Ancillary staff in PICU..do you use them?

[WineCountryRN]

I was just wondering if many PICUs use ancillary staff like a tech or nursing assistant. We use techs to assist in burn care and I have not seen anything in the literature that supports the use of tech in the PICU. I may be using the wrong search engine words so I figures I would throw it out there to see what other hospitals are doing. By the way, I love our techs..they are very experienced at what they do and help tremendously with wound care.

Stacie:monkeydance:

[PIVputterinner]

HazelLPN, where do you work. LPNs in the State of OHIO can rehang a running fluid, but only RNs can give Push drugs and titrate drips or take verbal/phone orders. The PICU where I work has no LPNs, If fact before I got my RN I was an LPN and the last one to work in the PICU.