TemperStripe

TemperStripe

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About TemperStripe

TemperStripe has 5 years experience and specializes in ICU.


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  1. Regional Float Pool at Centura?

    Yes, I am. Feel free to PM me.
  2. New hospital with agency...no orientation?

    Great, I feel totally vindicated. :) I've set up some additional orientations at these places and feel totally solid that it's the right thing, not just for me but for my patients. Thank you everyone!
  3. Regional Float Pool at Centura?

    I'm with the RFP and I love it. Can't say enough good things about the managers, educator, and schedulers. It's a great fit for me because I hate unit politics and am very protective of my schedule. I float to 6 Centura hospitals and quite a few more...
  4. New hospital with agency...no orientation?

    I have been agency/float full time for almost a year now and have floated to probably 30 different units, but wanted to bounce something off everyone. I just finished paperwork for a large multi-hospital system and also completed a single 4 hour orie...
  5. Light therapy for night shifters?

    I started taking mine to work to use it during breaks and charting and 5 or 6 other nurses ended up buying their own lights. :) I use it mostly during the winter and also take a massive dose of supplemental Vitamin D. Does it help? I dunno...I did fe...
  6. When to call in sick to the SICU

    I have twice made the mistake of NOT calling in sick...thinking I'd be fine and it would pass. I was having sore throat/cold-like symptoms. MISTAKE. Both of those days ended up being some of the worst.days.ever. If in doubt, call in sick. Your physi...
  7. Future of wireless monitoring?

    I have heard it can already be done but who can afford it? Not sure. As economics allow, I definitely think it's the future of the ICU.
  8. Is turning to supine considered a turn?

    Side-Back-Side I posted a few weeks ago about a patient I couldn't turn at all so I just moved his arms and legs whenever possible. Miraculously he didn't have any skin breakdown when I checked him the one time that I could. I've never had a patient...
  9. Light therapy for night shifters?

    I had used melatonin and also found it to be useless. However, I was taking 3-9mg at a time before going to bed. I've been reading that this is way more than the pineal gland ever secretes, and sometimes taking a lower dose (1-2mg) in the sustained r...
  10. Light therapy for night shifters?

    Any night shifters use light therapy and/or sustained release melatonin? Just curious about your experiences with it, especially if you switch back and forth or live in a darkened climate.
  11. Patients who are too unstable to turn

    This particular case was an incredibly unstable pelvic fracture so the wedge wouldn't have worked because the patient needed to be 100% flat, but I will definitely keep that in mind for the future. I agree with the above poster who mentioned feeling ...
  12. Patients who are too unstable to turn

    Does anyone have any suggestions for preventing skin breakdown on a patient that is too unstable to turn? I was moving his arms and legs and tilting the bed hourly at least. And of course, he pooped 3x...of all the patients that you don't want poopin...
  13. OSA in the ICU

    It's because the OSA makes them "high risk." However, many of them don't even have their own CPAPs. They're on room air all night long.
  14. OSA in the ICU

    Obstructive sleep apnea.
  15. OSA in the ICU

    We've had a rash of elective surgeries that have had to stay overnight in the ICU because the patients have OSA. The policy states they have to be in ICU even though they have q shift vitals! I'm talking about tonsillectomies and vasectomies. Anyone ...