Med-Surg Unit needs to spend money

[mstere]

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

[kool-aide, RN]

Does any of that equipment need to be replaced?

[Sun0408, ASN, RN]

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 :)

[AJPV]

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!

[CoffeeRTC, BSN, RN]

Bladder scanners

[RNperdiem, RN]

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

[Boog'sCRRN246, RN]

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

[defyinggravity2009]

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

[BunnySan27]

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

[Flo., BSN, RN]

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

[That Guy, BSN, RN, EMT-B]

RAISES!

[CrimsonAlchemist]

SNACKS!!!