administering the injection

Yea from what I've heard mostly psych nurses don't get a lot of skills practice but lets be honest that's all VERY easy to relearn. The only other thing I would consider is that if you go into any kind of specialty that's where your competence will d...

Well now I feel silly just went over my central line policy again and I found it. It doesn't say anything about needing an xray verification for an old line though, just the order.

I didn't read through the whole feed, so I'm sure a lot of others have posted things along the same lines as me, but I'd just like to say you didn't do anything wrong! I'm a new nurse too (been working for about 7 weeks, 1 mo of which was orientation...

I'm a new nurse (like, I've only worked one shift by myself new) and what I've understood up until now was that ANY surgical procedure meant the patient was a SCIP patient, but now I'm finding out that's not the case? So what exactly are the qualific...

Oh ok I figured it was a national thing. Thanks!

I'm glad it ended up only being a minor error, but next time you give an IM try aspirating first. We were taught this in school but I'm surprised to see that a lot of nurses don't do it, but that will let you know for sure if you're in the muscle BEF...

I'm a new nurse, I had my first lone shift last night (at my hospital you orient with another nurse for a month before you take patients by yourself) and I ended up being there a full TWO HOURS late charting and whatnot. I only had 6 patients, then o...

I'm a new nurse and one of my more experienced colleagues told me it was ok to take a blood pressure on an arm with a dialysis CVC, but I wasn't sure (so I didn't take it on that arm of course) I know this is a no-no for grafts and fistulas, whats t...

Hi! I am a graduate nurse that just got hired to a post-surgical floor. No one has EVER been able to give me a straight answer to the question; how fast do I run blood after the initial 15 minutes? The protocol at my hospital is 120ml/hr for the firs...

I'm taking my NCLEX in 2 days (yikes!) and I've been using various different books I've borrowed from friends to study. While going through one of them I found a chart that said it is ok to give up to 2ml in the deltoid, 3ml for the ventrogluteal, an...

Thanks! You're probably right, real world nursing and the NCLEX tend to disagree :)

Oh yea I meant WITHIN four hours.Thanks, I've hung blood before in my clinical rotations but was never actually was there to see it finish, I didn't realize there was so little in the bag! I guess keeping it at 120mls WOULD work. The reason that I ha...