nursingdude78

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1. What is a good sedative for a hypotensive patient?

   nursingdude78 replied to nursingdude78's topic in CCU

   For some reason our hospital does not do Versed drips, just Ativan. I kind of assumed that Versed would act similarly to Ativan when combined with Fentanyl.

2. What is a good sedative for a hypotensive patient?

   nursingdude78 posted a topic in CCU

   I had a patient that was dropping her pressure on propofol, switched her to ativan and fentanyl drips, and it was just as bad. She was on 20 mcg dopamine and 250 mcg of neosynephrine, definitely was not hypovolemic. Would you try ativan alone, or f...

3. I'm in at case western 2010!!! Anyone else??

   nursingdude78 replied to SCVICURN's topic in SRNA

   I liked a lot of what I saw when I interviewed at Case. It sounds like they accept a wide variety of people. I had never heard anything about them only accepting younger people until I read it on this forum. Hopefully that is not true. It was a t...

4. I'm in at case western 2010!!! Anyone else??

   nursingdude78 replied to SCVICURN's topic in SRNA

   Hopefully you get in to some other programs. I was the same way when I interviewed. I asked a ton of questions and basically interviewed them. I liked that Case Western starts their clinical training early and you get over 900 cases under your bel...

5. I'm in at case western 2010!!! Anyone else??

   nursingdude78 replied to SCVICURN's topic in SRNA

   It is a bummer to wait so long for an answer. They are not breaking their admission rules though. You have to have 1 year ICU experience before the program starts, so someone who graduated in May can qualify to attend school in August of the follow...

6. I'm in at case western 2010!!! Anyone else??

   nursingdude78 replied to SCVICURN's topic in SRNA

   I took stats 9 years ago, all the other programs I applied to are fine with that. All the MSN anesthesia programs have nursing theory, but the MS in Nurse Anesthesia programs do not have nursing theory, their didactic is more focused on the hard sci...

7. Interviews for KPSAN

   nursingdude78 replied to 2007graduate's topic in SRNA

   Yea, same here. I thought we would have heard by mid January.

8. I'm in at case western 2010!!! Anyone else??

   nursingdude78 replied to SCVICURN's topic in SRNA

   I got my letter last week. Have not decided yet if I will attend Case Western or go elsewhere. I have to take Stats again in order to attend Case :-( Also all the nursing theory classes do not excite me.

9. Multiple Drips - Did I do the right thing?

   nursingdude78 replied to nursingdude78's topic in CCU

   That could explain the bicarb drip possibly. I am not positive if dye/contrast was used.

10. Multiple Drips - Did I do the right thing?

    nursingdude78 replied to nursingdude78's topic in CCU

    She had initially been bradycardic and that was the reason to wean the dopamine last. She became acutely hypotensive I suppose because of the A-fib which started at a rate of 110-120 , but eventually got up to the 140's before I got the Amio started...

11. Multiple Drips - Did I do the right thing?

    nursingdude78 posted a topic in CCU

    I had a patient with cardiomyopathy and 2nd degree type 2 HB that went in for an elective PPM placement, during the procedure, she got a hemothorax and was brought to our unit. I had her that night. She was vented, on a bicarb drip, dopamine, neo a...

12. Normal CVP?

    nursingdude78 replied to nursingdude78's topic in MICU

    Thank you all for the great input. This was a new order at the time to keep the CVP above 12. The patient did have sepsis.

13. Normal CVP?

    nursingdude78 posted a topic in MICU

    I recently had a patient who had orders to give a 250 ml NS bolus if her CVP dropped below 12. She was on a vent, and 10 mcg of levophed with systolic of 100-115. She had ascities with a lot of fluid in her abdomen. Can someone please explain the ...

14. Why so Interested????

    nursingdude78 replied to Screen name's topic in CRNA

    I may be mistaken, but I thought Perfusionists only made around $60k and on top of that they have a hard time finding jobs? Is this right?

15. New grad will work for free

    nursingdude78 posted a topic in General Nursing

    Hello Everyone, I was recently let go from a critical care fellowship and totally blind-sided by it. My preceptor continually told me that I was doing great, but the management came up with some reasons to let me go (I charted wrong twice on some of...