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Funny...we have a couple of British doctors and they always use Phenergan instead of Gravol...on Maternity I'm talking about. We give it IV push quite often and I have never heard any of them complain about how much it burns. And it's 25mg that we give, undiluted. It is into a running IV though...most of the time...sometimes it's into a loc. Amanda :)

Well...I agree that there are few that really don't chart anything, but that's what the flow sheets are for...you putting your initial or however it is at your hospital is acknowledging that you have assessed that part of your patient. That should hold you up in court as strongly as you writing the same thing...your name is there, so you're responsible...and it saves ink! Amanda :)

Scary, but a big feeling of accomplishment at the same time! I would have been making my pants a little dirty myself...I thankfully have not had to deal with that by myself yet, there have always been more experienced people with me. Amanda :)

At our college we were not allowed to practice on each other...liabilty reasons I would assume. Some of us would have liked to practice, just to see how things went, but we used the little saline bag that was thick so simulate going through skin. We were also encouraged to pracitice on oranges for subcutaneous injections. Amanda :)

I think that's just horrible! Something needs to be done...talk to whoever you have to so that this is fixed and you're looked after. Amanda :)

Well...in our hospital...if they want them in the nursery for the night and we're able to accomodate, they stay in the nursery. If it gets really busy, then we wheel them back to their mothers. I haven't heard any complaints personally...they obviously know what a delivery is like. For the amount of time they're in the hospital...1 to 2 nights...get all the rest you have because you won't get any at home! Especially if you have more kids at home. The babies are in with their mothers all day long, even if they're in phototherapy. Get the rest when you can. Amanda :)

Medicine has 6-7 patients per nurse (RN or LPN) - 30 patient unit Surgery has usually 5 (RN or LPN) - 20 patient unit Continuting Care has 2 NAs and 1 RN on an 8 hour night - 30 resident unit, sometimes a respite patient. Amanda :)

What's an HH patient?

The way we do it is there is 20u in a bag of 1000cc 2/3-1/3, but we also push 5u either after the delivery of the placenta or the baby's shoulders, depending on the doctor. Amanda :)

Yeah, the only thing that means is that there are a lot of older nurses compared to younger ones... Amanda :)

That's right...alcohol was thrown out the window here because they found it took less time for the cords to fall off if they used plain water. And we don't tell them to sponge bath anymore either...just dunk 'em right in! Amanda :)

I'm so glad that everything worked out for you...Someone had His eye on you for sure! Scary stuff...when you think it's something so innocent... Amanda :)

I would have to say that one of the things I least like to do is... Smell post-op breath! With the combination of not eating for hours on end and having anesthetic go through your system...it smells the same all the time and it's gross every single time....ugh...:imbar Amanda :)

The only part that won't get to the patient is the tiny bit that's in the needle itself...and that's not even really 0.1mLs. To prevent anything leaking back out after you remove the needle we were taught to hold the needle in place for 3 seconds after finishing injection. It absorbs enough that it won't come back out. If we had air bubbles in our syringes, we had to take them out! Amanda :)

We pay a monthly fee for parking, and it's really not that much. I think it's only abour $15 a month. In a close-by city, at one of their smaller hospitals, it's $30 or so. You get a plug-in stall (it gets -40 Celsius here in the winter) and it's not far at all to walk. It's actually just beside the visitor's parking, which is right in front of the hospital. But compared to your hospitals, ours is a drop-in centre! Amanda :)