ilovecoffee

ilovecoffee has 1 years experience and specializes in Adult ICU, Pedi CVICU.

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1. Sedation Woes...

   ilovecoffee replied to MegNeoNurse's topic in PICU

   That's not to say that we don't use versed anymore. A few of the intensivists are trying to use precedex when they can, but we have the 24 hour limit too. I have only heard about the apoptosis thing from one of the docs.

2. Sedation Woes...

   ilovecoffee replied to MegNeoNurse's topic in PICU

   Just google midazolam apoptosis or midazolam brain development (or anything along those lines) and a slew of articles comes up. A lot of the studies are on infant mice, but some feel that they are applicable to humans as well. I found this article a...

3. Lost two kids yesterday

   ilovecoffee replied to Double-Helix's topic in PICU

   I'm sorry for your loss. I'm having a rough week over here in peds CVICU myself. Keep up the good work.

4. Sedation Woes...

   ilovecoffee replied to MegNeoNurse's topic in PICU

   We use fentanyl and versed as well (although versed not as much anymore because of effects on brain development per our intensivists). On a lot of kids that have been sedated a long time we give scheduled doses of methadone and ativan. I was surprise...

5. how many shifts in a row?

   ilovecoffee replied to anotherone's topic in General Nursing

   I had a former coworker who was totally insane. He worked 360 days (12 hour noc) one year. Now that he's older, he only works five days a week

6. Note quite a new grad, not quite experienced

   ilovecoffee replied to ilovecoffee's topic in Texas

   Thanks, 0402. The lease we have ends July 1 and there's no opportunity for month-to-month. I've started to apply to a few places (TCH, Ben Taub so far). We will see what they say. Memorial Hermann and Methodist have quite a few jobs posted that I'm t...

7. Note quite a new grad, not quite experienced

   ilovecoffee posted a topic in Texas

   Hi everyone, After graduating nursing school in May 2010, I moved from Texas to Wisconsin and got a job in ICU in August. Wisconsin is not quite working out, so I'm looking at moving back to Houston, my home town. I want to work in the medical center...