angle71054

angle71054 has 13 years experience and specializes in CCU, med/surg (cardiac/tel).

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1. ICU nightmares

   angle71054 replied to CardiacDork's topic in Critical

   That is my life every 3 months or so. But then again I'm an Agency nurse.

2. ICU nightmares

   angle71054 replied to CardiacDork's topic in Critical

   So my first crazy nursing dream was also a "co-dream" with my husband. So I started my nursing career and found my husband at the same time. And well sleeping (literally) with some one was new too. In my nightmare I was in my patient's room and heard...

3. Floor to ICU

   angle71054 replied to chacha82's topic in Critical

   So I started off as a Surg/Telmetry RN spent 2.5yrs and then switched to ICU nursing. I loved the switch. I have attempted to go back to med/surg but my heart is in the ICU. I now am a Agency RN and am willing to do what ever where ever. I do not thi...

4. Heat stroke & DIC????

   angle71054 posted a topic in Emergency

   So I am not an ER nurse, I am a ICU nurse. I had a scary experience with a patient the other day and I am a little freaked out. I know Heat stroke is dangerous. That it has the capacity to shut down your kidneys and other damage, but I have never see...

5. The Patient I Failed

   angle71054 replied to nerdtonurse?'s topic in Relations

   Thank you for the post. It was very moving. It is a situation that we hope we never incounter but as a nurse with 7 years of expericence I have delt with it several times. It can be heart breaking. I make it a point that with every pt that I admit th...

6. Cardiac Markers and stress test

   angle71054 replied to dnnc52's topic in CCU

   Speaking from as CCU nurse with 5yrs under my belt here. You can never have "too much over kill". We can do all the tests in the world CK,CPK,CKMB,trop I,EKG, stress tests everything and you still don't know the whole picture. Just because we haven'...

7. Buddhist and there practices

   angle71054 replied to angle71054's topic in General Nursing

   Thank you so much for explaining. No one that I talked knew what was needed and the chaplin that showed up at the code just stated that he didn't think he was wanted and was going to leave. He stated he didn't know what he needed to do to help except...

8. Buddhist and there practices

   angle71054 posted a topic in General Nursing

   I was caring for a pt that was a buddhist and he passed away. I have never experienced nor learned about all of the different rituals and requirements they need to have met. For instance we were kind of in a bed crunch and the pt had passed and 3hrs ...

9. Non Q Wave MI

   angle71054 replied to HeatherISU's topic in CCU

   A Q-wave develops several days after a pt has a severe enough MI that it causes cell death. The Q-wave must be at least 1/3 of the height of a QRS to be clinically significant to say that the pt has had an old MI. It usually does not go way. You must...

10. sup sup

    angle71054 replied to Galaknore's topic in CCU

    Never take bp in same arm as a-line and picc. I have in rare occasions taken bp in same arm as picc if it is lower than the picc line, but only in cases in which you have no other place. Like a pt with a shunt in one arm and can't get a good reading ...

11. Education for NEW CHF

    angle71054 posted a topic in Education

    I work in CCU. My manager wanted me to start thinking about a collection of information that we could had a newly diagosed pt with CHF. Something that is easy to understand. To help the patient understand the new life altering situation but not to ov...

12. The eternal K+ debate

    angle71054 replied to MissAnthrope's topic in CCU

    :no:In our hospital (I work in CCU) we replace K+ both po and iv depending on what the dr orders, but iv K+ is never to be stronger than 10meq over an hour. If the pt has a central line we can give in 50cc of fluid for pt in CHF, but still to be ran ...

13. Hello fellow collegues !

    angle71054 replied to Elicia RN's topic in CCU

    You are correct in thinking that an IABP as it inflates it provides an increase in perfusion, it almost gives it a second stoke of oxygen rich blood so to speak. Also as it inflates it gives just a little more pressure in to the arteries to help push...

14. Open heart ICU

    angle71054 replied to Kiwi's topic in CCU

    Well I have been a nurse for almost 5 yrs now, and like you I wanted to start in and ICU, but did not think that I would be quailfied to start there. I intially started in a med/surg floor that was surgical/telemetry. I was able to see everything fro...

15. Help need info on DCIS

    angle71054 posted a topic in Oncology

    Hey everyone I need some information. I am a cardiac nurse so I don't know that much information related to cancer. My mother just had a needle biopsy and the results stated she has Ductal Carcinoma in Situ. I have done some research on it, but it wo...