dear all if you wish i can send you the wound assement chart used at my hospital it would have to be by snail mail as i m not to funky on the computer as yet ...
rodgers532a@...
Mar 2, 2003 12:35 am
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Nurses Reconnected will be one year old on 5th March !! A BIG thanks to all of you who joined us in 2002 - we are happy to report that we are successfully...
Nurses Reconnected will be one year old on 5th March !! A BIG thanks to all of you who joined us in 2002 - we are happy to report that we are successfully...
Hello, I am a new member and I am looking forward to your site! I am new to critical care-7mths and only been nursing for 4years and I had to chuckle at the...
Paula
pmerrill@...
Mar 8, 2003 11:23 pm
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Hello, I'm very impressed with all the reference material on this site! I'm looking to find a Program Director for our Critical Care Transport Division out...
Gary Tennyson
gary@...
Mar 8, 2003 11:23 pm
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... at my ... the ... Well I was looking for a website or a company rep I could call, if any one knows any. I prefer not to give my address out! thanks...
chicmerrill
pmerrill@...
Mar 8, 2003 11:23 pm
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Mary, Thank you for your comment, I am in total agreement with you. C Walter RN BS RCP ... __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? ...
Carol Walter
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Mar 10, 2003 4:12 am
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I agree. I have been a RN in ICU for nearly three years now and find the information useful and up to date. I also agree that we NEED to give one another...
RLynch5144@...
Mar 10, 2003 1:22 pm
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Hello - I'm Barb Staker. I'm new to the group & a new grad working a new job in the Medical Intensive Care Unit in Rock Island, Illinois. To answer your ...
Hi, my name is Barb. I'm a new grad from December 2002 and my first job as an RN is in the MICU of a hospital in Rock Island, Illinois. I am so glad I found...
Hello, I am a critical care nurse, and have always aligned the transducer at the phlebostatic axis. The critical nurse educators are now teaching the align...
Richard Brannan
rbrannan@...
Mar 14, 2003 3:04 am
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Hi Barb, First and foremost, welcome to critical care nursing! My advice is that you find yourself a mentor (or mentors). Look for someone who is where you...
Paul Ladwig
irmeddik@...
Mar 14, 2003 8:43 pm
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I am the Manager of Critical Care Education and Quality at our facility and working with our Intensivists, we have just reviewed this particular issue, we have...
Just wondering how often you all change pressure tubing. Our hospital mandates tubing change every 48 hours. The last hospital I worked at required us to...
We change all our tubing every 72 hours. The only thing that gets changed sooner is Diprivan tubing (12 hours). Each facility writes their own policy based ...
Paul Ladwig
irmeddik@...
Mar 18, 2003 6:10 am
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I work in an ICU and note that there are several MDs and RNs who have no concept of pain control. With all the focus that there is on patient's b rights and...
RLynch5144@...
Mar 18, 2003 2:28 pm
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At our hospital, here in Las Vegas, we change the pressure tubing Q 72 Hr. We also have a policy to change Diprivan tubing Q 12 Hr. There seems to be debate...
RLynch5144@...
Mar 18, 2003 2:28 pm
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... That warrants action - someone needs to re-educate this nurse. Sue in Iowa...
Here in my Atlanta hospital we just changed our protocol from 72 to 96 hours for a pressure tubing change. We also just changed our Diprivan protocol from 24...
I think that amounts to nursing malpractice, in my opinion. How much longer would the patient be in ICU if she pulled out her lines and got out of bed and...
We change the tubing every 72 hrs ... From: jellis6584@... [mailto:jellis6584@...] Sent: Monday, March 17, 2003 8:52 PM To: nursebob@yahoogroups.com ...
Babuji, Thankamma
Tbabuji@...
Mar 18, 2003 8:37 pm
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Our facility also used the 72 hour tubing change for all of our tubings except for the Diprivan every 12 hours. The IV piggy back tubing is changed every 24...
Its easy to say someone needs to be re educated but the problem with re education of "seasoned" nurses, at least I find, is that many of them believe they know...
RLynch5144@...
Mar 19, 2003 5:03 am
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We now use Novasource products and the company's protocol sets tube change times at 48 hours. Although the company says 48 hours, there are times I wonder...
RLynch5144@...
Mar 19, 2003 3:33 pm
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I agree. To withhold pain medication in circumstances such as I have witnessed boils down to nothing short of malpractice. [Non-text portions of this message...
RLynch5144@...
Mar 19, 2003 3:33 pm
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Hello, I am a new RN. I just received my license around a month ago. I wanted to reply to the message about the nurse who worked with the other nurse...
boohbooh@...
Mar 20, 2003 4:52 pm
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My hospital requires to change pressure tubing every72 hours.--- On Tue 03/18, Babuji, Thankamma < Tbabuji@... > wrote: From: Babuji, Thankamma...
boohbooh@...
Mar 20, 2003 4:52 pm
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Hi everyone. Thanks to all who responded regarding frequency of pressure tubing changes. My next question is does anyone know how I could access some of the...
Hello! I just graduated in December of 2002. I was working as an extern in the Trauma Intensive Care Unit. I worked in the CCU for a year Jan-Dec. I...
boohbooh@...
Mar 22, 2003 1:11 am
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I do a lot of my research through a site called GALILEO. It is a Georgia based libraray online. If you have something similar to this, there is a database...
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