anne07

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1. Hourly doses of vent sedation, is this common?

   anne07 replied to jkej's topic in MICU

   We have both continuous and intermittent sedation protocols. The intermittent protocol calls for morphine and Ativan IVP, dosed according to MAAS scoring. The continuous protocol is either fentanyl/versed or morphine/Ativan. Some patients do just fin...

2. Are swans going "out of style?"

   anne07 replied to TemperStripe's topic in MICU

   I think it depends on the institution and the unit... I worked in an SICU where we got CV surg, trauma, general surg, etc. All of our hearts came back with swans and we occasionally had a bad trauma or an ARDS or sepsis get swanned. We were pretty...

3. StatViews- ekg pagers

   anne07 replied to TLC_RN_BSN's topic in Cardiac

   I've used the pagers when I worked at another hospital, and (big suprise) we hated them too. The pagers went off for just about everything, and rarely was there a real problem with the patient. Unfortunately, most people just started ignorning the ...

4. How to help pt's and family members cope

   anne07 posted a topic in Oncology

   Hi all, I'm a cardiac nurse, so I have a decent background on what to say and what not to say to patients and their families as they are dealing with difficult diagnoses. However, I am now in somewhat of a different situation. I am dating a man ...