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I work in an acute rehab and was taking care of a patient with an ileal conduit. When ambulating with the patient to the bathroom, she complained of feeling really tired, weak, and wasn't walking as well as she had a few days before when I last worked with her. But she was still able to walk and toilet with 1 assistance. When she finished on the toilet, I took her vitals. BP 70s/40s, HR 140, temp 99.something and SpO2 98. I immediately paged the MDs. They came to see her and ordered fluids, labs and urine and blood cultures. All orders were completed which meant obtaining urine cultures from the ileal conduit. The ileal conduit was in an ostomy bag that was connected to a longer urine collection bag for when the patient was in bed asleep so we wouldn't have to empty her ostomy bag as frequently. I collected the urine sample from the ostomy bag rather than the larger collection bag to reduce contamination. Labs came back and her WBCs since the two days that she last had labs collected went from 9 to 29. The doctors and I went into presumed sepsis mode and transferred the patient to the ICU. Thankfully, the ICU was able to get the patient back to us in the clear after a few days. Two weeks later, I get a call from infection control asking for details about how I collected the urine sample. I explained how I collected the sample and was told that I should have straight cath'ed the ileal conduit for the most accurate sample (I didn't even know that was possible). The call ended with them telling me that there will be some follow up encounters. My unit educator was on the call and told me not to worry, but I cant help but worry. What are potential outcomes of this scenario?

Hey everyone, I will be graduating from Rush in August and I'm already thinking about my path post school. I have been looking in to the Illinois Masonic RN residency program and was hoping to get some feedback. Most of the posts about the program on here are quite general or specifically about the interview process. Here are some of my questions for people who have gone through/are in the RN residency program or even for people who work at Illinois Masonic. 1. What attracted you to the RN residency program? Or what attracted you to work at Illinois Masonic? 2. What would be some of the strengths of the residency program/working at Illinois Masonic? 3. What are some weaknesses or disadvantages of the program/working at Illinois Masonic? 4. How is the program set up? Did you feel supported by the staff/preceptor/etc? 5. What advice would you give to someone looking in to the program? 6. When exactly are the program start dates? 7. What is the starting salary like for the residency program/ new grad nurse? Thanks so much!

I am cis-male, but should have made it even more inclusive and asked about any non Cis-female experience. I appreciate that you appreciated the inclusiveness!

That's awesome! How did you find these male CNMs?

hey there! I am in my last year of nursing school and have been thinking about pursuing labor and delivery/mother-baby/NICU and potentially a CNM degree later on. I've always been interested in sexual and reproductive health. Are there any male identified CNMs on here? What is your experience? If you aren't a male identified CNM, how do you think it will be based on your experience? Thanks!

Hey everyone, I was also at the First Look on Saturday. I had my interview today. My interviewer asked me a good amount of questions regarding my school/work ethic, whether I prefer to work alone vs on a team, and how do I handle stressful situations. Definitely not the questions I was expecting. I think we had a really great conversation and they were a nurse midwife and women's health NP so it was nice to talk about my interest in reproductive and sexual health with someone who has a lot of experience in that realm.