Hold pressure where?

Had a pt return to the floor s/p RLE angio with stenting. The transferring nurse said the doc went through the R femoral artery instead of the L femoral artery. Ok. Then she said, "If he starts rebleeding, hold pressure distal to the insertion s

Mispronunciations that drive you nuts

29 Car-dee-ya-zem.



It's car-di-zem. Or dil-ti-ya-zem.

Cardiazem isn't a real thing.

Can I get an amen?! Stats for sats drives me nuts !!!

Comment: It's Phen-er-gan, not phen-a-grin.It's a Holter monitor, not a halter.Spelling- it's HIPAA, not H

New Grad Advice

Hello, I graduated a year ago and have been working orthopedics/neurosurgery. I mainly took the job for experience. My goal is to eventually be able to work at Duke or MUSC in the southeast. Right now I live two hours from Charleston which is where M

Advanced Pathophysiology course

Anyone know of an Advanced Pathophysiology online course to take that is accepted by ANCC???? Rivier University has one Rivier University - Acalog ACMS™[27]=BIO&filter[29]=504&filter[32]=1&cpage=1&cur_cat_oid=98&catoid=98&navoi

Do Nurses Earn Big Money? You Decide.

I completely agree with this! I do not understand students who say they went into nursing for the money. I have always understood nursing is a solid middle class career and we all know where the middle class stand in this country. =]

Comment: I'm

Bulletin boards: dialysis

I work at an outpatient dialysis clinic. We have two huge bulletin boards. I like to keep them cute yet educational. (12yrs in preschool before nursing school) any resource ideas?

First management interview need tips and advice

I posted a couple weeks ago a question here about how far would you drive for a significant pay raise.

Well, I had that interview and apparently it went well enough I was offered an opportunity to interview for a management position. BTW, this is wit

IV Certification

Hello,
I am in the process of relocating to Florida from Ohio. I am an IV certified LPN with 40 hours of clinical training and experience in the job field. I received a call from a prospective employer in Florida advising Florida requires a "cer

Anti X-a off line

We have just been told that best practice now dictates that anti x-a's cannot be drawn off central lines. The rationale being that heparin stays in the lumen of the line and skews the results.

We have always turned off the heparin for 5 minutes, flu

Deep Suction for comfort with trach at end of life?

Having a bit of a disagreement among our clients care team - some input would be nice, having a hard time finding any literature on the topic.

I have a patient who is on comfort care only, has had a trach for years and is not on a ventilator.

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