I'm trying to figure out which unit would be the best experience for entrance into CRNA school. These are the units: CCU, SICU, MICU, Heart Transplant, Post-Cardiothoracic Surgery (mostly post-op CABG patients).
Maybe I just have different views, but I don't believe in actually causing death. I think a propofol drip "titrated to total sedation/unconsciousness" is a little bit inappropiate. There's a difference between making someone comfortable (using morphi...
I don't think its "totally inappropriate" depending on how the class is set up and what your experience. At the ACLS I just took, we spent the 1st day going over information in the book, and the second day testing out. In fact, I didn't study or look...
That frequency you just mentioned is for the mental health patient. I can speak firmly to the medical side. Restraints have to be reissued every 24 hours- not 24.5 hours, 24, although they can be sooner. Emergancy restraints can be placed but the ph...
Don't beat yourself up over it. It was a communication error on both parts. I think the physican was wanting you to pull out that much, and not give.... Thankfully, the patient was still successfully intubated.
I would have called. The patient had a pretty variable BP change from baseline and I would have about the drop just to cover my butt. She wasn't able to check urine output since the patient didn't have a foley. The only thing I wouldn't have done wa...
I just moved from New York to New Jersey. At the new hospital I work at, if the census is low they would call people off. But how they do it here is very different from NY. At the new hospital, if the census was low, they would rotate who got called...
If the kid has a PIV, we'll try anything to get blood off of it. Today I turned a kid upside down to get it off a scalp PIV. It was either that, or a tourniquet (but I couldn't figure out where to put it).
I'm confused and need some advice about a patient of mine today. So if anyone could give me some insight that would be fantastic! FYI- I'm a new grad off of 3 days off of PICU orientation with little neuro experience. The patient- Shaken baby. Multi...