thatoneguyRN

thatoneguyRN

CTICU, CT-Stepdown

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About thatoneguyRN

thatoneguyRN has 2 years experience and specializes in CTICU, CT-Stepdown.


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  1. Thank you for the info, I really appreciate it.
  2. Cardiac Critical Care Interview Questions to Ask

    1. Nurse to patient ratios 2. aides do they have them what can they do 3. opportunities for advancement 4. type of work culture 5. what is thier turn over rate, more is typically an indicator that the unit has some issues and nurses are jumping ship ...
  3. Hello nurse peoples, I work in critical care now, in a big busy cardiac surgical ICU. I have about 2 years of critical care experience. We have lots of devices and really sick people. I love it, and learn a lot but don't see myself here in ten years...
  4. I am scared to do CPR

    I agree about teaching during teaching moments; however, when someone is coding if you're not keeping their maps up, get out of the way and let someone else do it and a word of advice to anyone...don't take anything personal that is said in a code. T...
  5. Staffing of ECMO patients

    1:1 RN with a perfusionist, though the perfusionist may watch multiple ecmo patients.
  6. The benefits of therapeutic hypothermia in a comatose pt after arrest?

    I think I got my witnessed and unwitnessed wires crossed. The article I looked at was for witnessed arrests as you guys pointed out. It makes sense.
  7. The benefits of therapeutic hypothermia in a comatose pt after arrest?

    Interesting, and thanks. It does make sense that it would be for witnessed arrests and the piece about preventing reperfusion injury is fascinating. I will have to look into that. Also part of why we didn't cool may have been that my patient along w...
  8. Hello all you critical care nursing peoples, I had a patient try to go meet Jesus on me the other night. Witnessed cardiac arrest, we got him back within a few minutes, and they were following commands before I put them back under with some propofol...
  9. Not learning IV starts

    My BSN program in Portland, OR did not, and the reason cited was litigation concerns...which seems silly to me but there it is. It is an issue, as it can be seen as one of the big tasks and cause for some stress if you have not had the time to get s...
  10. Negotiating Salaries/wages in Nursing

    Yeah it does, thank you for the input. I am originally from california and eventually want to go back but am trying to figure out if its worth it to do so with the high cost of living assuming I could find a job eventually. But its good to have a bet...
  11. How long should you stay in a bad unit?

    Thank you for that input, I have some decisions to make and it helps to look at it not as a problem but as an opportunity. Its hard as the moral on my unit right now is pretty dismal and its easy to become negative and get tunnel vision. Thanks for a...
  12. I want to clarify what bad means, I work with some very dedicated RNs who bust their butts and we give excellent care. It is not my co-workers or the pt population, both of which I love, but the overall work culture which is made not-so-much fun by a...
  13. when to start compressions?

    If the patient is conscious and has a pulse then they are tolerating this rhythm, it would be considered a stable tachycardia but for how long is another story, but you would want to quickly manage that condition and try to get them back in a more st...
  14. Crazy days when I take a CABG

    I dunno but its the go to phrase for our really sick pts! Thats pretty cool you could pull tubes, to be honest I have watched the mid-levels do it and it doesn't look too complicated, but then again its one less thing I have to do so I am not compla...
  15. Crazy days when I take a CABG

    Yeah pretty normal from what I have seen, though not always do you have two patients to transfer only sometimes. Its usually one to hurry up and get to step-down then a fresh admit... This is day shift to a "t". Having to d/c two and then get one bac...