NurseStelri

NurseStelri

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  1. Post-Op Pain with PCA

    NurseStelri posted a topic in PACU

    Hi Everyone! (Thanks for reading) I have recently been approached to possibly guide an assessment and rollout plan for our OR regarding PCAs. I am a graduate student and have been told that there...

  2. OR nurses don't deal with PCAs

    NurseStelri replied to NurseStelri's topic in Operating Room

    Great idea, I will discuss this with our anesthesia staff. I'll start observing and doing a chart review this coming week and I'll keep you all posted on what I find because it does sound like there...

  3. OR nurses don't deal with PCAs

    NurseStelri replied to NurseStelri's topic in Operating Room

    Thanks for your response MereSanity! I know that PCAs are unneeded in surgery so where do you guys document that they are turned

  4. Why did you become a nurse?

    NurseStelri replied to Valerie99's topic in General Nursing

    My mom is a nurse...my grandma was a nurse...and my great-grandma was a nurse! Although I always said, "I'm not smart enough to be a nurse." When I was preparing to graduate from college with a...

  5. Round 2

    NurseStelri replied to LOVINLIFE14's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    I used Kaplan until my head hurt then used a few NCLEX study books I had acquired through friends because they were written in a different way than Kaplan and it gave my burnt out brain a break....

  6. Post-Op Pain with PCA

    NurseStelri replied to NurseStelri's topic in PACU

    Hi Everyone! (Thanks for reading) I have recently been approached to possibly guide an assessment and rollout plan for our OR regarding PCAs. I am a graduate student and have been told that there has...

  7. Post-Op Pain with PCA

    NurseStelri replied to NurseStelri's topic in PACU

    Thanks for the responses! I do believe in our hospital hooks up (not starts) the PCA in the OR but after reading all of your replies I'm going to go double check this. I was told that they were set...

  8. Can a new grad get hired in the OR and other questions?

    NurseStelri replied to NenaRK's topic in Operating Room

    Wow! This thread and the info in it are great, thanks

  9. A dedicated psych staff in your ER?

    NurseStelri posted a topic in Emergency

    Hi everyone! I am a graduate student in a large ER. I had a background in psychology before I obtained my RN which kinda brings me to this clinical project for which I'm trying to narrow down a...

  10. A dedicated psych staff in your ER?

    NurseStelri replied to NurseStelri's topic in Emergency

    Thanks everyone for your replies. PsychGuy you are correct, my hospital definitely has a large number of psych patients as out psych unit is almost always full. I asked around a bit and I guess my...

  11. A dedicated psych staff in your ER?

    NurseStelri replied to NurseStelri's topic in Emergency

    That is similar to how our ED works except our psych unit is a 6 bed locked off area at the front of our unit (and for my city that is not quite big enough so we always have overflow of psych into the...

  12. A dedicated psych staff in your ER?

    NurseStelri replied to NurseStelri's topic in Emergency

    Since this is my first semester of MS clinical, this is just a project (almost like a mini-capstone smashed into a semester, doesn't have to come to completion so to speak). But if I find that it goes...