LisaRn21

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1. Anyone not use a Broselow?

   LisaRn21 replied to stayseerrn's topic in Emergency

   We always use them in my er. As far as liability goes, if your facility has them available to you then use them. If not then it is a liability issue. If your policy states you don't use them then don't use them. If ever taken to court Policy and stan...

2. trach care???

   LisaRn21 replied to LisaRn21's topic in General Nursing

   Its a plastic shiley.. it doesn't matter if its soaked or not.. once you get the brush in (with some resistance) it is really really hard to get out lol

3. trach care???

   LisaRn21 posted a topic in General Nursing

   Hey guys quick question! I have a patient that has an extra long trach, and when doing trach care the brush gets stuck inside the trach..almost as if the brush is too big for the inner cannula.... Anyone ever have this experience? Am I supposed to be...

4. PI/Evidence based practice

   LisaRn21 posted a topic in General Nursing

   Going for magnet status...must do PI/evidence based practice study..any suggestions? We have already done handwashing, pain, IV checks/infiltrates, need for 4am VS, cont nebs vs. q2 hr. Running out of ideas... thanks for all your help!

5. lovenox..and coumadin

   LisaRn21 replied to LisaRn21's topic in General Nursing

   Thanks guys! I get it now that would make total sense......and yes it is unacceptable so is a ton of stuff that has happened in the past 2 weeks....ie the room not being cleaned before she was placed there....insulin being given without checking the ...

6. lovenox..and coumadin

   LisaRn21 posted a topic in General Nursing

   My mother had a huge PE .. they are sending her home on both lovenox and coumadin...I don't understand why both.. when my mother asked they said that her daughter (me ) could explain it better but I work with kids and ever hardly ever I can only thi...

7. vented patients

   LisaRn21 replied to LisaRn21's topic in General Nursing

   Thanks for all your help guys... now they are gonna place the trach tomorrow... the doctor didn't seem hopeful in being able to do it .. Seeing as my dad has a huge fat short neck...he's 348lbs and has lost most of his muscle tone in the past three y...

8. Bipap

   LisaRn21 replied to MM2007's topic in General Nursing

   Ahhh! I didn't know there was a temperature gauge.. my dad was fraeking out cause it was numbing his nose.. they could have warmed it up for him!! I didn' tknow he said the pressure is awful but the cold is what got him well when we had one lol

9. vented patients

   LisaRn21 replied to LisaRn21's topic in General Nursing

   ok! So I have some new questions!! I am just not understanding and you guys have helped out so much! So last night my dad coded his left lung collapsed from a pneumo they inserted a chest tube and it reinflated. They also told us they want to place a...

10. Inventions for Nurses

    LisaRn21 replied to ryanfocker's topic in General Nursing

    IV pumps that don't beep in the room ..just at the nurses station so that when it does go off patients and their families don't yell at you for not getting there for 3 minutes! They will never know when its beeping and you can finish what your doing ...

11. vented patients

    LisaRn21 replied to LisaRn21's topic in General Nursing

    Thanks guys for all your help. They are doing mouth care.. and they are backing down on the sedation acctually the nurse backed him down and before she could tell us what she did I had asked a question and she started to answer that and he started th...

12. vented patients

    LisaRn21 replied to LisaRn21's topic in General Nursing

    no they are well they were doing it when he had the cpap on..but they placed the tube last night and shortley after we left... so I am not sure if they are or aren't I would imagine they are.. I'm in pa

13. vented patients

    LisaRn21 replied to LisaRn21's topic in General Nursing

    how do you do mouth care? I was doing it when he was on the cpap cause his mouth was exposed but now the tube and the ties and all that are in the way... do you just go around it?

14. vented patients

    LisaRn21 posted a topic in General Nursing

    Hey guys I need your help. My dad was placed on a vent yesterday and his last words prior to being intubated was help... I want to help him so bad but I just don't know how. i've never worked with vented patients before so I"m not sure how much they ...

15. Cry or scream.. venting thread

    LisaRn21 replied to Nascar nurse's topic in Geriatric

    Can I rant too? If I hear one more time already this season, "You don't have kids why can't you work xmas" I am gonna shoot myself! Really! Like Idon't have a family and then for the nurse to say "Well in 15 years come talk to me" I don't care how lo...