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Amniodarone is my pet peeve. It's AMIodarone people.

We're using standard wall suction... How do these shortages keep coming up?

For airway I would probably do impaired gas exchange r/t COPD. Also, why were they intubated? Mental status change, blood loss? Good things to know to ensure you're finding the right care plan. Risk...

I'm taking this class at the end of October. Any tips?

I don't know how much is delivered but I think adult ambus are 2000ml in the whole bag. Clearly we don't deliver that much volume - but a place to start...

Also protects your eyes from splash back of blood when some is Hep C or HIV pos.

That's my unit!

To assess corneal reflexes I start non-invasive and become more invasive if I cannot elicit a response. I start by touching their eyelashes - if they try to blink they have an intact corneal reflex....

I line up and connect as many 3-way stopcocks as I need for all my pressors and connect them all to the port on the CVL with a 10ml/hr carrier behind them. Everything runs into its own stopcock and...

My hospital uses the arctic sun. I love it. You set it and it does everything automatically. Pts on the cooling protocol for cardiac arrest are usually 1:1.

You forgot the briefly asystolic patient when someone flushes the line without withdrawing the drug first...

$5.00 for evenings $7.00 for nights $4.00 for weekends

There were 35 or 36 that started in the ICU program.

I guess I should give a little more backstory to this. It's a brand new 18-bed Med/Surg ICU that opened in a large teaching hospital. We get everything from sepsis to large traumas. More than 1/2 the...

I haven't heard anything about it. Most of the ICUs are fully staffed right now except our MICU but they just hired a bunch of people. I don't see anything about them opening another residency for...

I've been a nurse for just under a year, new graduate in the ICU and was asked by my nurse manager to begin training for the role of resource nurse. Any tips/tricks to dealing with the politics as...

Auscultation when placed, usually hooked to suction to view contents, confirmed by CXR/KUB. After confirmed by KUB, q4h aspirates/residuals and auscultation of air.

I take all the air out of the balloon, lock the hub, empty the syringe of air, reattach the syringe and then open the hub again. This way air can escape if the balloon did not deflate all the way but...

I'm a new grad (less than a year in practice) and I make $30 and change.

ICU: Q1h VS and I&O if stable, if titrating drips VS with every change in drips (I usually write the pressure that made me make the change and then a f/u set to show the effect); Q4 body balance;...

Jan 7 by Alvindudley I saw a picture of all the new folks who participated in this program on facebook. Interestingly they were all young, pretty and white. Interesting, huh? ...

That's a ridiculous statement. We are a diverse group ranging in age from 20s-40s. The fact that most new graduate nurses are young seems to have escaped your attention. And in fact we have several...

I was one of the graduates of the program and can say the experience I gained was invaluable. All people who completed the program are now working in an ICU at MGH, independently and at full RN pay....

And when that happens, document, document, document. CYA as my preceptor always says :)

Also, High Acuity Nursing is a great textbook/reference. It was my Meg/Surg 2 book in nursing school and we used it as a reference in my New Grad ICU program. Easy to read and full of information!