mabell52

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1. I do not care anymore

   mabell52 replied to JB2007's topic in General Nursing

   Sounds like you may have Compassion Fatigue. Take a vacation and someone else suggested or go and pamper yourself with a spa day. I get that way at times when our Press Ganey scores come out. We bust our butts for the patients and their families, ...

2. Yelling Doctors, How do you handle them?????

   mabell52 replied to Danielle7's topic in Relations

   Hang up! You do not have to put up with this verbal abuse. Just tell him that you are unable to carry on a conversation with him while he is so upset. Then hang up. I have seen it done and it worked very well.

3. Oscillators & sedation

   mabell52 replied to cannew304's topic in PICU

   We keep our patients who are on HFV paralyzed utilizing a train of 4 to titrate their vec drip. They are also on sedation drips also. I am from CA incase you were interested as to how diffrent states work.

4. acuity based staffing ratio

   mabell52 replied to picucrn's topic in PICU

   We use a system called WinPFS. It is an Acuity, Productivity and Benchmaking system. I am not sure how they came up with the numbers that are assigned to the diffrent sections but for us it is pretty close to what we staff. We use it as a guidline...

5. HIT in Pediatric Patients

   mabell52 posted a topic in PICU

   There is some discussion in our PICU about the continued use of Heparin in our art and cvp lines. What is the practice out there in other PICUs? Have you had many cases of Heparin Induced Thrombocytopenia in your pediatric patients.

6. How to deal with death of toddler death on picu..

   mabell52 replied to nd deb's topic in PICU

   I am sorry for your loss. I will never forget a comment that was made to me 2 days after I was accepted into a nursing program. You see I watch my son get hit by a car. I was frozen and didn't know what to do. When he finally cried, I became unf...