AdvTechSondra

AdvTechSondra has 13 years experience and specializes in Post Partum, PICU, CRRT, Divahood.

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1. I'm sick of taking care of people who don't care

   AdvTechSondra replied to FireStarterRN's topic in General Nursing

   Wow, this post has definitely sparked a lot of discussion. On many points I agree, that a patient who refuses 'health maintenance care' (ie dialysis) shouldn't be sent to the ED/ICU because clearly he doesn't want to live or makes a choice to be 'no...

2. Nurse to patient ratios and acuity in YOUR PICU

   AdvTechSondra replied to NotReady4PrimeTime's topic in PICU

   1: what level of care does your unit provide? (do you have a cardiac surgery program? do you have an ecls/crrt program? do you have a transport team? transplants? neurosurgery? complex ent? trauma?) we do everything except ecmo and transplants 2: ho...

3. ECMO in the PICU or peds cardiac ICU

   AdvTechSondra replied to CANewRN's topic in PICU

   We do ECMO in both the PICU and CICU, mostly the PICU

4. CRRT

   AdvTechSondra replied to NotReady4PrimeTime's topic in PICU

   I hope this thread is still current. We started our CRRT program nearly 5 years ago in our PICU. I kinda felt like someone who was given the task of starting a lemonade stand who had to build the stand, grow the lemons figure out how to make lemona...

5. Problems with PICU nurses

   AdvTechSondra replied to NeoRNtobe's topic in PICU

   I've been a PICU nurse for a little more than 11 yrs and like others have seen one or two 'addicts' also with other issues. I feel that on the whole most 'good' PICU nurses are a little OCD, Perfectionist and pay close attention to detail...these ch...