ac3070

ac3070

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About ac3070

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!

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  1. Pedi ED vs. PICU

    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 like to do your thing and send them away?), and your...
  2. Standard concentrations and frequency of infusate changes

    I must've copied the rate wrong off our board-it is 2.3/1000 days.
  3. Standard concentrations and frequency of infusate changes

    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 kids on pressors! Our clabsi rate is 1.3/1000 lin...
  4. Standard concentrations and frequency of infusate changes

    Also--I will check our CLABSI rate when I get to work tonight.
  5. Standard concentrations and frequency of infusate changes

    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 understand that's how it used to be done, many moons ag...
  6. Standard concentrations and frequency of infusate changes

    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 our infusions. 2) If you prepare your own, how ofte...
  7. Piggy Back IV order with no fluid order?

    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 running dry and forcing me to need to waste meds/fluids...
  8. Pedi and NICU the same???

    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 think. Just make sure to protect your license and tak...
  9. Being a NP and Chiropractor

    There are some nursing schools that will grant an associates in nursing and allow you to apply for state licensure with an almost totally distance-learning curriculum (for medically-trained people-Lpn, medic, rrt, maybe dc?) I hold a non-nursing bac...
  10. Sheath Pulls

    Love a radial Cath! My favorite!
  11. Sheath Pulls

    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 when not traveling around to pull.
  12. Securing ET's

    Why aren't tube holders widely used? Is it a cost issue?
  13. Pediatric BMT

    Texas children's?
  14. Can I join you? New PICU hire

    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! LOL
  15. Can I join you? New PICU hire

    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 work in adult tele/intermediate care. I've been on...