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Hi I am a student with a question about dye allergies. If a patient is allergic to shellfish, iodine, lobster they can't have a CT scan under any circumstances or do they just premedicate with say...benadryl? And is this the same with an MRI and IVP dye... the relationship between dye and shellfish?

Hello... I am a student with a question about suctioning. If you are suctioning someone, going through their nose, how far can you go? Just down to the nasopharyngeal area or can you go all the way down to the trachea?

I don't think science has figured out exactly why... just some combination of psychological and biochemical factors.

What's the lowest potassium level you've seen and did the patient survive?

What sort of precautions do nurses need to follow with a patient on oral chemo? Do you need to wear gloves when handling the pills? Is accidental contact with their urine just as dangerous as with IV chemo?

when you're drawing for a blood culture do you still discard the waste? or do you use the waste for the blood culture

Hi I'm a student and I had a few questions about dialysis. So when your patient is getting dialysis... there's no point in giving them any medications because it will be dialysised out, right? Does this include everything... even tylenol and insulin? Do insulin needs change pre and post dialysis... do you even given insulin before their treatment? Was it stupid that a MD ordered a 24 hour urine for protein on a patient getting dialysis?

Oh yeah, no baths either. No one there needed anything like that.

No, it's nothing like med surg. We didn't bring in stethescopes, do vital signs, or pass meds (you might pass meds, though... it was just the facility didn't allow that). We just talked with the patients and then analysed everything in group discussion afterwards. We were expected to talk therapeudically as learned in class. We were expected to make good observations of the patietn's behaviors and relate it to their condition or other concepts learned in class. It was fun.

The only thing I can see wrong with attatching the 250 bag of saline is that it could be considered a wasteful charge to the patient. I don't know about a 250cc bag, but I heard that the 1,000 cc bags are expensive aren't they?

I would have a problem with maggots, or any other kind of insect, crawling out of anywhere.

See I just don't understand why I see people doing different things... some nurses will flush before and after and others wont (I'm talking if they have a maintanence going). My actual nursing book doesn't say to flush before or after if there's a maintanence... it just says to pinch-unpinch the tubing to let the maintanence flow with the medicine. All it has is a side note that some hospital policy may require a 1cc flush afterwards.

Hi I'm a student and I had a question about flushing when a patient has a primary IV going. Let's say they are to get Dilaudid... do you really have to flush it before and after? Does it matter if their primary is NS or has K or any Dextrose in it? I know if it's not compatible you would have to flush... but if it is than you don't, right?