WSU_Ally_RN BSN, RN

I just started a new job, and most of the nurses I work with have these super cute personalized name tags... They have their first name and RN or LPN in big cutsey font, with a picture of a nurse doing something "nursey" (charting, standing by a pt, ...

AllMed Catalog :: Diagnostics :: Stethoscopes :: Trimline SafeSEAL® Replacement Parts SafeSEAL Soft Diaphragm Those are the only 2 links I can find... not sure where the company's are from. Do you have a stethoscope you must use them with? Or just ...

I think it depends on who your patient population mostly is. I work in a PICU and we take pt's from birth to death, any and all ages. If they have a congenital or chronic disease of childhood they will come see us forever. I use my adult sized scope ...

Since you're still in nursing school, I'd caution against a specifically pediatric stethoscope... what if you graduate and can't find a peds job? I hear they are getting hard to come by. A pediatric scope is just too small to use with large adults. ...

I always found when I had to wear whites that skin toned undies made even the thinnest scrubs virtually un-see through. I'd wear white, and bam, you could totally see them.

Cor-triatriatum?

I listen for "bears" when I listen with my stethoscope and I "measure your muscles" when I take your BP :) I totally agree with the prior poster, depending on my kiddo's age and maturity level depends on how I describe what I do.

I work at Akron Children's and my manager just hired a slew of new grads... There are still many RN positions posted on our website. There isn't a "new grad program" per se, but I'm pretty sure all the units hire new grads with an extensive orientati...

a brand... I think their website is aviatorscrubs.com

what about aviator scrubs?? they have lots of pockets and look pretty manly to me, even in purple :)

The faces scale isn't for you to interpret what their pain APPEARS to be, it's for you to show your patient and have them pick how their face feels with their pain... I use this all the time with my preschoolers, I show them the scale and they point ...

I'll be the third to recommend and ultrascope! They are much more affordable than a Littmann. I have a Littmann Cardiology III and a pediatric sized ultrascope. I work primarily with kids with congenital heart defects in a PICU, both pre and post sur...

No, Ohio's renewal was this year. I think you had to be renewed by July 31.

I'm an Ohioan too... just like Meriwhen said, you just need to make sure you hold on to that CEU certificate for I think 7 years... CEU's are basically an honor system until you get audited, which I think they can go back 6 or 7 years, and you better...

That sounds kinda scary... kids on continuous can go bad so quick! Anyone on continuous at my hospital buys a bed in the PICU! (We do not have a step down unit.) I don't take care of a lot of asthmatics, but I think they have to be getting albuterol ...

There is a book called "Walk On Water" about Dr. Mee and the congenital heart program at the Cleveland Clinic. I read it last summer when I started taking care of our CHD babies... I really enjoyed it. It follows some families and babies there throug...

Also, PALS only works until the kid tops out at adult dosage's per their weight. After that, we use ACLS. I think PALS classifies a child as those under 8. I know in my PICU most of our patient population is under that 8 year mark, but we still get o...

Yep, it's called hippus... I've seen it a few times in my carreer... here's a wikipedia article about it :) Hippus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia From what our doc's tell us, its usually a normal finding, they never seem to be concerned when I fi...

I'm not sure about the first pair, but I wore the second pair my first year of nursing, and I probably went through 4 pairs that year. They wear out real quick. Are there any good shoe stores in your area that you can actually go try on shoes at? I b...

I work at a peds hospital... anytime anything we put in one of our kiddos comes out and it wasn't intended to come out yet, we have to write up an incident report. We also have a "huddle "with the attending or NP and charge Rn as to why it happened a...

I tried to take it, but it keeps giving me an error, saying #5 needs an answer. I tried to fill in the "other" box, but then get the same error again...

Airwayguru, I've had mine for two years now, and I am not gentle with it at all! It gets dropped probably nightly, and still looks as good as the day I got it! I have no worries that it might crack...

I own both a pediatric ultrascope and a littmann cardio III. I work with peds, and a majority of them are cardiac kids that have murmers and other funky heart sounds. I can hear everything with my ultrascope, sometimes even better, that I can hear wi...

When I started at my Peds hospital I received the TDaP booster since I couldn't remember when I had my last tetanus shot. If I remember correctly, the employee health nurse told me that since I also hadn't had a pertussis booster ever that I would ge...

Hi my allnurses friends :) I admitted a stable, extubated post op ASD repair yesterday afternoon. Pt's first K level was 3.1. Over the course of 5 hours it rose to 5.9 with no extra potassium being given except the 20 meq that was in the liter of her...