fsutallyrn

fsutallyrn has 13 years experience and specializes in critical care, med-surge.

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1. Is your hospital discontinuing isolation precautions?

   fsutallyrn replied to gypsyd8's topic in Safety

   Have not heard of this. Interesting!

2. we will be having our return demonstartion regarding Physical Examination....

   fsutallyrn replied to ms.pebbles's topic in General Students

   Practice, Practice, Practice is what it takes. It definitely helps to say everything out loud as you are performing the assessment as it reinforces the information. Like previous posts mentioned use the same head to toe format every time, eventually ...

3. What are the staffing ratios in your state?

   fsutallyrn replied to Barras's topic in General Nursing

   Northern Florida medical-surgical floor: days 5-6:1 nights 6-7:1 progressive care unit (cardiac) and pediatrics 4:1 Intermediate care (ICU step down) 3:1 ICU 2:1 These ratios vary depending on the acuity of the patients. If an ICU patient needs 1:1...

4. New RN applying for Jobs

   fsutallyrn replied to NursieN's topic in General Nursing

   I recently had a GN send me ( manager of a med-surge unit) a card explaining how she loved her rotation on our unit while in school. In the card she talked about how much she learned on the unit and how excited she was to have graduated and to start ...

5. who cannot care for ventilated TB pts?

   fsutallyrn replied to elizadream's topic in MICU

   Wow. Our policy is that anyone even being tested for Tb be in a negative pressure room, immediately. Also, I agree with the others. When I was pregnant there were certain instances when I was worried about catching things from the patients. And we wo...

6. pneumococcal vaccination

   fsutallyrn replied to golfnurse's topic in Quality Improvement

   We include a vaccine screening page with each admission, if the vaccine is indicated the order is scanned to pharmacy and the nurse adds it to the MAR to be given the next day at 0800. The screening tool is then placed in the MD orders and allows th...

7. What does your hospital provide for ICU orientation?

   fsutallyrn posted a topic in MICU

   Just wondering what ICU orientation is like for other hospitals similar to mine. We have three adult ICU's. One neuro, one cardiac and one that takes cardiovascular surgical, other surgical, and medical patients. After general hospital nursing orient...

8. Using Propofol for sedation on vented pts?

   fsutallyrn replied to Scrubz's topic in MICU

   We use propofol on our vented patients to. I also like it because of its short half life. We tend to use it only short term though (less than 7 days) because it raises the patients triglyceride level and can put them into pancreatitis. We typically ...

9. Using Propofol for sedation on vented pts?

   fsutallyrn replied to Scrubz's topic in General Nursing

   We use propofol on our vented patients to. I also like it because of its short half life. We tend to use it only short term though (less than 7 days) because it raises the patients triglyceride level and can put them into pancreatitis. We typically ...

10. MSN or MBA

    fsutallyrn replied to Fiesta Red's topic in Management

    I have similar goals as you and I just currently enrolled in a dual degree program at the University of Phoenix (MSN/MBA) with a focus on healthcare management. All of the classes are online. I will take one class every 6 weeks and finish in 30-36 mo...

11. Do you think the pain scale is accurate?

    fsutallyrn replied to flashpoint's topic in General Nursing

    Just wanted to say, that even though this maybe the first real painful situation for these moms it can still be a ten. Before giving birth (when I was younger, but still an adult) I had a broken mandible and maxilla with my mouth wired shut for 6 wee...

12. Views on New Grads Entering Critical Care

    fsutallyrn replied to ICUNurse11's topic in CCU

    We have new grads coming into our ICU all the time. Some of them do well and some don't. I think it all depends on the person. I tend to see that those with some prior experience tend to have a less difficult time however. I think I sometimes have pr...

13. Cardioversion

    fsutallyrn replied to hosierynurse's topic in CCU

    Hi Kristin, funny that is my name too! I have had heart troubles like you. I began having palpatations that would make me short of breath, and dizzy. I finally captured the rhythm on an EKG ( while I was working) and it was junctional tachycardia. I...