Nursemommi

Nursemommi has 6 years experience.

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1. Just want to be a good PICU nurse!

   Nursemommi replied to irishgirl11's topic in PICU

   I agree with Annaiya. I had a hard time with this when I first started! I still - 6 yrs later - am a list maker. I can be flighty at times! I think "forgetting" little things here and there are ok as long as its not an every shift issue. So what if y...

2. PICU medication dosages to memorize

   Nursemommi replied to Annaiya's topic in PICU

   Atropine, bicarb. Our staff is given a trifold orange "code card" its double sided. It has 5 pages for meds (1 for logo of course:)). Pg. 1 Epi anaphylaxis and code - concentrations and weight based chart. Pg. 2 Atropine - weight based chart. Pg 3 - ...

3. What do you guys use for art lines??

   Nursemommi posted a topic in PICU

   Hi there :). We are a 20 bed PICU with many cardiac surgeries. Our current practice for art line blood draws is an open system. These babies that come back from the OR and need hourly labs loose a lot of blood for the 2cc "waste" that per our protoco...

4. Nonresponder to HepB Vaccine

   Nursemommi replied to NewlyGradBSN's topic in General Nursing

   Hey there, just letting you know I went through the same thing. I had a friend that I used to work with that actually looked at the CDC website and said that (i believe) if you have 5 rounds of the vaccine and your titer is low, if your immunity will...

5. Test your PEDS critical care knowledge

   Nursemommi replied to NotReady4PrimeTime's topic in PICU

   Ill be waiting in anticipation. Even though I may not be good to answer, I'll try :)

6. Coping with pediatric death

   Nursemommi replied to perfectbluebuildings's topic in PICU

   I think one of the hardest times I've had thus far as a PICU nurse is when we had a boy about 9 admitted for "the flu" as his parents thought. He was about my sons age and before that perfectly healthy. He was funny, witty, and sarcastic - as was his...

7. Test your PEDS critical care knowledge

   Nursemommi replied to NotReady4PrimeTime's topic in PICU

   New Year's Eve and the thread goes dead :). Lets pick it up again?!

8. Precedex tubing

   Nursemommi replied to CICURN07's topic in PICU

   We use standard tubing - we call it Dex. In our PICU we dont have lipid tubing. We use standard for that too, just change the full setup every 24

9. Dealing with emotion during patient care.

   Nursemommi replied to Mary Hicks's topic in PICU

   What an excellent post and interesting to read all the responses. We have a social worker where I work in the PICU that when asked "How do you know when they (the child) are done?" She simply replies "I think when you ask that question" "It comes whe...