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1. nurses undertaking angiograms

   jrmom replied to ann h's topic in Cardiac

   Beyond the scope of Canadian Nurses also.

2. Anyone ever seen a post-cath go AMA right off the table?

   jrmom replied to merellis2009's topic in Cardiac

   nope, never one right off the table, but within 2 hours also. Scares you to death when they leave though, you have visions of the fresh clot blowing and the pt bleeding to death. I still cant picture leaving right off the table though, the sheath is ...

3. Question: what staff are in the Lab for procedures?

   jrmom replied to gscott's topic in Cardiac

   We also have to live 30 mins of the hospital to take call. WE take call every 2 weeks, either the weekend or the mon-thurs run. We have 5 interventionalists/ 1 EP / 12 invasive cardiologists. They all have office. With our recovery area, we have a to...

4. Question: what staff are in the Lab for procedures?

   jrmom replied to gscott's topic in Cardiac

   We have 2 labs: lab A is older equipment(Seimen's) open from 730- 17:30. We do up to 17 cardiac cath cases , either femerol or radial in there. We have 3 RN's and the cardiologist (we are not a teaching hospital) One scrub, one circulator, one hemody...

5. In Bed with Dying Patient

   jrmom replied to interleukin's topic in General Nursing

   Thank you for posting that, it brought me to tears. I have nursed in critical care for yrs and am embarrassed to say I have never thought of that. How beautiful to be able to do that for a grieving family member.

6. Cath Lab nurses!! Intro plz!

   jrmom replied to Marchantia's topic in Cardiac

   Hi there nursing 20 yrs CCU/ICU background, now work cath lab for 5 yrs. I love it, great job, BUT highly stressful and competitive with high turnover rate, always vacancies. we have 2 labs 17-20 angiograms a day 4-6 angioplasties a day do cardiove...

7. Any Cath Lab Nurses???

   jrmom replied to ERRNTraveler's topic in Cardiac

   Hi There, I work in a cath lab with 2 labs, do about 17 -20 caths a day and 4-6 angioplasties between the 2 labs. I love my job and have been there about 5 yrs.. It is intriguing, intense, fun, rewarding, stressful and exhausting all in one. You are ...

8. Who watches over nurses?

   jrmom replied to Dr.Nurse2b's topic in Stress 101

   Oh, you brought tears to my eyes. Thankfully you have been able to come back and I truly believe you are in the field you were meant to be in ( medical). I hope we can all learn from your post. I myself will be more aware of my peers and their well...

9. Heart Cath in your own lab ???

   jrmom posted a topic in CCU

   I work in the cath lab\l love my job. I have a conundrum. It has been suggested by one of our Docs that I have a right heart cath to r/o pulmonary hypertension ( rvsp 47) some TR no RVH. He says he knows it will bug me to no end if I dont find out ( ...