UrbanHealthRN BSN, RN

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    Nurse Family Partnership

    UrbanHealthRN replied to Britrn04's topic in Public, Community Health

    I don't work for NFP, but I do work for a state-funded, short-term home visiting program for pregnant moms and young children. Part of my job involves making lots of referrals for families, including...
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    What was your worst shift ever?

    UrbanHealthRN replied to Isakolistic's topic in General Nursing

    Night shift, pedi med/surg, my first year of nursing. One of my patients was a very recent transfer from the ICU- a 200 lb preteen girl who had significant head trauma after being hit by a car, was...
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    Question About Med Management for NAS

    UrbanHealthRN posted a topic in General Nursing

    Quick background about myself: RN for seven years, pediatrics the whole time. Started in the local pedi hospital, switched to community health center work, now doing home visiting with families of...
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    Question About Med Management for NAS

    UrbanHealthRN replied to UrbanHealthRN's topic in General Nursing

    The funny thing is, this is a foster family that has extensive history of caring for medically needy/fragile children, including NAS infants. However, this baby was discharged to the foster parents...
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    Santa Came Just In Time

    UrbanHealthRN posted a topic in General Nursing

    Folks, get the kleenex for this one. I just saw this in the news today, and oh boy, what a story for Christmas. Working in pediatrics, this definitely hit home, but I think anyone could appreciate the...
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    Santa Came Just In Time

    UrbanHealthRN replied to UrbanHealthRN's topic in General Nursing

    I just checked online for updates as well, and nobody has been able to verify this story yet, though this man has definitely been Santa before. Not sure why he would want to make this particular story...
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    Santa Came Just In Time

    UrbanHealthRN replied to UrbanHealthRN's topic in General Nursing

    Sam Venable: Santa grants a final wish Folks, get out the kleenex for this one. A truly touching story about one little boy's Christmas experience this year. Maybe because I work in pediatrics, the...
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    Jobs in nursing in social justice

    UrbanHealthRN replied to michaelaellie's topic in General Nursing

    Loving this thread right now! OP, there is so much out there in the world of social justice and activism that fits into nursing perfectly. My specialty in nursing is pediatrics, so after working for a...
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    Bad day giving vaccines

    UrbanHealthRN replied to barlas's topic in Patient Medications

    This has happened to me too- both the child getting free from a hold (can happen a lot) and the bleeding you described (which only ever happened to me once, and I bet this won't happen to you again...
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    Lice, I know, old news. But need opinions!

    UrbanHealthRN replied to Schoolnursesrock1's topic in School

    Those good ol' head lice! Not a school nurse, but I've dealt with this problem from the other end- the pediatrician's office. Perhaps you could put in a call to their doctor and give the heads up...
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    Any thoughts of USA infant mortality rate

    UrbanHealthRN replied to nursingaround1's topic in General Nursing

    Going back to the original post, I would just like to clarify the #169 ranking. #169 means that 168 countries are currently worse off for infant mortality than the U.S., and 55 countries are better...
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    (Lack of) Mental Healthcare and What To Do?

    UrbanHealthRN posted a topic in Health, Stress Management

    Hello All! So just as quick introduction, I've been a nurse for about 4 years, working in pediatrics the entire time. For the last two years, I've been working in one of the primary care clinics in my...
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    10 minutes and no emergency meds for seizure

    UrbanHealthRN replied to Vtachy1's topic in School

    You say that mom won't allow you to speak with her son's neurologist, but I think if this were me I'd disregard that a little. You are taking orders from this doctor about the boy's seizure plan. If...
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    Pediatric Straight Catheterizations

    UrbanHealthRN replied to JVoEDrn's topic in Pediatric

    Pedi Nurse here! Right now I work at a clinic and we do plenty of straight caths in our pedi department. I just had a particularly stressful cath last week because the poor parents were balls of...