andrea.nz

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1. The Hopsitals that hire new grads in ICU's

   andrea.nz replied to MrRacer98's topic in MICU

   Come to New Zealand, we take new grads in ICU in fact we are so short of nurses we will take them anywhere:chuckle [

2. Tympanic temps in ICU?

   andrea.nz replied to erinnRN's topic in MICU

   We do have tympanic but very few nurses will use them prefering axilla or rectal. Our intensivist prefer we dont use them as there is such a discrepency between readings.

3. Communication for the vented patient

   andrea.nz replied to delta32's topic in MICU

   We use alphabet boards, most of the time this seems to work but when it doesnt find someone who is good at reading lips:chuckle