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1. PACU documentation

   meepmeep replied to Carrollrn's topic in PACU

   I guess it depends on your hospital's policies. I've only ever worked in one PACU. The PACU I work at doesn't do any neuro surgery but we do document PERRLA, vision, and oculomotor check for all sinus surgery patients since a loss of vision/abnormali...

2. Does your ICU use CHG wipes for bathing patients?

   meepmeep replied to fatrabbit's topic in Critical

   In the last couple of years, our medicine wards only used them for bathing MRSA pts and they are used for the pre-operative wash before OR for surgical patients. Otherwise all med-surg wards just use the no rinse spray cleanser. But all our critica...

3. Phase 1 PACU used as pre-op

   meepmeep replied to chickhatz's topic in PACU

   I'm from British Columbia. We have 12 bays in our PACU, 4 step down unit beds near by (which sometimes admits patients directly from OR if the other 12 bays are full) with 11 ORs running. We have no call bells. We have to give our patients those s...

4. Medical-Surgical to Recovery Room

   meepmeep replied to brownladyRN's topic in PACU

   I'm still new to the recovery room after working in an ortho/general surgery ward for 6 years. PACU can be just as demanding and stressful as ward nursing as PACU is considered a critical care area and patients can be unstable. We even get ICU over...

5. ECG help, atrial rate?

   meepmeep replied to meepmeep's topic in Student Assist

   Thanks for the tips. The calipers did make identifying the distance between P waves easier and I managed to get the same atrial rate as the book for the mobitz I blocks. However, for the mobitz II blocks, the book seems to give weird numbers that w...

6. ECG help, atrial rate?

   meepmeep posted a topic in Student Assist

   Hi there, I need help. I'm working through the "ECG Workout" book by Jane Huff in preparation for going back to school in September. I'm in the chapter that discusses junctional arrhythmias and AV blocks and for the life of me, I can't seem to under...

7. Scared and don't know what to do...

   meepmeep replied to meepmeep's topic in New Nurse

   Wow, I can't believe you guys have a way better orientation. Sadly, none of the health authorities here offer an orientation longer than a month. I'm only able to request an extra week or two of orientation at most. My situation is actually pretty...

8. Scared and don't know what to do...

   meepmeep posted a topic in New Nurse

   I'm so scared and don't know what to do or what is actually going to happen to me. I just finished nursing school in Dec 2008 and started my first job as a RN on a cardiac surgical floor in Feb 09. I don't even know why I applied for cardiac nursing,...

9. CRNE feb 2009

   meepmeep replied to ol221's topic in CRNE

   I passed! Now one less thing to worry about. lol. I'm from BC. Congrats to everyone else and goodluck!

10. Crne feb 2009 exam

    meepmeep replied to Ymanuel's topic in International

    Yikes... I'm scared. I'm writing the CRNE in feb too. I've been trying to get through the Mosby's comprehensive review book, and I'm only half way. My average scores from Mosby has only been 64%-68% so I'm feeling kind of hopeless. Mosby's is so tech...