This is just my personal experiences, but I have to agree that part of the problem is primary care doctors directing pts to go to the ER for problems that should be handled in an office visit. I had...
I took an elective in the ER during school, paired with one of the ER nurses. I remember being very embarrassed and disappointed to have him tell me TOWARD THE END OF THE SESSION that I sit toomuch...
Another thing, now many of you guys actually INTERPRET the EKG? Like read the strip and interpret something other than brady or tachycardia? I suppose you have to be more specific about lead...
I've found that when a baby is on humidity the leads (and temp probe stickers) become horribly SATURATED with water. Yeah, they stick "okay" but they just look so dang nasty you end up changing the...
Mino, give it more time. I'm sure a lot of students just took the NCLEX recently since fall semesters just ended. Maybe that will cause the results to come later. I know it's hard. I only got 75...
We started playing with Vapotherms several months ago and we've seen some good results also. There is a reluctance on the part of the neos to put the babies on greater than 2L though. It's a rare...
Sometimes swiping the lead with an alcohol pad will get it to re-stick... SOMETIMES. It only works if they are not sticking because they have body oil and debris on them (of course if they're that...
Lead placement is pretty much an anything goes kind of thing in my unit. As long as they pick up a heart rate, they will show us a brady or tachycardia or SVT. That's about all we would know how to...
Isn't DNA testing expensive? On the rare occasion that we have a father that wants it we indicate that it can run thousands of dollars and then it's also expensive to change the birth certificate if...
We're even considering a study where we use 21% for resuscitation and go up in small increments if needed. We currently use blenders in resuscitations, but we start off at 100% and then wean down,...
No. Sometimes one of the postpartum nurses will float down to work NICU with the level 2 babies. They had to get a bit of special training to do so but they no longer even offer that training, so...
We use only alcohol for most venipunctures. If we are drawing a blood culture we use betadine and then alcohol. then we use water to take the rest of the betadine off after we draw the
You guys, I'm only 5 months pregnant and I'm already stressing about this. Can I have some opinions? My problem is that my husband does not want me to have my best friend in the delivery room but he...
I've always been a little surprised that in light of the euthanasia debate, you never really hear much about our practice of withdrawing nutrition and fluid. No, it's not actively injecting something...
OP here.. Well, I read your post, WhatToDo (I never have figured out how to quote other posts) and I understand what you are saying regarding equal vs. traditional partnerships. But I wouldn't...
We used to keep stock bottles of heparin flush in the med fridge for all to use for flushes. If we had a baby on vecuronium, that nurse would reconstitute an entire bottle and it would also stay in...