Marcy Long

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1. RN's removing chest tubes/heimlich valves and urostomy drains

   Marcy Long replied to Miss RNC's topic in Medical-Surgical

   At my facility we do remove hemovacs and some smaller drains, but not chest tubes. A lot of the time the docs do dc the drains on their rounds. I don't see why this can't be left for the docs to do....

2. RSV treatment

   Marcy Long replied to BethanyJ's topic in Pediatric

   I work on a ped unit in Springfield, Mo. A few years ago we used Riboviran on every child with RSV that walked throught the doors. Our physicians now only use it on kids with cardiac problems and...