CCU BSN RN

CCU BSN RN

CICU, Telemetry

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About CCU BSN RN

CCU BSN RN has 7 years experience and specializes in CICU, Telemetry.


5 years in Cardiac Surgery Stepdown 1.5 years in Cardiac Intensive Care

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  1. Feeling incompetent after rapid response

    If you don't work in an ICU, and you don't have more than 3 years of experience.... You did MORE than I would have expected you to be able to do. You identified that longer pauses/lower HR than previous was an issue, checked the patient's blood ...
  2. Covid-19, No Beds, Ugly Stuff

    I'm a little concerned about the concept of a hospital that doesn't own a ventilator or Bipap machine, to the point where I'm having trouble getting past being incredulous about that and actually wrapping my head around your issue. How big is y...
  3. COVID-19: No PPE!!

    If I actually followed our hospital's 'donning and doffing' guidelines every time I entered a COVID room: 1. We would be out of gowns and gloves 2. My patients would be dead, because their levophed would be paused for the 4-6 minutes it wo...
  4. Stressed out - high potential for error in critical care

    I've been in ICU about 5 years. I'm still anxious about messing up and killing someone. I'm less anxious about it now that I have some experience under my belt, but you're at a difficult level of experience right now. You're getting more competent, w...
  5. I believe VERY strongly that we'll just be injected walking into work one day. That's probably how we'll find out there is a vaccine, is a surprise needle. And I also think that's the proper choice (mandatory vaccines for health care workers and hone...
  6. Things like 'Team Nursing' would work so much better if I'd ever met the members of my 'Team' before I was expected to work on a team with them and appropriately delegate patient care tasks to them while also managing a criminally unsafe ICU assignme...
  7. What is a reasonable nurse: patient ratio in ICU?

    Proned patients were always 1:1 before COVID. Paralyzed patients on multiple pressors were always 1:1 before COVID At the beginning of COVID, intubated COVID patients were 1:1 Once we had too many intubated COVID patients to staff at that level, it ...
  8. I think the fiscally responsible upper middle class who have 6-12 months of emergency savings, little to no debt...will do alright. Unfortunately 'fiscally responsible' is a rare breed in our country, given how few people have a thousand dollars in t...
  9. Nah. They kind of can't stop. They basically have PTSD. Imagine if in 2004 you went on a forum of soldiers online and asked if war in the middle east was real or just a media hoax? Maybe in 10 years when we've had therapy, naps, and time...we'll all...
  10. Oh, and someone mentioned 'do they have co-morbids?' Yes. We all do. It's called being an American. We lead a sedentary lifestyle, the VAST majority of us are overweight or obese, everyone drinks and smokes and does drugs like it's still 1995 even th...
  11. ICU nurse in a level 1 trauma center in the north east. We converted 45 of our ICU beds (2 ICUs) to COVID ICUs. They are full of intubated/proned patients with ratios as crappy as 4:1. I've seen more death in the last month than I have in nearly 10 ...
  12. CRNAs Staffing ICUs?

    Marie- they run the drips in our ORs but we have different ventilators, monitors, chart in different programs, they don't know where we keep things on the floor, depending on where they've been working as CRNAs some haven't used many pressors in the ...
  13. Staying in the room with a COVID patient

    Doug we're legit manually proning them. Mind you last night was the first patient I proned who didn't weigh over 120kg. Proning does seem to be the most helpful thing we've done with the ICU COVIDs to actually improve oxygenation and survival in any ...
  14. Masks at the nurse's station

    Yeah from whenever COVID started until about 4 days ago, management would basically give a verbal warning and then take disciplinary action against staff wearing masks outside of designated areas. I wish I had the ingenuity to start shouting report a...
  15. CRNAs Staffing ICUs?

    Our CRNAs were basically told they could get laid off or have their hours seriously reduced, or they could come work as ICU RNs for the remainder of the shenanigans. They've mostly chosen not to work as ICU RNs, and I get it, but we're seriously sho...