jezlynh

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1. What are the typical duties of RNs in cardiac nursing?

   jezlynh replied to JoshRN81's topic in Cardiac

   Oh and I forgot that in the midst of all this I am doing a lot of documenting in the computer.

2. What are the typical duties of RNs in cardiac nursing?

   jezlynh replied to JoshRN81's topic in Cardiac

   I work on a cardiac critical care unit that admits and recovers pts going for various cardiac/IR procedures. I usually have about 6 pts throughout the day unless i am paired with only 2 because they have a swan. I'm basically running around for the e...

3. Ummm ... is this normal?

   jezlynh replied to OSUgrad2010's topic in Career Support

   I can tell you that I felt the exact same way as you. I did one year in the CVICU and when I realized that I was always going to dread going to work everyday I transferred back to an outpatient cardiac unit. In my opinion if this doesn't get better f...

4. proper orientation for CTICU

   jezlynh replied to rn6889's topic in CCU

   You will never feel ready. It's normal.

5. Milking chest tubes

   jezlynh replied to CleioRN's topic in CCU

   I work at a very large hospital ranked in top #5 in country for CT surgery. We are instructed to strip chest tubes immediately after heart surgery. I agree with previous posts...I have never seen any harm come from stripping CT'S, only from them clot...

6. Funniest real orders you have seen in a chart?

   jezlynh replied to nilepoc's topic in Humor

   Seriously I could not agree more. You are out of touch with reality if you think there's time to be giving back rubs.