Hello everyone. Current nursing experience includes 14 months on a step down ICU unit. I then transferred to the MICU/SICU and have worked there ever since. My hobbies include snowboarding, bicycling for charity, dogs, friends and family.
The same thing happened to us when jchao came and surveyed our ICU. What we did is build into our titration gtt of Levophed is 8mg/250ml with maximum of 40mcg/min and to initiate at 5mcg/min and increase by 5mcg/min every 5 minutes with goal of MAP &...
Hello, I am right there with you and have been looking to do what you just said above. Like you, I have the slightest of an idea of where to start. I will be interested to see what this thread comes up with!
We have open visitation and one person can stay overnight. It does not hinder my nursing care to my patient. I inform the family members if there are many, that when I enter the room I am see to care for their loved one. This means I need to be able ...
I have seen this as well as previous people pointed out usually related to ARD's. Low Vt, watch the peep, watch their blood pressure, try to minimize barotrauma. I wish our ICU would prone patients, we need new beds to do this properly...
In our 24 bed ICU level 2 trauma center we as ICU nurses do the CRRT. The patient is a 1:1 as long as the CRRT is ordered. The dialysis nurse does all the conventional hemodialysis but we do the CRRT.
Thank you thth21. I am finding a lot of MICU/SICU's practice this where they have an extra RN that does not have an assignment and can then cover staff while they go to lunch or on road trips with their patient. I personally like this idea, but wheth...
ICUPrincessNurse thank you for the input. I like the idea of having resources nurses on the unit that don't have patients and are able to help with watching others patients and assisting with things. Thanks again.
Good thoughts about the vasopressin but in septic patient in the acute phase diuretics are almost always contraindicated because intravascular the patient is very volume depleted already because of the leaky cappillaries and fluid leaking into the ex...
First thing with sepsis is find a cause, give antibiotics, if patient is hypotension needs more than 1 liter of fluid resuscitation. Normally around 3 liters is better depending in patient weight. If the patient continues to be hypotension then you c...
Thank you sapphire18. Out acuity is usually pretty high and most patients do not get OOB. However we are getting more and more telemetry overflow during low census in the ICU and high census on the telemetry floors. I will take your advice and see wh...
This thread is about what do ICU's do for lunch breaks, how do you determine when who goes and who covers your patients. I work in a 24 bed MICU and we have a charge nurse who does not take patients, our staffing is 2:1 for the most part with frequen...