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Is there a hospital in Dallas that refuses to hire nurses that test positive for nicotine? Im all for not smoking but as a term of employment?? Where will it stop? Elevated Cholesterol... Genetic screening... Its getting out of hand. Or is it just me...

and did i mention those of us who wear corrective lenses... or walk with a limp or do not have a daily BM? all reasons that an employer could refuse to hire a good nurse. Forgive me for posting the question

and when u find ur self working all alone dont whine. Those of us in the real world will be working somewhere that understands the real world... just me

im sure your eating a double bacon cheeseburger as you read this. I wonder if they will fire me for speeding a little on the way to work when im on call. Does your family have a history of cvd or diabetes?? ur next as we promote health. Do u wear sun...

thats why im calling report... they need to have a bm. discharge criteria for pacu

Missing a little. Have worked with surgeons that used no local... pt wakes up in pacu miserable.... use local= much less narcs needed. I would never use a doc that did not use local.

Denton presby

Give aureus medical a call. they have been good to me

Dont be afraid to ask for more. housing counts. but gas, food...

Attitudes changing on propofol yet??

Great post tridil2000. Well put. I,m sure you will NOT be popular on this thread for long. Hang in there.

rn29306. I would rather suck it up and take care of my patients if 2, 5, or 3 more years of school would close my eyes to the rest of the world. There is an old saying about an ostrich but I will not get into it here. Open your eyes and look at the n...

We have been following the info and direction offered at drnaps.org. It is great to find a site where you are not threatened with legal action and called unsafe cowboys pushing anything, anywhere... We too use propofol for thousands of cases a year a...

In Oklahoma the RN can "delegate" to the LPN tasks that the RN feels the LPN is compotent in. At our facility starting IVs has never been a question. They are checked off in orientation and if they are not comfortable, we send them to endoscopy to be...

Hang in there guys. Our BON recently had a review of our practice act and RN administered propofol for endo... THEIR anesthesiologist stopped the rebuttal being offered by the BON exec after our Docs presented their data, and wanted to review our dat...

Most abstracts, discussions, arguments... are biased based on your experience. Some of these "articles" have thousands of procedures done with propofol and no negative outcomes...At some point we have to look at the big picture and total number of po...

I hope most of the participants from the gastroenterology thread do not find this nice little discussion. According to some, any RN who pushes Dip is guilty of capital murder and threatened with legal action if they discover your name...really ugly s...

Robrn, Thanks for having a open mind on the issue. The "tribal mentality" may start to weaken soon as more people become aware of the issue.

Has anyone seen the AHA guideline changes: BLS, 30-2 compression to ventilation ACLS, 1 shock then 2 minutes of CPR then the 2nd shock How could the science have been that far off to have changes this drastic over 4 years???

Anybody doing any research on this or does the "tribal mentality" still hold true? We can't do it because we never have??? Still see posts where a lot of patients have survived propofol admin by a damn nurse.

Thanks misschelei, Just to clarify for me....Our standard "premix" dopamine is 1600mcg/ml. Is there more potential for error by using 2 different concentrations for peds vs adults...in your opinion?? We are a small hospital (150 beds) and our pedi nu...

The position statements are interesting. Will we ever see one that does not mention "billing issues"? That ruins the validity of the evidence for me. Is it safe or is it not or is it a turf war over who gets paid? Or some combination of all 3?

Same reply. NONE of the critical care docs I know have been anesthesia providers. I wonder if the ISMP or anyone has numbers of deaths r/t all drugs given...Anesthesia may need to give all sedating drugs. I am pretty sure we have needed airway contro...

God Bless anesthesiologists. Without whom, the world would no longer turn. It does sound like we have gone past pt safety and entered into some sort of turf/ego thing. Sound off any way you need to on the board but stop and take a good look deep insi...

I know that ER and critical care docs all over the world will be glad to hear this. DUH.