SCNuttyMeg

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1. Is Anyone PCCN Certified?

   SCNuttyMeg replied to GinaCat's topic in Cardiac

   Hey There! I'm PCCN certified and have been for over three years now. When I studied, i actually used the ACCN CCRN Dvd'd (because It was cheaper to borrow than buy PCCN), I went to a two day class PCCN review, and used the PCCN Certification Book by...

2. Insulin drips on the floor!

   SCNuttyMeg replied to jackieRN03's topic in Cardiac

   Hi, A little over a year ago we started doing insulin gtts on our telemetry units for our post open hearts. We were told a 3:1 ratio for those nurses with the gtts but lets just say it was 4:1 days 5:1 nights. Unfortunaly if you were short that night...

3. peritoneal dialysis pts in hospital

   SCNuttyMeg replied to chatty-rn's topic in Urology

   This week I had my first PD patient. I have never had any clincal training on these machines when I was in college or nor in the hosptial setting. This was the first time I had seen the machine etc. This patient had been on our floor since october so...

4. Archived SC Nurses Posts from 2004

   SCNuttyMeg replied to Tomskatt's topic in South Carolina

   After working in three different hospitals, Self Regional, Lexington Medical, and Palmetto Health. I do agree that self is way behind on technology. I never worked there as a liscensed RN but as a student nurse I felt the help from the staff was mini...

5. Archived SC Nurses Posts from 2004

   SCNuttyMeg replied to Tomskatt's topic in South Carolina

   In response to southernlpn: No i do not work for self regional. Im employed with Palmetto Health Richland. There are tons of apartments in greenwood. I went through harrison reality company to get my apt. I had a two bedroom, one bath for 450 a mont...

6. Archived SC Nurses Posts from 2004

   SCNuttyMeg replied to Tomskatt's topic in South Carolina

   Hey There, I'm a Lander Unviersity Nursing Graduated of 2003. Self Regional has a small NICU, but as far as I remember it was nice. I'm not into Peds,NICU etc. But I do know the dean of nursing @ Lander probably could tell you alot about their NICU s...

7. Insulin Gtt

   SCNuttyMeg posted a topic in Cardiac

   Within the last month we began using insulin gtts pre and post op on our surgery patients. When we were inserviced on this gtt we were informed our pt ratio would be 3:1 and the floor would only have one gtt at a time. Well we are only taking one pt ...

8. Reopro on Step-down unit

   SCNuttyMeg replied to Bwick's topic in Cardiac

   We use reopro occasionally for our post intervention cath patients. Most of the time we use integrillin. We have a 5:1 or 6:1 ratio on nights. We do the frequent vitals and observation with pts on reopro as we do with our pts who have not had an inte...

9. Littmann Master Cardiology III or Ultrascope?

   SCNuttyMeg replied to bigislandgyrl's topic in Cardiac

   I have the master cardiology III and I absolutely love mine. I have no problems picking up murmurs,rubs, and lung sounds. I must say I havent even heard of the ultrascope, I might have to check into it. Most of the nurses on the floor have a master c...

10. Blanket Orders

    SCNuttyMeg replied to cathlabrn's topic in Cardiac

    On our standard post op orders it states to continue previous orders. We do not rewrite the previous orders as written before we just continue what was already written. Pharmacy continues all meds ordered before procedure, continuous labs remain ongo...

11. New Grad question

    SCNuttyMeg replied to mrdoc2005's topic in Cardiac

    Hey, I graduated almost 2yrs ago and I started on a cardiology floor. We take post open heart pt's once off the vent, post cath, MI's, Strokes, CHF, plus anything else the cardiac surgerons operate on. I have no regrets at all going straight to a car...

12. Has anyone used Natrecor on their unit?

    SCNuttyMeg replied to maryangel's topic in Cardiac

    I work on a 28 bed telemetry floor and we have a ratio of 1:5 pts. We do natrecor gtts a good bit. Seeing I just got home from work after 15 hours I cant recall us doing any more frequent monitoring than we do with our cardizem etc. I personally wo...

13. troponin question...

    SCNuttyMeg replied to NS_RN's topic in CCU

    This is a stupid question but what is NSTEMI??? I could tell you my guesses but I think Ill pass. Okay I will....Non ST Elevated MI???

14. Archived SC Nurses Posts from 2004

    SCNuttyMeg replied to Tomskatt's topic in South Carolina

    Im a graduate of Lander Universitys Nursing program. They do have three options to choose from. RN-BSN(for those with associate degrees already), Accelerated Prgram(3yrs to complete for a BSN), and of course the 4yr completion program. At the time i ...

15. Vaso Depressive Syncope???

    SCNuttyMeg posted a topic in Cardiac

    I had a pt last night who was +for decreased BP and HR according to the tilt table test. The doctor wrote he had vaso depressive syncope and started him on clonidine. I asked very experienced nurses what was vaso depressive syncope and why would he b...