I have a question about blood cultures. I'm a PICU nurse. We have pts w dialysis lines a lot. Temporary, permanent, subclavian, femoral. Seen nearly them all. We are good at hep locks/ citrate locks/ even been seeing some TPA locked lines. We are wel...
We recently had to present a diploma to be able to run out ISTAT machines. They didn't even care what diploma it was. I couldn't find my one from nursing school so I brought in my one from my BA in anthropology. Honestly, I have zero idea why. The m...
Peds ICU nurse is slightly freaking out about that question. There has been no research about what about of air could be harmful to a Peds pt. in a "heathy" kid it might be ok. In a kid w a PFO, deadly. Air emboi are no joke. I've taken care of a ge...
We dual sign off all infusions at shift change. A couple nurses read drips as "migs per kig per hour" I don't know why it gets to me. Please, "milligrams per kilogram per hour"
Not where I work. If you have 'a disease of childhood' or have been refinery followed by one of the doc at our childrens hospital u end up in PICU. I really have had a 60 year old pt. it's fun looking at the central monitors and wondering if that HR...
Try PICU nursing. Every speciality rolled into one. Ages 1 day- 60+ years. Ecmo, crrt, codes, multiple sizes I've every every single device. Kiddos can be fine one second and just crump the next. Every single day we are seeing new things. On top of t...
In re: mistakes. We ALL make them. Best thing you can do is learn why is was a mistake, why it happened, and how you will never let it happen again. Keep your chin up. Nursing is hard. I bet teaches don't fill the guilt like we do when they grade a p...
AMR21 replied to Fruit Sucker's topic in Medications
I must work at Fort Knox. Everything but saline flushes and sterile water for reconstituting meds like vec is in the Pyxis or comes from pharmacy. And to override anything we need 2 RNs. And once something is an override it pops up as a big purple li...
AMR21 replied to Fruit Sucker's topic in Medications
Without the NS order how are you pulling the 50 ml bag from the Pyxis? How are you charging the pt for said bag? Perhaps where I work is just strict and MDs are understanding. But I would get an order.