Reverse Protective Isolation - Nursing Student Assistance - allnurses I'm a nursing student, and I (as well as the rest of my group) have been assigned a project that we are expected to present in a week or so Our topic is "Reverse Protective Isolation" It will be a typical little group project with a presentation board, decorations, etc We are very new to this to
Almost zero WBC count - Oncology - allnurses You are absolutely correct - ALL neutropenic patients should be on neutropenic precautions which is exactly the same thing as reverse isolation It's simply protecting the patient
Immunosuppresssion precautions versus neutropenic precautions I am thinking on doing mine on immunosuppression precautions versus neutropenic precautions If I'm correct some immunosuppressed individuals need reverse isolation The same precautions are sometimes applied to these two different diagnoses and I have started the search for academic articles, experiences and resources related to this topic
Bag Technique 101 for Home Care Nurses - Home Health - allnurses You enter Mrs Jones' home to do your Start of Care assessment She opens the door to reveal a maze of newspapers and other memorabilia that she's been keeping since at least 1929 You begin surveying the scene for a place to put your nursing bag Just as you think you've found a spot on a table
Neutropenic Precautions - General Nursing - allnurses I have a pt that I have been taking care of and she has small cell tonsil cancer She is on Neutropenic Precautions I would like to know more about what Neutropenic Precautions is and how I can best care for my patient!? Can anyone help?
Precaution Carts - General Nursing - allnurses If we are putting them outside the MRSA rooms, why aren't we putting them outside AIDS rooms???? I know about the stigma of AIDS Confidentiality is important to both! We do not put diagnosis on the signs!If we can put them out for one I think it should definitely be there for the AIDs too!!! Wha
Febrile Neutropenia - Pediatric - allnurses I am a senior nursing student (graduation less than 3 weeks!) and have been doing my senior internship on a pediatric medical-surgical unit of a large hospital This unit takes all pediatric patients including oncology patients There are currently no policies in place for the management of febri
Quick Question: when to put a patient on neutropenic precautions . . . I know this is lazy, but google didn't help me at first glance, and I'm at work and kind of busy Can someone steer to a site that let's one know when to put a patient on neutropenic precautions Dayshift isolated a patient and I don't agree with them, but need to print out something for when the
Log roll transfer from Spinal Board - Emergency - allnurses working PICU at a level 1 trauma center we were allowed to transfer our patients off the backboard even if they were in full spinal precautions this involved at least 3-4 nurses docs one person would stabalize the head and they would be the "leader" and all counts were done by them then it was log-rolling to the bed, then usually putting them in reverse trendelenberg (if they had ICP issues