nursev2

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1. chest tube removal

   nursev2 replied to corkyrn's topic in CCU

   At my hospital the cardiac surgeon or one of his PAs are also the one who pulls chest tubes. I have personally never done it nor have I been trained to remove chest tubes.

2. I need info on post angio bed rest

   nursev2 replied to Morph's topic in Cardiac

   Where I work we have a new cardiologist who greatly decreases the length of downtime for pts. He only requires 3hrs bedrest post hemostasis even for pts on integrilin and reapro. We have not seen an increase in bleeding complications r/t to this de...

3. Nurse to patient ratios

   nursev2 replied to stellaCat4's topic in Cardiac

   Hi there, I'm an RN in a step-down telemetry unit. Our situation sounds a bit like yours only we do take patients on integrilin and reapro. We are 28 bed unit that takes mostly r/o MIs and any pt needing telemetry that isn't critical enough to be in...