With five years of experience as a paramedic and two years as a nurse on a cardiac telemetry/intermediate care unit, I'm about to move into the PICU! I'm working on my BSN while raising two daughters...I'm a busy girl!
Hm, I guess the major differences comes in patient population (really sick vs the spectrum of sick and not sick), continuity of care (do you like having the same patient for a whole shift or do you...
ac3070 replied to NotReady4PrimeTime's topic in PICU, Pediatric
It sounds terribly frustrating. I have less than 6 months experience in the picu so this is the only way I know, but I can't imagine mixing drips on top of everything else-especially in the super sick...
ac3070 replied to NotReady4PrimeTime's topic in PICU, Pediatric
Replying from my phone-thanks for clarifying about the bigger solutions being drawn into syringes, that makes more sense. Our pharmacy would still say no way to us doing it ourselves though as I...
ac3070 replied to NotReady4PrimeTime's topic in PICU, Pediatric
1) Do you prepare your drug infusions or does pharmacy prepare them for you? If pharmacy prepares them for you, you may or may not have responses for the remaining questions. Pharmacy prepares all...
Was this med to be given on an Iv pump? If so you aren't really giving fluids...the tubing is there, primed with NS, and I always thought of the NS as a kind of insurance to keep the tubing from...
ac3070 replied to PediatricRNTX's topic in Pediatric
I am still orienting in my picu but will be pulled to float to peds, peds hem onc, nicu, nursery, peds ed. Day shift nurses also go to peds same day surgery/recovery. It's a lot but not unusual, I...
In my hospital (a bigger, 600-bed academic center) nurses from one cardiac floor are certified to pull and handle the pulls on the rest of the floors. That nurse is a resource nurse on her/his floor...
Thankfully I have two young'uns at home (1 year and 4.5 years old) to keep me up to speed...it's the slightly older ones I have to research a bit more for!
Hi everyone, I'm having a good time reading tons of old threads and wanted to introduce myself before I start actively participating! I've been hired into the PICU at the hospital where I currently...
I'm new too, and I definitely look at other nurses' assessments--I think it's helpful to see how the patient has changed in the last twelve hours. Obviously if something is super different than what...