infusing lipids?

If a pt has a multiple lumen pic line can you administer fats in a separate lumen by itself? When administering tpn with fats what happens if the fats go directly to the pt with a filter of course? They can be in a separate line or connected to the li

Labor and Delivery at Teaching Hospital in DFW

Hi,

I am moving to dfw area and am trying to find out some of the best teaching hospitals or at the very least nice hospitals for labor and delivery. I have worked at some very big teaching hospitals including ones in houston and it is definitely the

Nurse safety and patient safety connection

I was interviewed for this NPR article and I was proud to stand up for nurses, because nurses stand up for patients.

Nurses Unions Propose Solution to Nurse Injuries, Improved Patient Safety | WXXI News

I would love to hear comments about this issue

First and foremost always a Nurse

3 Once a Nurse, always a Nurse. Caring and compassion is engrained into it's profession. Patients always seem to remember the Nurse who took care of them. It is a sacred relationship of sorts that is shared and remembered. The Nurse functions as the

Should I leave my current job?

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Metal stitches vs dissolvable stitches

I've heard that metal stitches hurt more than dissolvable stitches. This must make healing more difficult. I've heard they hurt when taken out and also heard about stitches getting embedded in someone's skin.

Google Answers: Non dissolvable stitc

Distance or flexibility - which would you choose?

Two job offers:

First one is about an hour drive one way, give or take a few minutes, but allows for flexibility in schedule (meaning I can choose the 2-3 days/week I want to work and the 12 hr shift(day/nights or combination)). This is an ER positio

Help me figure out how to be happy!

1 This is more a mind-dump than anything else. 80% of the time, I LOVE my job. I'm really really good at it. I adore all my coworkers, and I think they feel the same about me. For the most part, the patients love me. I'm the go-to person, the point

New way to give shots

1 My lovely and talented daughter in law is in nursing school and she is teaching me all kinds of new things.

Today she says that there is a new place to give "butt" shots. Supposedly we are supposed to go ventrogluteal now. Something abou

What's less busy than Med-Surg?

I have only worked as a nurse in LTC and Med Surg so far. LTC was busy to me as far as the long med pass. With the assessments, admissions, discharges, endless charting, etc, I am finding Med Surg to be even busier. I don't completely hate it and am