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  1. peripheral IVs

    sweetieann replied to sweetieann's topic in General Nursing

    i should have added: i meant with say, a peripheral heplock? ie-patient has IV push med due, you aspriate for blood return prior to giving and get no return. Do you still flush annd if no pain,...

  2. std question

    sweetieann posted a topic in Infectious Disease

    I have a question about urine STD tests. They tell you to wait 1-2 hours before urinating before collecting sample or to use first morning void. Do you think this is really necessary? Aren't those...

  3. std question

    sweetieann posted a topic in Public, Community Health

    I have a question about urine STD tests. They tell you to wait 1-2 hours before urinating before collecting sample or to use first morning void. Do you think this is really necessary? Aren't those...

  4. Paranoid and just had to call work...

    sweetieann replied to penny77's topic in General Nursing

    used to do this at LEAST once a week... better safe than sorry, don't feel bad!

  5. What's it like working with people with eating disorders?

    sweetieann replied to Nickytoto's topic in Psychiatric

    sorry this response is a bit late. i actually work on an eating disorders floor in a locked psychiatric facility. it us a 20 bed unit (10 adult beds, 10 kid beds), but often we also have at least a...

  6. resume question

    sweetieann posted a topic in General Nursing

    Ok, here's the scenario: After graduating nursing school, I started on a peds oncology floor for, let's call it, Healthsystem A. After about 2 months (wasn't even done with orientation yet), I...

  7. Use of the nicotine patch

    sweetieann replied to Phillygryl's topic in General Nursing

    i called our pharmacy about this awhile back. They advised the patient not to smoke while wearing the patch (although it wouldn't really be that harmful), but said no big deal if the patch is applied...

  8. shift work

    sweetieann posted a topic in General Nursing

    I work 5 8-hour shifts/week. here is a typical schedule: Monday-day light (7am-3:30 pm) Tuesday-night shift (11:15pm-7:15am) Wednesday- "off" (but I come hoem from night shift and sleep) Thursday and...

  9. piggybacking?

    sweetieann posted a topic in General Nursing

    if you just run and antibiotic straight (say they have no maintenance fluid) how would you make sure the ABX is out of the line and in to the patient (there's no hub near the spike to attach NSS and...

  10. piggybacking?

    sweetieann replied to sweetieann's topic in General Nursing

    thanks for your reply! I am just curious though, if after the ABX is done infusing and I flush the hub with say, 10 cc NSS, what about the ABX that is left in the IV line? Won't it remain there and...

  11. piggybacking?

    sweetieann replied to sweetieann's topic in General Nursing

    if you just run and antibiotic straight (say they have no maintenance fluid) how would you make sure the ABX is out of the line and in to the patient (there's no hub near the spike to attach NSS and...

  12. tubes

    sweetieann posted a topic in General Nursing

    If a patient has a newly inserted PEG tube, after flushing it, is it normal for there to be some very thin watery liquid with a yellow-green tint (doesn't look purulent). Like as in gastric juices?...

  13. drug safety?

    sweetieann posted a topic in General Nursing

    If a pt is on INH and rifampin and spikes a fever that is first treated with motrin without a good drop in temp, is it ok to give oen dose of tylenol? i know tylenol can be hard on the liver, but...

  14. on call?

    sweetieann posted a topic in General Nursing

    What exactly does it mean if a med is "on call" for a procedure? For example- a medication is "on call for ECT." Does the floor nurse administer this right before ECT, or would it be administered by...

  15. IV Abx?

    sweetieann posted a topic in General Nursing

    Quick question~ In my med surg rotations, IV antibiotics were always piggybacked with something (even if the person wasn't on maintenance fluids before). In the psych hospital I'm at anow, all the...

  16. blood in stool but...?

    sweetieann posted a topic in General Nursing

    So I had a patient with ulceratibe colitis. Had some frank bright red blood in stool. When I did the guiac, it was negative. That seems weird to me..if I saw the blood, wouldn't the guiac be positive?...

  17. injection question

    sweetieann posted a topic in General Nursing

    For a lidocaine injection (say, if someone is havign a splinter removed from under their nail), what needle size/gauge would you use for this intradermal injection?

  18. seizures

    sweetieann posted a topic in General Nursing

    Do you typically apply supplemental O2 (by nasal cannula to a patient DURING the

  19. picc line dressing change

    sweetieann replied to sweetieann's topic in General Nursing

    thanks for the response! i was wondrign about the extension tubing...like when the picc exists the skin there is a tub that the hub is attached to....does that extension tubing also need changed when...

  20. picc line dressing change

    sweetieann replied to sweetieann's topic in General Nursing

    thanks! i also had a question about extension and cap changes (i work in ap sych hospital, so we dotn see all this stuff alot)....who usually does the cap and extension tubing changes? a picc nurse or...

  21. help! new(er) grad questions

    sweetieann posted a topic in General Nursing

    I have a question egarding use of PRN medications. I work in psych (would have posted there, but don't seem to get many responses). I'm having a hard time with the difference between administering a...

  22. help! CPR question

    sweetieann posted a topic in General Nursing

    If you are responding to an unwitnessed collapse, do you provide CPR first THEN use AED? I know that if the collapse it witnessed, you use the AED as soon as possible. But I have heard mixed opinions...

  23. thorazine

    sweetieann posted a topic in General Nursing

    Can you inject IM into vastus lateralis in an adult? Why does everywhere I look say to inject into the upper outer buttock quadrant? I hate to use this site because of close proximity to sciatic...

  24. Frustrated and confused

    sweetieann replied to wonderbee's topic in Psychiatric

    I work at a psych hospital on an eating disorder unit, we we see a good mix of medical problems that are secondary to the toll this psych. illness has put on the pt's bodies. We do run IVs and...

  25. help!

    sweetieann posted a topic in General Nursing

    Just a quick question- In general, is an MD order needed for a nurse to perform an accu check on a pt? Say a pt says they "feel low" (not diabetic or on Treatment or anything, maybe they haven't...