Super RT

Super RT specializes in PICU, NICU, Adult care as RT.

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1. Traumatic injury of a child

   Super RT replied to Super RT's topic in PICU

   I worked for about 8 years in a PICU and finally left about 2 years ago. I have been working in a small community hospital since. The reason I left was due to the large amount of non-accidental head trauma we got. I got so tired of broken children th...

2. Traumatic injury of a child

   Super RT posted a topic in PICU

   Just had a horrible day at work and needed to get something off my chest......... We had a terribly abused little kid that came into out ER today. I wont go into any details, but to say that she will be better off when she passes away. What I really ...

3. Ice for a vented patient???

   Super RT replied to OkieICU_RN's topic in MICU

   If your patient is soon to be extubated, why not wait the 30 min or so until the tube is out? Use your toothettes until they can protect their airway on their own, since they have the same amount of liquid anyway.

4. From the mouths of non-nurses

   Super RT replied to mattcastens's topic in Humor

   I have heard the make water thing, but not the jug. I love it when I hear about water pills, though!

5. From the mouths of non-nurses

   Super RT replied to mattcastens's topic in Humor

   I can't count how many times I have been asked what a patient's "Stats" are. (Imagine a deep southern drawl) I had an elderly COPDer telling me that she needed to call. When I handed her the phone, she looked at me like I had grown a second head. She...

6. Excuses for Missing Work

   Super RT replied to kmchugh's topic in Humor

   I actually had to call in due to a power outage a few weeks ago. I have 2 bathrooms with no windows in them, so eventhough it was sunny and bright outside, I couldn't see 3 inches infront of my face. I have bought a flashlight since then.

7. Ice for a vented patient???

   Super RT replied to OkieICU_RN's topic in MICU

   As an RT, allow me to comment on this topic. I am reading a lot of different arguments from various posters about this, so let me clear up a few things. 1. VAP happens to patients ON the vent (hence Ventilator Acquired Pneumonia). If the seal was pe...

8. Things Patients Have Taught Me NOT To Do

   Super RT replied to Trixxy's topic in Humor

   Don't smoke 4 packs of cigs a day for 35 years and then get mad at us when the doc suggests that lump on you chest xray is probably cancer. Do not then threaten to sue us because we can't fix it. Don't then have your wife yell at us that you just nee...

9. Coping c child abuse

   Super RT replied to Elvish's topic in PICU

   Working in 2 major Trauma centers, I have seen way too many beaten up kids! It seems to be worse at the first of the year and half way through summer break. I just think there are some parents who don't have good coping skills. When my son was little...

10. How to deal with death of toddler death on picu..

    Super RT replied to nd deb's topic in PICU

    I'm so very sorry to hear about your loss. I think the way I get through it is that while at work, I try not to linger in the room after the crisis and let the parents mourn. I go for a walk or try to busy myself with something else, even if it is pu...

11. Arterial sticks protocols

    Super RT replied to cajrio's topic in PICU

    At our hospital, only RT's are allowed to perform art sticks. Even if there is just an order for art sticks for labs or blood cultures.

12. Knocking on isolette

    Super RT replied to Super RT's topic in NICU

    That was my thought! They always tell you not to tap on the glass of a fish tank bacause it stresses the fish. I would imagine that the baby was even more stressed than the fish would be! The problem with telling the nurse manager is that this nurse...

13. Knocking on isolette

    Super RT posted a topic in NICU

    I recently witnessed a nurse knocking on the outside of an isolette when a baby was having an apnea/brady spell. She did this multiple times durring the shift. This was a very small preemie. Wouldn't this maybe increase the baby's stress level, possi...

14. Do you get sick more often in peds?

    Super RT replied to ER1010's topic in Pediatric

    I work exclusively in Peds and spend the winter every year coughing and sneezing. I get sick every year! If being a pediatric nurse is what you want to do, the colds are just a small downside. In adults, you have to deal with huge diapers and lots mo...

15. older children in picu

    Super RT replied to luckybear104's topic in PICU

    I think it depends on the nature of the patient and their problem. We had a 27 year old once, but he was severely delayed and still saw a pediatrician. I think that the patients that have been in and out of the unit their whole lives are happy to see...