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HOW TO SHOWER LIKE A WOMAN: 1. Take off clothing and place it in sectioned laundry hamper according to lights and darks of course. 2. Walk to the bathroom wearing a long dressing gown. If you see your husband along the way, cover up any exposed ar...

What kind of stethescope does everyone and and where do you keep it. I have a Littman Classic II SE and think it's great, I wear it around my neck almost all the time and feel naked without it, which can be kind of a nice feeling since i work with 99...

Had a patient code the other night, he was my patient, 59 yo male, hx of chirohsis (SP?) among other things, iddm, sz disorde... Had a k+ of 6.1, md order kayacelate enema, i gave it, pt was axox3, vss, complained about the enema, didn't hold much i...

Does yor institution allow the use of pumps for transfusion, or do you have to hang it to gravity?

I work for a Union hospital, i would vote them out in a second. We have poor nisurance, average pay, poor staffing, grievences that do absolutley notehr (last manager i had, had over 125 grievencs in one year aganst her personally and she still has h...

Don't move to NY, any part. It is the worst state in the US to live in.

What is the love affair that PMD's and even some general surgeons have with demerol . On our ortho floor is we are not even giving our doctors the option to use it in the new pain management protocol. It doesn't work, gives elderly people narcotic i...

Anybody get sniped? What do I have to look forard to after the procedure, when can I get "back to business" so too speak?

there are a lot of bad unions out ther, I have worked for 2 of them. Carful what you wish for, you just might get it.

Our ICU is cardiac and medical combined, usually 3:1, almost never 1:1, only occasionally on days. Our SICU has way better staffing usually never more than 2:1. Acuity means absolutly nothing in our system

Our ICU is cardiac and medical combined, usually 3:1, almost never 1:1, only occasionally on days. Our SICU has way better staffing usually never more than 2:1. Acuity means absolutly nothing in our system

No place to go, there is no shortage here cuz all the hospitals, every one of which is unionized, staff like that

No place to go, there is no shortage here cuz all the hospitals, every one of which is unionized, staff like that

LLD sounds like yor floor was staffed like our ICU, man I gotta get out of here. Poor staffing is the norm not the exception.

LLD sounds like yor floor was staffed like our ICU, man I gotta get out of here. Poor staffing is the norm not the exception.

I don't work on tele but have a very close friend who does. Nights has 10-12 patients each, usually 1 moniter tech and 1 aide. No pressor drips are allowed outside the icu in our hospital. Keep in mind we are the largest cardiac hospital in the area,...

I don't work on tele but have a very close friend who does. Nights has 10-12 patients each, usually 1 moniter tech and 1 aide. No pressor drips are allowed outside the icu in our hospital. Keep in mind we are the largest cardiac hospital in the area,...

WOW you guys are complaining about 1:8? Our sugical tele floor on nights is 1:12 and the med tele is even higher.

WOW you guys are complaining about 1:8? Our sugical tele floor on nights is 1:12 and the med tele is even higher.

Surprised nobody mentioned this, did they check her blood glucose? Hypoglycemia can somtimes mimic a CVA

Absolutly has to e on a moniter, I wouldn't even give it, seen a pt. go asystole 5 minutes after getting it.

Call me weird, everyone else does, but i like that skunk smell

Mark, SQ lovenox is given in the abdominand don't remove the air bubble. I always draw heparin in a 3 cc syringe with a 20 ga needle and then change to a 25 ga 5/8'th I do the same with sickel cellers cuz nobody wants to be stuch with a dull needle ...

I have no idea what a sluice room is, so I would say you probably don't need one andwould be infinatly better offf with a bigger pt. rm.

Just cigars, have no intention of quitting either.