TStewartfan

TStewartfan specializes in ICU, Trauma.

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1. Want to do ICU nursing.....I think

   TStewartfan replied to heaverboo's topic in MICU

   I love ICU. I came straight out of nursing school right into MICU. I wanted an overall part of the ICU and darn if I didn't get it. We get traumas, COPD pts on vents, cancer pts, in the past month we had three quadraplegics two from MV crashes and on...

2. Tncc

   TStewartfan replied to jillba's topic in Emergency

   Finished the class today. Got in late when they were going over possible study questions. I was the first to do my practical and passed that with flying colors and then took the exam and had never cracked the book and got an 86. I confused the types ...

3. Just got hired in ICU....any advice?

   TStewartfan replied to nursekatie22's topic in MICU

   I got hired directly out of nursing school to work in MICU. I am not a young nurse either was 40 when I got my license so I was apprehensive about being older than those who were training me but luckily I was precepted by a nurse who had been a team ...

4. How often do you assess your patients?

   TStewartfan replied to MissAnthrope's topic in MICU

   Our head to toe assessments are done Q4 hours. If a new neuro pt its Q1 and of course we eyeball our patients every hour to record vitals, urine output etc. Sometimes the docs want other certain assesments done on a regular basis such as CVP, GCS et...

5. Tncc

   TStewartfan replied to jillba's topic in Emergency

   I am taking it as we speak. Our test and practicum is tomorrow. It's not as hard as I thought it would be... let me let you know tomorrow.... But its all common sense head to toe assessment and think about everything and anything that you could do f...

6. ICU Nurses with OCD!!!

   TStewartfan replied to nursern20's topic in MICU

   I am an MICU nurse and there are a lot on our unit who are OCD but you just about have to be. The people I work with I absolutely adore and could not imagine going anywhere else. If I have two stable resting patients I go and see if someone else need...

7. Need Help with Blood Administration

   TStewartfan replied to peds4now's topic in General Nursing

   I prime with saline up to the secondary blood tubing and prime the filter with the blood itself then set it on 150 ml/hr and let it infuse. I have had nurses that I was with fill the filter up halfway with saline and then blood but I learning in nurs...

8. Gastric Bypass: trading one set of problems for another?

   TStewartfan replied to FireStarterRN's topic in General Nursing

   I had gastric bypass in 1997 and would do it again in a heart beat. I am no longer on blood pressure medications and my back and legs do not hurt anymore from the excess weight. Yes, I have to take B12 injections, and must take daily vitamins but tha...

9. patient condition phone calls

   TStewartfan replied to marygirl's topic in General Nursing

   Our policy is that we have the family give a password and we appoint one of them family spokesman. If it gets too ridiculous I tell them to call the family spokesman for an update and that the constant calling pulls me away from the bedside care of t...

10. All White Uniform Dress Code?!!

    TStewartfan replied to keludtke's topic in General Nursing

    My hospital has us in either all black or all white or a combination of both. The hospital didn't come up with it so therefore they won't pay for the uniforms or the cleaning of them. The nursing governance organization came up with it citing that pa...

11. Jay Leno slams nurses!

    TStewartfan replied to grace90's topic in General Nursing

    I don't find his humor funny anyways... sorry to have gotten into the tail end of this conversation but the stereotype of nurses goes way back. Some of the first nurses were those who were convicted of crimes to repay their debt to society. Some of t...

12. What's your story? Why did you take up nursing?

    TStewartfan replied to Joe V's topic in General Nursing

    Well, I am still a student but an "older"one at that. I just turned 40 a week ago and I decided that I was sick and tired of being in law enforcement. I worked as a crime scene technician for 10 years and a paralegal for another 7 all at my local She...

13. Last names on ID badges and retaliation by patients

    TStewartfan replied to ICRN2008's topic in Relations

    Our school has a policy of putting first and last names on our badges for everything except our psych rotation and they just blanked out our names and put a sticker over it with our first name and you could see our full name underneath it. One of th...

14. What are the item(s) you need most for nursing school?

    TStewartfan replied to rn2be2006's topic in General Students

    I am in the third term of a five semester nursing program. I have a couple of things that I cannot live without. 1. A GREAT COMFORTABLE PAIR OF SHOES.. I had a pair in the first nursing clinical I had and by the end of the day I couldn't walk, my fee...

15. Top 10 things never to say to clinical instructor

    TStewartfan replied to CharliezAngie's topic in General Students

    We had a girl in our clinical who SPECIFICALLY stated that she hated patient care and that she wanted to push papers. WELLLLL Jodi Levins