Zinnia

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  1. Swan Ganz Cath Question

    I am having trouble visualizing all these cables. Does this impact patient mobility at all? Is it anymore problematic than the usual ICU lines? I work in a small rural ICCU, nine beds, where docs are not putting in Swans like they used too. You have ...
  2. Swan Ganz Cath Question

    We do not use the iced injectate either, but still stock the equipment for it. I have only used it as a trouble shooting method, when things are not working. Usually just getting a cool IV bag off the shelf is all it takes. I have heard of the conti...
  3. What is Forensic nursing?

    I heard a nurse with a master's in forensics speak at a workshop. She was the county coroner.
  4. Nurses who smoke

    "I don't get to leave the floor when I need a break from the floor." Take your break.
  5. Woman refuses CS, charged with murder

    Because the woman said she did not want to be cut from breastbone to pelvic bone, it makes me wonder what teaching she had. The scars for C-section are actually very small aren't they? And because the woman presented herself to the health care system...
  6. help needed

    My son sustained a basilar fracture, frontal subdural hematoma and a fractured left tib/fib. He is getting along well with crutches and so far, with my other son home from college, my husband and I can both still work and have someone watch him. Tha...
  7. help needed

    My son is coming home after an accident with head trauma. He has deficits with verbal memory and insight/judgement. I need internet resouces for things I can do at home to help him. I am an ICU nurse and this is a bit out of my league.
  8. Do you use the trendelenberg position?

    Trendelenberg position puts pressure on the carotid sinus and you get a false improvement. Yes, the numbers 'look' better. http://www.jems.com/jems/e0302k.html
  9. On-line BSN

    I am attending University of Phoenix online. My associates degree put me as a Junior, with mostly upper level classes. I had a couple classes that I had taken independently at the local community college and UOP accepted them. There are three profice...
  10. IV push d50 thur 24 butterfly

    It would be damn hard to do. And you might blow your access as well.
  11. A-lines

    This is a new idea for me! Unless my artline starts to be inaccurate, or positional, we don't do anything special. We try to keep the arm with the artline above the bed covers and zero and calibrate once a shift. They are usually sutured.
  12. We just had a memo that our skilled care unit is closing, due to losing money on medicare. We will use those beds for acute care, and we will need them! The other city hospital is dying. Our hospital hopes to transfer appropriate patients to local nu...
  13. Bullies in the workplace

    I feel fortunate that I work with a very professional group of nurses. We have found that we need each other too much to try pushing each others buttons. I have noticed how the more senior nurses will 'grill' a younger nurse during report. Even me, s...
  14. Medication Nurse?

    I have seen the floors do this, I work in ICCU. It seems to me they waste a nurse taking patients,when I feel every nurse should be giving her own meds anyway.
  15. Chronic Tardiness

    The best "when a patient is in trouble or crashing" nurse is chronically late, if fact, we call her ten minute mary. But the fact is at least once a month she oversleeps and is a good HOUR late. She was employee of the year for 2001. She knows everyo...