Med-Surg Unit needs to spend money

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Our unit director has asked to send in ideas of what we can buy on our unit that costs over $3000.00. Its great we have the opportunity to send in ideas. Our unit has all the general med-surg equipment including blood pressure equipment, scales, bariatric lift, wound care supplies. I thought of maybe SP02 monitors.

What does your unit have that you have found to be very useful in your practice?

Thanks.

Mstere, RN

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Specializes in Cardiac.

Does any of that equipment need to be replaced?

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Specializes in Trauma Surgical ICU.

When I was on med/surg we never had enough O2 monitors(only one), or thermometers(only four).. It was a renal floor and most of the pts have very bad veins so we invested in a vein finder.. It was a life saver :)

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Accurate, stand-alone thermometers! Not the ones that are part of the blue VS machine on wheels (you know the ones!) that always read lower than the real temp!

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Bladder scanners

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Are there enough machines for checking blood glucoses on? Many places could use another one of those.

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Specializes in Utilization Management.
Bladder scanners

omg yes! I feel like my floor is the only one in the entire hospital with a bladder scanner! Even the ED borrows it :uhoh3:

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Specializes in Complex care, tele.

SCD machines and temporal thermometers - they're way better than oral or tympanic thermometers when used correctly.

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Specializes in Med/Surg Tele; LTC; Corrections.

I say pulse ox, dopplers for those tricky iv starts, and every group gets their own dynamap hate having to look for one when I need it

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Specializes in Developmental Disabilites,.

We have dynamaps and 02 machines in every room. I can't even imagine not having them.

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Specializes in Emergency/Cath Lab.

RAISES!

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SNACKS!!!

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