cabgrn2

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1. What punishment should this nurse get?

   cabgrn2 replied to Daytonite's topic in General Nursing

   Various forms of discipline can be used without firing this nurse -

2. funniest thing you saw a nurse do.......

   cabgrn2 replied to cre8tivRN's topic in General Nursing

3. New nurse scared to talk to doctors!!

   cabgrn2 replied to cparrish's topic in New Nurse

   There is a well studied "cheat" sheet call the "SBAR" - follows is short version S=situation - your name, pt name & room #, problem calling about B=background - date of adm, adm. dx. pertinent medical hx, brief synopsis of the tx to date A=assess...

4. New nurse scared to talk to doctors!!

   cabgrn2 replied to cparrish's topic in New Nurse

   Afraid - You will not always be afraid unless this has always been your nature. If it hasn't - Time will help Talk to the doctors like they were real people - they are you know - even though some of them don't know it. Ask them how their day is going...

5. funniest thing you saw a nurse do.......

   cabgrn2 replied to cre8tivRN's topic in General Nursing

6. How far up the ladder can you go with an Associate Nursing degree?

   cabgrn2 replied to Student_Nurse_Cossman's topic in Career Support

   If you are taking the courses on line you don't need to have the school based in FLorida. Walden University offers a BSN to Masters and was offering a limited number of 50% off tuition to those starting this summer (over with) and this fall. lk

7. No More Demerol IV Push???

   cabgrn2 replied to VickyRN's topic in Emergency

   Vicky, Demerol will break down the same way whether it is IV or IM. Demerol is not the drug of choice for the reasons you mentioned as well as - why inflict pain (IM injection:madface: ) to relieve pain when there are so many other choices. We stil...

8. Open Heart 1:1

   cabgrn2 replied to zenman's topic in CCU

   We try to "special" (1:1) our open heart patients for 8 hours. They are certainly always 1:1 for at least 4 hours. Unless you have some time with the patient as he is waking up how do you know if the patient will be stable? Our opens come to us st...

9. Blake tube removal post CABG

   cabgrn2 posted a topic in CCU

   After CABG a patient has 2 medialstinal cehst tubes and one blake tube laying along the pleural space. The doctors or their PA's remove the chest tubes the morning after surgery and attach the Blake to a J-P blulb for another 1-2 days. The doctors h...

10. how many times can a human be defibrillated?

    cabgrn2 replied to TinyNurse's topic in CCU

    We had a post open patient with multiple dysrhythmias including numerous runs of VT. I believe he was shoked about 40 times during his stay before they decided he was doing well enough otherwise to warrant an automatic defibrilator. In one 24 hour ...

11. post-op cabg care

    cabgrn2 replied to jetty's topic in CCU

    Our care map has the patient recieve D5W @ 50ml/hr and D5W (250ml) w/40mEq KCL @ 25ml/hr. Some doctors give even less fluid. Patients only recieve between 750ml and 1500ml of fluid before their IV is stopped. It is stopped after they are taking fl...

12. chest tube removal

    cabgrn2 replied to corkyrn's topic in CCU

    :rotfl: All 3 CT's are removed at once by the PA or MD. They are removed at the same time becuase the amount of pain is not associated with the # of tubes removed but the actual removal. So if they were removed separately the patient would have the...

13. chest tube removal

    cabgrn2 replied to corkyrn's topic in CCU

    :rotfl: All 3 CT's are removed at once by the PA or MD. They are removed at the same time becuase the amount of pain is not associated with the # of tubes removed but the actual removal. So if they were removed separately the patient would have the...