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    LPN to RN... ask for a raise?

    DebblesRN replied to e.moore30's topic in General Nursing

    Okay--just looked this up. In the United states, the average national median salary for an LPN is $39, 772. The average national median salary for an RN is $62,527. Yeah, I don't think I'd be...
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    LPN to RN... ask for a raise?

    DebblesRN replied to e.moore30's topic in General Nursing

    I'd check with someone in human resources about that. I would not accept a 25 cent payraise in your situation. That's just crazy. Find out what a graduate nurse makes at your facility and let HR...
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    Did Nursing Supervisor do the right thing?

    DebblesRN replied to EtoseLvr03's topic in General Nursing

    If it were me, I would do the assessment and make sure it is dated for the day you do it. If they want to put it in the file for December--that's on their heads and they can take that chance. Is it...
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    Caring for a COPD patient

    DebblesRN replied to Simply Complicated's topic in Pulmonary

    Here are a couple more links to some info. Nursing Care Plan: NCP Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) and Asthma ICU Nursing-Nurse Interventions In Acute Exacerbations Of COPD Caring for a...
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    Caring for a COPD patient

    DebblesRN replied to Simply Complicated's topic in Pulmonary

    100 % NRB will increase the CO2 levels, which will increase work of breathing, and kill the respiratory drive. RN.com has a course on COPD. It cost 10 dollars and is 2 CEUs, BUT you can review the...
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    Med Surg to Nursery. will i be bored?

    DebblesRN replied to liamssmile's topic in General Nursing

    I was a cardiac nurse for many years before I switched to Newborn Nursery, NICU. Nursery and NICU are NOT boring, I assure you. I learn something new every day, and totally enjoy my job. I'm a...
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    Hospital Infant Security Systems

    DebblesRN replied to BABYRN916's topic in Ob/Gyn

    We get a lot of feeder grower preemies from a level III hospital, and they stay with us for weeks, we also get babies in withdrawal that stay for long periods of time, or the NICU babies that need 14...
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    Hospital Infant Security Systems

    DebblesRN replied to BABYRN916's topic in Ob/Gyn

    We use Hugs where I work, and I think it is a good system. Whenever a baby is tagged in L&D, the Hugs System plays a lullaby, so we know in the nursery we will be getting a baby in an hour. The...
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    In your opinion, was this an inappropriate assignment?

    DebblesRN replied to klone's topic in Ob/Gyn

    Ha ha--this is why I don't post on here much. Someone has a valid question about something, and everyone wants to come on here and blast you about their VAST knowledge while belittling you at the...
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    Nubain Issues

    DebblesRN replied to DebblesRN's topic in Ob/Gyn

    that was nice of you to post the micromedex link, but you have to have an account to look at whatever you were trying to show
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    Breast baby after C-Section and GD

    DebblesRN replied to nkochrn's topic in Ob/Gyn

    Yeah--it is this one group of pediatricians. They drive me crazy. They want the baby fed every 2 hours until we get 3 AC's above 50. We are talking 20-30ml every 2 hrs. They will start IVF if the...
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    Breast baby after C-Section and GD

    DebblesRN replied to nkochrn's topic in Ob/Gyn

    Where I work, our glucoses have to be greater than or equal to 50 or the baby gets formula. We have a GDM protocol--check sugars at 1 hr, 3 hrs, 12 hrs, and 24 hrs. I try to let mom BF first...
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    Octuplets

    DebblesRN replied to Sweeper933's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    "Also, I have actually heard that Medical (the free health insurance in CA for poor people) will provide free IVF to women. They say they can't deny a woman's right to have children. Just wanted to...
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    Nurses performing abortions??

    DebblesRN posted a topic in Ob/Gyn

    Not trying to spark an abortion debate, I just found this article interesting, because since doctors in medical school in the UK are now refusing to learn about how to perform an abortion due to moral...
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    on call pay?

    DebblesRN replied to Pray's topic in Ob/Gyn

    We get $2.00 an hour, then time and a half if we have to come in. When I worked Cath recovery, I got $5.50 an hour, and time and a half if I came in, double time on the holidays. I think some...
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    pts going out to smoke

    DebblesRN replied to crissrn27's topic in Ob/Gyn

    Where I work, if the mom wants to go out and smoke, she has to sign an AMA form. No doctor will write an order that it is okay for a mom to go out and smoke where I work. Obviously, they are not...
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    question re: nurses doing vaginal/cervical exams

    DebblesRN replied to ljb's topic in Ob/Gyn

    Where I work, we do all vag exams and fetal scalp electrodes (if mom is ruptured), but only the doctors put in the IUPC's. We never really had a problem with Travelers who had never done a vag exam...
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    Nurses performing abortions??

    DebblesRN replied to DebblesRN's topic in Ob/Gyn

    I agree, but I also think it goes against the doctor's training as well, who vow to "first, do no harm"--and what is abortion?? It harms the fetus. So I am not sure what the difference is. It, in my...
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    well baby nursery RNs...

    DebblesRN replied to nolaRN's topic in Ob/Gyn

    I work in a well baby nursery, and we also have a level II NICU. We start the shift with the 3 minute scrub. We have 8PM rounds, where we chart a mini assessment, midnight rounds where we do weight,...
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    what is a surgigator?

    DebblesRN replied to GingerSue's topic in Ob/Gyn

    We use them here--we call them sitz baths. We normally use the peri bottles, but if mom had a nasty tear, or an episiotomy that is really bothering her, we use the sitz baths. That is a funny name....
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    PKU testing

    DebblesRN replied to doglover21's topic in Ob/Gyn

    How interesting to see how other states do things!! I live in Florida, we do our PKU's at 48 hours of age. The hospitals in our county do them before the baby is discharged, and as long as it is...
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    Husbands or S/O's at routine exam

    DebblesRN replied to walker shaw's topic in Ob/Gyn

    I must be one of the wierd ones here. I just don't think I would feel all that comfortable with my husband at the foot of the table looking up my hoo haw, asking my GYN for an anatomy lesson. He...
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    Jaundice skin color and labs

    DebblesRN replied to JenTheRN's topic in Ob/Gyn

    We have the same issue at our hospital, and everywhere else I have used the biliscanner. It consistently reads 3-5 points higher than the serum bili comes back as. Don't you just looooooooooove...
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    Newborn reflexes

    DebblesRN replied to Lisa CCU RN's topic in Ob/Gyn

    Okay, the trunk incurvation is also called the galant reflex. Galant Reflex If your baby is on his stomach and you stroke neck to the spinal cord (paravertebral area) on his middle to lower back, it...
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    ACLS Question

    DebblesRN replied to JenTheRN's topic in Ob/Gyn

    1000-1200 births a year I work L&D, Nursery, and NICU II (mostly nursery and NICU) They require ACLS--have for about 2 years I believe. We circulate our own OR, and recover our patients in our...