scampi710

Hi ....I am almost embarassed....I have been an RN for 25 years, but I do not know about what to look for in a fresh post-op bariatric patient. What type of complications should I be alert to?

Thank you so much for your tenacity, professionalism, endurance, documentation and being an inspiration to all of us. CONGRATULATIONS......AND THANK YOU.

One way we RN's can stand against agencies like Group One and the vagaries of incompetent nurse managers and administrators is for those of us who are "travelers" to refuse to take any assignments in Dallas/Ft. Worth and communities that utilize "Gro...

Since "Dear Abby" is the authority on all matters, is the columnist now responsible for all the millions of spouses who will as questions when their loved one is in PACU? .... and take the responses for truth? I think so.....it will now generate m...

Have any one of us ever felt better after a massage or a backrub? That's TT.

Everyone who has read this thread knows the truth of what is happening in hospitals. We all need to sign the petition. Thank you Tsunami Kim and Kim Sanders-Fisher. Scampi710

:balloons: Hooray....I found a wealth of information on Google....forget Yahoo...... I feel so greatly relieved that I finally found it:balloons: No longer spinning!!!

Hey Nurseboy.....Any guidelines you can give me for renal transplant care is welcome..... Articles you can direct me to? I will be assuming care for a 7 day post op renal transplant patient. I looked for information on yahoo and google, but so fa...

Hi Curlyfries......I definitely need the patient's point of view along with some solid pointers on post op care beyond ambulation, temperature, vs's. I will assume care of a 7 day post op patient. What meds, rejection signs, outputs, etc. can I ex...

Is there anyone on the forum who can help me with post op care of a renal transplant patient? The patient will be 5 to 7 days post-op when I assume care. What about 24 hour urines at this time. B/P's? Meds? Complications? Foleys? Rejection...

The answer is "NO". I think you handled it poorly. Laughing at a young girl who may be subjected to bestiality is hardly what I would call a professional intervention. Getting more information and facts would be better than snickering.

It is so nice to see that some ER nurses are NOT into treating the patients like "annoyances" or to be abused by rude, unempathetic staff. Yes, some people do come in with self-indulgent complaints, but they have to be sorted out with a professional...

Welcome to nursing Nursing is not a job. It is a profession, and as such we have professional ethics, responsibilities, and standards to effect and perform quality life saving care. In our profession there are multitudinous barriers we have to o...

While I was on contract in College Station, TX. (one of my fun places to work), I worked with a traveler who had just finished an assignment in Harlingen. She described some harrowing details and said she would never go back there again. Another fr...

How totally tragic. Been an RN,BSN for 28 years, and for all of those years I have been saying that we should have hazardous duty benefits. Can't even begin to describe how much comes through the ED doors. To rubricize: one night we were ov...

It is paramount to speak spanish since most of the patient population is Mexican/Mexica-American. The population is primarily poor, with some extremely wealthy clients from Mexico. The classes are distinct. Rich. Poor. The patient loads are he...

Would also suggest you focus your energy for change to eliminating excessive jewelry, rings (with stones), acrylic nails. Nosocomial Infection and patient safety is at stake.:)

1) 28 yrs. 2) Critical Care 3) Texas 4) BSN 5) Scrubs are uniforms. In 1978 I did a research thesis on nusing caps. My hypothesis was "Nursing caps are a vector to carrying pathogenic organisms". My hypothesis was proven and accepted...

HMMMMM. Let me see. Went to work. Had 5 critical patients. Had marginal monitoring equipment (the hospital is "renovating"). Had to use the computer before I could start on my patients....OR if the patient is drawing his last breath, I hav...

It is time for us to unite as a profession----across the country. The fact that a Magnet Hospital (number one in the country....Baltimore, MD.) is not much different than those in the south and in Texas blares a voluminous signal to all of us who ...

:o Panhandler says it all so well. I also have been in the position of being THE outstanding nurse, the one everyone turned to for clinical information, a proponent of patient advocacy, a champion for the professional nurse. I don't have to finis...

Sometimes this is the perfect opportunity to start some patient teaching. Frequently these people are told to NEVER start an antibiotic before consulting with the healthcare system, be it a physician or a clinic. They frequently interpret that to ...

Dear TNNNURSE: I feel for you. I admire your tenacious ethic to patient advocacy and your unyielding honor. HAUNTED and PANHANDLER have given you the most valuable advice, inasmuch as nursing in TEXAS or anywhere in the SOUTH is a heartache for ...

:uhoh21: We all need to realize that Group One is a malignancy that is pervasive in DFW, but can and will effect all of us in Texas and metastisize throughout all of nursing if we let it. Soooo, how do we stop it?

Just read this entire thread from page one and you can make up your own mind. I have practiced in many parts of this country....Texas and Florida are the worst.