BrandonB779

BrandonB779

TNCC, PALS, NRP, ACLS, BLS-Instructor

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About BrandonB779

BrandonB779 has 4 years experience and specializes in TNCC, PALS, NRP, ACLS, BLS-Instructor.


Been working in EMS since 2004 as an EMT. Serve on a local police department Tactical Team as a Tactical Medic. Been in ICU Nursing since 2011, also have worked as a 911 Dispatcher. In addition to all my public service fields and experience, I helped plan a town-wide disaster drill. In addition I love to travel, specifically on cruises.

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  1. Hello All! Reaching out to my AllNurses audience for some help. I am researching whether or not formal Crisis Intervention Training (CPI as it's called here) for our ICU nurses should be offered. Now there is a cost associated with this be...
  2. Hey Murses.....Murse?

    To add some humor, I took a tactical-medic class (TCCC protocols) and one of the instructors instantly had a new nickname for me: Focker, I laugh about it, and Murse, only a few medics I work with will throw it out and say "oh he's a murse" but past ...
  3. I want to do well in nursing school...any advice

    I graduated 2 years ago from Nursing School, and much like the first reply you saw, yea its a completely different unfair world lol. The GPA hit, happened, the stress, happened. Best advice I can say, ask questions, get rationals, don't think too muc...
  4. ICU Overflow, What Happens Then?

    I wish we had that luxury, unfortunately we don't always. There is a hospital policy that doesn't really allow for transfers unless push comes to shove (anytime between like 1a-5a) and most of the time they don't transfer people anyways. The ones tha...
  5. Airforce or Navy

    So I figured I should add my 2 cents into this since I've been on/off about joining the military w/ specifics to the AF since I was a young kid. Now I've graduated a Diploma RN program and currently finishing up gathering my BSN. I have as of this mo...
  6. ICU Overflow, What Happens Then?

    So here's a question I've been wanting to pose for some time and get some feedback from some fellow RNs. I work in a 16 bed Medical/Cardiac Critical Care Unit. What happens when the ICU is at capacity between staff and patients waiting to be admitted...
  7. Shift change and visitation in ICU/stepdown

    We have started doing bedside shift change report in a 16 bed MICU. People have done it for a while prior to it getting implemented and required, others have the "old habits die hard" feeling, etc. MedScape just put out an article from research sayin...
  8. New Grad - ICU

    Couldn't have said it better. New grad into MICU myself now 1 1/2 years in, definitely keep parameters tight, dont drone out the "alarms" or "noises" pay attention, ask questions, and clarify what you dont know, and not implying that anyone will but ...
  9. New grad starting in MICU/SICU soon

    Well I'd say first day on the floor, take the time to let your preceptor explain everything to you....they're going to have a wealth of knowledge and you should be familiar with your settings. The basics of each system dont change with ICU care, some...
  10. New grad starting in MICU/SICU soon

    In all honesty I will say it may be difficult for me to give you advice on how to do a thorough and more full approach to a patient assessment; but here's best I will try to offer: First, make sure to obviously focus on the big picture of why they're...
  11. MICU RN for 1 1/2 years now, we generally have 2:1 ration, with specfiics on 1:1 criteria for care (multiple pressor titration, IABP, Protective Hypothermia, or really really crashing) but we have done 3:1 usually with our step-down patients or those...
  12. Is There Truth To This?

    I will add to this, I dont have a BSN, and work critical care new grad fresh out of school with a Diploma in nursing. All hospitals are definitely proving to want to go towards BSN's, but remember its also what you make yourself in the interview and ...
  13. Need help understanding an insulin drip

    Our hospital puts our insulin drips mixed in pharmacy, but in D5 not D10......and it gets titrated each hour based on hourly glucose checks.....
  14. Saline flush without a physician order?

    At our hospitals policy, anytime an order for fluids or IVs are started there is an automatic policy for flushes Q8 hours in our medication administration record so that we can keep veins patent in comparison to KVO IVs at 5 mL/hour.
  15. Should new grads only apply for new grad jobs?

    I find it quite interesting that alot of hospitals will specify jobs (especially with alot of the applications online now) that like "New Grads Not Accepted, or Will Not Be Considered" but then others that have no indication of it on the application ...