My unit takes hearts post op day 2. We rely on percocet 5 or 7.5 q4 (1 tablet) or q6 (2 tablet). If that is not adquate, we get IV morphine, dilaudid, toradol, or talwin depending on the surgeon. We get our patients to the chair on day of transfer a...
Just came home from another shift. Nurses who are already scheduled overtime this week will be mandated to stay past their eight hour shift because we have TWO NURSES for 28 beds. Because we were only scheduled three (due to severe staffing issues) a...
I've been in health care for about 5 years both EMS/hospital. Up until last summer, all the places I worked had nitrile gloves. However, since the summer I've been using non-powdered latex. Well, now I am awaiting my blood work for a suspected latex ...
I was getting a telephone order to test for possible HIT. The surgeon said to order HIPA.. well, I was tired and said, "HIPAA? Test for privacY?" He just laughed and told me I needed a day off.
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I find it helps to know why they are on each medication. Is the EF low? Am I trying to increase cardiac output or coronary perfusion? How have they tolerated the meds in the past? Am I trying to keep them in sinus rhythm?
my floor gets a lot of post-op CABG patients.. they often come with a cordis...that I love for selfish reasons.. mainly I have great access and I don't have to worry about nurse collect draws in the AM.
Yeah, we don't have L&D. The hospital had different campus and mother&baby is on the other side of town. We did try the ED, waited half hour to borrow their doppler...they won't loan it for whatever reason. When I took report from the ED, t...
I had a question regarding fetal heart tones. I work on a cardiac step-down floor (our population is most commonly cardiovascular surgical patients) however the other day I had a 30 y/o female patient admitted with chest pain. However, she was 22 wee...
Hello fellow nurses, I'm a cardiac step-down nurse and my floor has all their nurses observe a CAGB due to the large amount of open-heart patients we get. I'm scheduled to go in the morning, and I'm wondering if anyone had any last-minute online res...