mawwriter

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1. Question for CCU or ICU nurses

   mawwriter replied to mawwriter's topic in General Nursing

   StacieRN and everyone else who commented -- Thanks! Thank you, too, StacieRN, for stopping by the site. This is a wonderful community you nurses of every ilk have created. Any other professional group would be envious if they could see how you inter...

2. Question for CCU or ICU nurses

   mawwriter replied to mawwriter's topic in General Nursing

   StacieRN, thank you. Of course, I know that not everybody's response would be identical, but I did make adjustments because I want everything to be fairly authentic. I won't post the whole thing here again, so I hope this link works for anybody who ...

3. Question for CCU or ICU nurses

   mawwriter replied to mawwriter's topic in General Nursing

   Thanks to all who posted replies. I was ready to publish (I'm posting it online as I write it, first draft), so I quickly took all your input and re-worked this chapter. Here it stands: Bernie felt she was being carried, cradled like a baby. Warm a...

4. Question for CCU or ICU nurses

   mawwriter replied to mawwriter's topic in General Nursing

   CardiacRN2006 - Thanks for those details about what you would do! This also helps me decide how long I'll have her in a coma, because this isn't a story about a long rehab process. This is part 10 of the story, BTW.

5. Question for CCU or ICU nurses

   mawwriter replied to mawwriter's topic in General Nursing

   jerzytech, it wasn't quite as simple as "Well, gee, here's a red button." But that was pretty funny. Here is the scene so far, without any expert input (I was guessing about the nurse's actions) : Now she was lying on her back, dull pain running thr...

6. Question for CCU or ICU nurses

   mawwriter replied to mawwriter's topic in General Nursing

   This is excellent, jerzytech! Just the type of thing I was looking for. I'm sure the scene as I have it now would have looked pretty silly to all of you experts. Thank you very much. Anybody closer to this type of work have any input on protocol f...

7. Question for CCU or ICU nurses

   mawwriter posted a topic in General Nursing

   I'm writing a novella online and one of my characters has been critically wounded via stabbing. She wakes to find herself in an ICU room and presses her call button. Here's my question, and I would greatly appreciate any information you can provide:...