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It doesn't happen often that we have insulin drips, mostly because we are primarily an oncology floor, but I have had a patient with an insulin drip with 3-4 other patients who also might be getting blood or on a heparin drip.

I'm sure I sometimes sound cranky about getting admits from EOD staff without intending to. A big problem with transfers between units in our hospital is that the EOD staff work a different shift than the rest of the floors, except ICU. While they ...

That goes WHERE?!?!?!

Be a duck, Be a duck.....

PITA Pain in the Arse

1. If it's wet or sticky and not yours, wear gloves. 2. Air goes in and out, blood goes round and round, any deviance is a problem. 3. All bleeding stops, eventually. 4. Nursing school really does not prepare you for the reality of nursing. 5. Yo...

YES!! The incontinent C-Diff missed my shoes.

Code Brown!

Take a deep breath.

Another issue, at least with my BCBS health insurance policy is that they won't cover "obesity related" charges. I went for my annual physical and because it was coded wrong, they didn't cover any of the visit because it was obesity related. Insura...

At the facility I work at, all of our yearly tests and CPR are due to be done during our birthday month. It makes it easier to remember when to have things complete rather than keep track of a bunch of random dates. You could do something like tha...

When I get my own port accessed or when I access a patient's port, I have them inhale and hold their breath. I feel like it helps to bring the port a little farther forward, plus it is a little more stabilized on the inside with the lungs expanded. ...

In my experience of having my port flushed, I definitely can taste the saline flushes but not the heparin flush. For the bed taste from the flush I either suck on wintergreen certs or chew gum, preferably cinnamon flavored. I didn't have luck with ...

We have a lot of falls on our inpatient oncology/renal dialysis unit as well. I've only been there 6 months, but we have yet to go a month without a fall, frequently we don't even get to double digits without a fall. We also do hourly rounding, and...

I am currently working on my BSN and I am working. I am a single, older student who is fortunate enough to have financial support from my parents. School has always come easy to me, but I found that I am only comfortable working 1 day/week and ever...

I start my BSN program next Monday and I am ordering a Littmann stethoscope. My Mom is a nurse and when I was talking to her about equipment, her only recommendation was that I should get a stethoscope that has a single tube rather than a double tub...

Thanks for the input. That's kind of the way I am too. I don't have a choice about purchasing the e-book. If I choose to purchase the printed version of the books, we still automatically get the e-book access. It costs more and is what I did this...

I am starting my first semester of my BSN program on the 20th of this month. Over the summer, my school did a lot of revamping of the nursing school and one of the major changes was a change to our textbooks. This is the first semester that they ha...

I hated to give up my EMT-B license when I came back to school to get my BSN because I know that I will never go through the training to get it back. Here in ND, if an RN works on an ambulance service, they are operating under their own medical lice...

Depends on your instructor. I actually got an email a few weeks ago from an instructors encouraging us to start reading now. As was posted before, check with your school's bookstore. They should have the books required for each course. I know wha...

I just turned 40 and am starting my BSN courses in a few weeks. It's definitely different being back in school at my age, but I find that except for being "Mom" to some of my classmates, they treat just like any other student in class. I feel like ...

I have a classmate that is starting nursing school with me in a few weeks. We have actually taken several courses together and study well together. We planned which sections of courses to take so that we can study together. Last semester we took t...

I can tell you that as a former EMT, if there was no signed order in front of me, I was legally obligated to perform all measures possible to save that patient, no matter what I was told. Just being told that there is a DNR, doesn't mean anything wi...