- How honest is TOO honest?
- Medical errors
- Pulling Sheaths on a Cardiac Stepdown
- Use of SCD's post-cardiac arrest?
- Er rn going to icu
- staffing needs in 5 bed ICU with telemetry from M-S floor
- I don't know if I should really take this opportunity?
- suggestion for my Phd
- What to expect after CABG
- ECCO Program
- CCU and new graduate
- My micu interview
- hyponatremia and anemia?
- Intershift Report in the CCU
- Swan- Pa question
- CCRNs -CMC exam?
- Staffing Ratio for VAD Patients
- Does your facility aspirate blood before removing a sheath?
- Ventilaion post CABG
- CT output & notifying MD
- post cardiac cath
- patient monitoring equipment
- IV Dobutamine Calculation!!
- A Good CCRN Prep?
- conflicting information about ways to diagnose CAD
- Charge Nurse on a 40 Bed Telemetry Unit
- IV Dobutamine
- elevated troponin cause
- CCU/ICU NCLEX style questions...
- Rapid Response Team Members: Input desired!
- Just a reminder re: Diltiazem drip !
- ETT suctioning/ mouthcare video's
- looking for some cardiac experts
- New Grad entering CCU/ICU..opinions?
- My Dad is in CVICU...need help!!
- Frequency of running/documenting telemetry strips
- FIVE family members in a crowded ICU rm all night long!
- Cath Lab Nursing Help
- IV Methylene blue post OHS vasoplegia
- New grad wanting to go into Critical Care area- Advice needed!
- Infection Prevention And Tracking
- Care for Diabetics after Open Heart Surgery
- SICU/MICU vs CCU
- Serum potassium levels in code situation
- Needing an advance practice nurse to interview
- APACHE II scoring system
- AF - sympathetic response to?
- Hemodynamic monitoring
- Describe the role of a cath lab nurse
- SWANS - Wedging
- Need expertise: where to focus practice?
- ADC 657 stethoscope?
- What did I see???
- Cath Lab questions
- Acls
- Liver transplant med surge nurse to CCU-OVERWHELMED, wants to quit
- bored already?
- Trasducer leveling
- Patient Ratio Concerns
- CMC-is this enough?
- Mind/Concept map for CHF/CCF patient
- dialysis nurse thinking about switching to cvicu
- temporary pacemaker
- Vital Sign & I/O Assessment frequency
- Question about meds and PCI
- Awsome Link: Intern Suvival Guide- ACLS & more
- Newbie
- Hypothermia post cardiac arrest
- ARDS + prone position
- New grad to CVICU?
- ARDS + narcotic overdose
- Nursing Training
- Mean Arterial Pressure
- PVC's
- Mediastinal Bleeding and Turning
- What do you think?
- QRS axis change
- floating and new admits to ccu
- Poll: esophagectomy patients
- Transvenous Pacemaker
- Have any of you ever had to turn in a coworker for drug use
- Trop T vs I
- turning pt when failure to capture
- looking for ccu training for rn in Philly
- New to CCU and need advice on good resource guide and drug book!
- Portacaths
- Vitamin E
- Critical care staffing and mandatory overtime
- IV Dobutamine + homecare
- K+ levels: fingerstick or venous. help,,,
- Cardiac Nursing Protocols/Research
- Triple-Lumen Qestion
- Central line question
- Rythym question
- Dnr/dni?
- Troponin question
- Thanks
- NYP:Message for IHeart
- Post-Surgical Cardiovascular ICU Books???
- Reasoning against pushing meds through a-line?
- icu formats
- Art-Line System
- CVP and PAD
- IABP and CPR
- HELP!!! OB nurse transferring to ICU
- New to CVICU (Peds) Conference Question
- Opening a new heart program
- ED - Common Meds
- New to Cardiac Surgery ICU and need guidance
- Don't touch that!
- EKG and Axis
- 3rd Degree Block with Junctional Escape
- ARDS criteria formula
- New Grad Nurse in CVICU ????
- electrolytes & our heart
- Smetimes I wonder why I try! (long)
- How frequent BP's on vasoactive meds?
- OK to push Dig IV without a monitor?
- Milking chest tubes
- Bed Baths
- Mouth care on ventilator patients
- CCU advice
- Nervous!!!! Help!!
- Question regarding CCRN eligibility.
- what do you guys think of my working conditions?
- What liability coverage do you carry?
- Cvicu,cvrr, Cicu, Ccu
- Nursing student as tech in CSU/CVICU
- V-fib after Asystole
- New to the forums and to CCU
- Cvicu
- When pulling sheaths after a cath...
- Need Help with a Situation/ST depression
- Cvicu
- Free CCRN Review Program
- Which unit is more relaxed?
- Ccrn
- Critical Care training program...
- Wide complex SVT versus VT
- Need help with a resume - open heart
- CCRN discouragement?
- ear creases and heart disease
- CCU nurse needs pearls of wisdom
- Cmc?
- The eternal K+ debate
- Bowel Management
- Links for Mobilisation of the patient following AMI
- Pericardiocentesis/Pericardial window-whats the diff?
- week nurse in strong hospital
- Who order's vaccines??
- IV cannula size/ overtesting
- easy way to remember drips...
- Lasix gtt
- Need to Make Decision...HELP
- What would you do for this patient?
- CV competency
- caps for ultrafiltration catheters
- how many years to travel???
- unsafe assignment? (long - sorry)
- CCU nursing fellowship
- CCU Essay Topic
- Book for CV-ICU
- When to measure PCWP
- arterial & venous sheath
- CMC Exam
- PICU-ICN to Cardiathro ICU
- CCU/ICU what are your pt:nurse ratios?
- Offered postion in Cath Lab.. any insight?
- MYNX Closure Device, any one else having problems with the NEW MYNX closure device
- ST changes--diagnostic?
- new job in post-op open heart
- Transition from NICU to Cardiac Cath Lab?
- Telemetry
- Ct-icu
- New to CVICU
- Critical care hospital acquired infection
- What do you like about CVICU/CCU?
- Steroid ques.
- ECCO to teach CCU
- ICD info please
- Surgical and non surgical bleeding post op cardiac surgery
- Floating
- what tubing are you using
- Coumadin teaching protocol?
- Adult Critical Care Course/New grad
- MICU to CICU?
- asthma - cardiovascular effects
- Anyone going to TRENDS in Pa?
- ?? re: giving drugs through a maintenence infusiong
- Need ACLS Power Point file
- IABP class coming up
- CICU internship..
- 4 hour code blue
- CPR question
- Mom to a 2 year old and looking for better schedule.
- Arterial Line Setup
- Critical Care Nursing Journals
- New to CV ICU from NICU! Yikes
- wanting experience in ccu
- Type of hours needed for CCRN
- CCU - Cocaine may cause symptoms of MI
- Yes. another ECG question
- Question about unresponsive patient.
- Float Nurse Education
- returning to ccu after long absence
- How To Determine ET Tube Placement
- Key Retention Strategies for Community Hospitals
- Cardio-respiratory arrest w/respiratory acidosis
- Nursing Care Guidelines In Percutaneous Coronary And Valvular Interventions
- VADs--Ventricular Assistive Devices
- drawing a mix venous blood sample
- Npeptide,....
- Pearls of Wisdom
- Need feedback
- ICU nurses impact on paitients and their families...?
- How do I ignore the higH tension level at work?
- question regarding pacemakers and death
- post op CABG anorexia??
- ICU Nurse role...
- pa lines/swan ganz
- Tinsel Test question
- Drips
- help needed for calculating drip rates
- Best heart center In US?
- Monitor and IV pump Alarms, I hear them im my sleep
- Looking for info on CTU's vs Cardiac Stepdown Units
- New CCU nurse needs encouragement
- Smart Cardiac Nurses
- CCRN format
- Shooting Bubbles during TEE
- A-Wire Tips
- Taking the CMC exam
- Family presence
- Moral Distress Research
- Doing role transition in CVICU. What are the drugs I should know
- Fresh tidbits on surviving a cardiacstepdown
- Cardiac nurses please :)
- Is 1 year exp. too soon for CCRN?
- Rough Nights at Work
- NS school preceptorship--ICU?
- CVICU folks, What's your longest pump runs?
- Dopamine drip
- Potassium Chloride IV
- 7 months of Telemetry enough to tansfer to the CCU?
- Preceptorship
- Lopressor drip
- CCU position eludes me again
- ICU Nurses... Voice Your Opinion
- Resume for new grad
- scope of practice