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  1. PO liquid potassium vs. PO tablet potassium??

    offlabel replied to sherlee's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    Potassium replacement is rarely, if ever an urgent/emergent problem. A serum potassium that is chronically low certainly is not. PO is just easier on everyone, taste of the stuff aside. To give some...

  2. Reported to DEA

    offlabel replied to S.S.'s topic in General Nursing

    Yeah...no one reported you to the

  3. My co-worker refuses to trade shifts with me

    offlabel replied to Nurse Beth's topic in Career Advice Column

    What goes around, comes

  4. Fluid Management During shortage

    offlabel replied to MCHRN13's topic in Operating Room

    Aside from the facts that they're frequently 3 liter bags and and often are not even physiologically suitable for IV administration (sterile water, glycine, sorbitol), someone would have do be out of...

  5. Minimal infusion rates best practice

    offlabel replied to Courtney Murphy's topic in General Nursing

    How big is the kid? Yeah, a carrier with manifold is optimal for more uniform delivery if it isn't a dedicated infusion site, but if not just make the carrier/infusion some fraction of the hourly...

  6. How do you feel about being asked to shadow in addition to interview?

    offlabel replied to Marshall1's topic in General Nursing

    They're doing you a favor. You may hate the place. You may not be a great fit. Given the amount of time you'll be spending there, even part time, seems like a rational thing to

  7. Are We Change Agents?

    offlabel replied to TheInclusiveNurse's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    In summary, nurses (some people that) have the talent, expertise, and point of view needed to be effective advocates for healthcare policy and legislation (are nurses.)

  8. Yondr bags and pacemakers

    offlabel replied to Nancy swart's topic in School

    Contact the medical device companies themselves. There are product reps that are attached to most medium sized hospital cardiology dept's. Boston Scientific and Medtronic are the two big ones. They'd...

  9. Question for NICU nurses in Texas, Idaho

    offlabel replied to H G's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    Read the laws. Of course there would be no criminal charges in the above scenario as there is no direct intention to act against a living fetus. Nor would there be if the fetus died as a secondary...

  10. Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist (CRNA): Job Description, Salary, and How to Become One

    offlabel commented on Kyle Oliver's article in Nursing Career Explorer

    C'mon guys...be pro's...this is

  11. Bombshell Article by Bloomberg Businessweek

    offlabel replied to FullGlass's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    Do the accrediting bodies bear any responsibility? Anesthesia training programs and CRNA's are held to extremely high standards for authorization to even open their doors and CE requirements to remain...

  12. Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist (CRNA): Job Description, Salary, and How to Become One

    offlabel commented on Kyle Oliver's article in Nursing Career Explorer

    What about anesthesia attracts

  13. Is this normal or concerning for a vent peds patient?

    offlabel replied to mari94's topic in PICU, Pediatric

    In the same photo, and at the same time youy data seems interrupted, just below your red circle are 5 minutes of 'circuit leak' messages from the ventilator. I'd look into

  14. Propofol and LR solution

    offlabel replied to Kate96's topic in General Nursing

    yes

  15. Propofol and LR solution

    offlabel replied to Kate96's topic in General Nursing

    A single invitro observation that doesn't come close to an actual clinical setting? No doubt someone with something to prove would make an issue out of this observational science fair project but...

  16. Stable Vtach

    offlabel replied to Matthew89's topic in General Nursing

    OK...so it sounds like whomever decided to cardiovert didn't want to wait for v-fib (believing what they were seeing was actually VT). At that point (SR with hypotension) running in a liter of fluid...

  17. Stable Vtach

    offlabel replied to Matthew89's topic in General Nursing

    All things being equal because you included no history at all, stable, asymptomatic VT (assuming that's what it really was) is treated pharmacologically before DCCV. Sounds like there were a couple of...

  18. EKOS CATHETER

    offlabel replied to Kiwi82's topic in Radiology

    Which lumen are you trying to transduce? The only one that would make sense would be the 'coolant' lumen as it is completely primed, it doesn't have the u/s wire through as the central lumen does and...

  19. I failed my ACLS and need advice.

    offlabel replied to Sweetpea04's topic in General Nursing

    Take it from a different set of instructors or a different group altogether. The mega code is so subjective and sometimes instructors just flex to show folks who the boss

  20. Why am I not getting blood samples with a butterfly needle?

    offlabel replied to dsaprog's topic in General Nursing

    After 3 and a half tubes, you probably just exhausted the blood in the venous system you were plugged into. Just waiting a minute before trying to aspirate anymore blood is all you'd need to do. Also,...

  21. HEPATOPULMONARY SYNDROME

    offlabel replied to ambersky004's topic in Critical Care

    https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK562169/ I Googled

  22. Bombshell Article by Bloomberg Businessweek

    offlabel replied to FullGlass's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    Hospital systems run by advanced degree administrative CNO's (nurses) are in no small part driving

  23. National Nurses Honor Guard Coalition

    offlabel replied to Nurse Beth's topic in Career Advice Column

    As a dude, I can't really relate, but that is actually pretty

  24. Bombshell Article by Bloomberg Businessweek

    offlabel replied to FullGlass's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    These are not the droids you're looking

  25. IR NP

    offlabel replied to BeatsPerMinute's topic in Advanced Practice

    this is for cath lab techs not