berry

berry has 5 years experience and specializes in ER/SICU.

Latest Activity

1. Medication Errors-Why?

   berry replied to ERGirl83's topic in General Nursing

   YES you are willfully careless when you take a drug and inject it into another human being with out taking the 30 seconds to verify it is the right drug/dose/ ect. It is a decision that is made each...

2. Medication Errors-Why?

   berry replied to ERGirl83's topic in General Nursing

   Most of the "reasons" listed so far are not reasons, but excuses "too busy/many/much". The reason every med error is made is carelessness. Not just on the part of the RN but and the whole system....

3. Nimbex IVP

   berry replied to OKRN's topic in General Nursing

   I am not sure what he meant to say, but I am just emphasizing that it is not or even close to a conscious sedation drug. There is no need for 1:1 watching the only need is for the patient to be...

4. Nimbex IVP

   berry replied to OKRN's topic in General Nursing

   paralytics are not conscious sedation

5. Nimbex IVP

   berry replied to OKRN's topic in General Nursing

   I hope it is being used in an intubating situation or for paralysis of an intubated pt. Nimbex is a nondepolarizing skeletal muscle relaxant. It should only be given to a patient with someone present...

6. Anyone attend CAMC?

   berry replied to TNSICU's topic in Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist

   I am currently a sr at camc feel free to send any questions

7. The Order...

   berry replied to punkstar's topic in Emergency

   I would grab a 250 cc bag of NS pull out 100 cc put a amp of Ca gluconate the amp of bicarb the insulin and the D50 in it and put it on a minidripper and let it go. Some sources will say that Ca++...

8. My First Day In The Ed And I Feel Like The Unit Idiot!!!

   berry replied to scrubs2716's topic in Emergency

   To hell with her.... First off grab a crash cart, I assume that almost anything she could want should be in it(a personal pet peeve of mine people running for stuff we stock in a crash cart just for...

9. Arterial line insertion by the RN

   berry replied to CactusFlower's topic in MICU, SICU

   As far as painful sticks, try numbing the site with lidocaine just like an Iv start. If you are not starting them offer this up for whoever is. There is no reason for patients to just deal with the...

10. Special treament of a patient with money

    berry replied to jbp0529's topic in General Nursing

    My guess is while she may expect some special treatment alot of the "special care" is the idea of the hospital admin. I remember one pt I had old money lawyer,his wife a docter. We rolled out the red...

11. Use of Diprovan in your ER

    berry replied to TRAMA1RN's topic in Emergency

    WOW what a contradiction first off you can not handle any airway all the time and that cowboy mentality is why an incredible number of ERs have an open lawsuit at any given time (not related to...

12. Why Do Crna Gets Paid So Much?

    berry replied to disboibdavid's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    The reason anesthesia pays more. You talk in terms of resuscitating somebody's kid. I talk about taking a healthy living breathing child and rendering them unconscious and insensible while using...

13. Nitrates, Desaturation & pulmonary shunting

    berry replied to Toby's mum's topic in CCU, Coronary, Cardiac

    Hypoxic pulmonary vasoconstriction(HPV) is a physiological response in which pulmonary arteries constrict in the presence of hypoxia without hypercapnia. This leads to redirecting blood flow to...

14. Ice for a vented patient???

    berry replied to OkieICU_RN's topic in MICU, SICU

    When pts are coughing or bucking the vent the most likely cause for the alarm is increased airway pressures. When you are suctioning most likely alarm is for disconnect, if not using an inline...

15. Rule of 8

    berry replied to Palamejo's topic in CCU, Coronary, Cardiac

    Not sure if this is, what you are talking about but it is a rule about abgs and has an 8 in it. I always heard it as the golden rule. It is used to calculate if the patient's deviation from normal...