ICUmanager

ICUmanager has 12 years experience and specializes in ICU, Telemetry.

Latest Activity

1. Do all of your vented pt's get restrained?

   ICUmanager replied to JHUBRAIN's topic in MICU

   We restrain our vented patients about 80% of the time. I've seen many vented patients that can tolerate the ETT without a bunch of sedation and/or restraints. However, we often restrain during periods of sleeping or sedation due to the patient poss...

2. Ice for a vented patient???

   ICUmanager replied to OkieICU_RN's topic in MICU

   You may want to look at some research on this. This has been against practice standards for more than 17 years now!!! It appears to work, but you are actually doing more harm than good. I wouldn't want you caring for any of my loved ones if you ar...

3. Vented Patient Should A Minimal Experienced Nurse Be Caring For A Vented Patient?

   ICUmanager replied to SOMA's topic in MICU

   Is your travel contract in the ICU? I believe that if you were uncomfortable with caring for vented patients that it should have been made clear during the assignment of such a patient. Also, we have always had travelers that had their skills/experie...

4. Orientation-Staffing

   ICUmanager replied to mjscan_07's topic in MICU

   I believe this is completely unsafe for the patients and the staff. I would have the ICU nurses go to their manager and if nothing gets done I would go above the manager. I'm sure your manager and administration would not want a nurse caring for th...

5. Need advice - New Grad starting SICU

   ICUmanager replied to Michellem0322's topic in MICU

   I see a lot of new graduates do very well in the ICU and I've also seen others do poorly. I believe that you must really.... want to work in the ICU first and then you must also have a lot of self initiative and motivation to get the experiences you...