debthern

debthern

NICU, PACU, Pediatrics

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About debthern

debthern has 16 years experience and specializes in NICU, PACU, Pediatrics.


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  1. all PACU RNs Wrote up!

    We have to have an anesthesia note signed before our patients can be discharged but it has nothing to do with our practice it is because if it is not signed medicare will not pay
  2. On-call pay...standard or not?

    We have an interesting call situation during the week in that we are on call Mon-Fri for the full week, we get paid for 40 hours and work in the unit 2 6 hour shifts during the day and then are on call at night, we also have a night shift Mon-Thurs s...
  3. Transition from computer to paper charting

    we recently went to computer and while I have gotten used to it I still feel that patient care is suffering
  4. New PACU Nurse

    :chuckle omg this is exactly what I say a dozen times a day and then they fall back to sleep and wake up and say when am I going to have my operation
  5. I Hate Surg!!!

    guess I am a little confused about the no verbal/telephone orders...is the doctor supposed to get up in the middle of the night and drive to the hospital to write an order? You would have alot of people needed meds cause I can tell you the docs I wor...
  6. I Hate Surg!!!

    All of our drugs are ordered based on patient weight not age but if you are taking a phone order you should know what the safe dose is...We don't take verbal orders but we do take phone orders but need another nurse to verify what the doctor said if ...
  7. Patient assignments

    we are assigned 2 nurses for each 3 slots we alternate who gets a pt and example is nurse a and b are in slot 1,2,3 nurse a gets slot 1 and nurse b slot 3 nurse a gets a pt and they both get the patient settled, then nurse b will get one which they b...
  8. Cardiac Sheaths

    Our pediatric PACU was informed that we would begin pulling sheaths at the bedside and no longer in the Cath lab is this appropriate? Is it done in other hospitals? Are the patients still sedated as ours will not be? HELP!!!
  9. Does each unit have a procedural manual

    our hospital has all the manuals on the intranet it's under Policy and Procedures. Good luck
  10. Who numbs for needlesticks?

    We use lmx4 in our preop dept and also use lidocaine depends on how old the patient is
  11. Sorry to vent but we started computer charting today and it was horrible we were totally unprepared and had to put the OR on hold more then once...
  12. we have clinical ladder at our work we get 10% for each of the two steps...it was some extra work but not that bad and definitely worth the extra pay
  13. Families can now call the code team

    We have a care team here that the families can call...it isn't our Code team but a team that comes and evaluates
  14. Post op Pedicatric transports without an RN

    we have cna's who transport all patients if they are not on a monitor, do not have an epidural or a chest tube...of course the nurse transport the icu patients
  15. PACU RN requirements

    something we do is we assign 2 nurses to 3 bays which allows you to put a more experienced nurse with a less experienced one...