jackieRN03

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1. Insulin drips on the floor!

   jackieRN03 replied to jackieRN03's topic in Cardiac

   Hi Allele Thanks for the info. You ratios are better than ours. If we had a 3:1 ratio an insulin gtt would be a piece of cake. What part of the country are you in? My biggest problem with this whole situation is that the people who decide what the b...

2. Insulin drips on the floor!

   jackieRN03 replied to jackieRN03's topic in Cardiac

   Turquoise, your situation sounds very bad. Check with your state board of nursing. Basically you have 2 RN's taking care of WAAAY too many dangerously sick people. Your nurse manager, DON and administration should be ashamed of themselves for putting...

3. Insulin drips on the floor!

   jackieRN03 replied to jackieRN03's topic in Cardiac

   We will have to take 2 pts with insulin drips and 2 more. The attitude of management is terrible. They are going into this with a "no stopping it" attitude...I think they realize its too much already. I especially hate the comments like "well you'll ...

4. Insulin drips on the floor!

   jackieRN03 replied to jackieRN03's topic in Cardiac

   We are constantly running on our floor. Its hard to find time to tinkle sometimes. Suzanne, the source of the article says it all...Critical Care medicine. Surgical telemetry gets all sorts of patients, from the knee replacement getting brady to the ...

5. Insulin drips on the floor!

   jackieRN03 posted a topic in Cardiac

   Our post cardiac surgery floor is soon to get patients still on insulin drips from CVICU. We usually have a 5 or 6:1 ratio with 2 or 3 techs for 30 patients. Although we do titrate some drips, the idea of having a patient on hourly fingersticks with ...

6. Evil OB

   jackieRN03 replied to Dayray's topic in Ob/Gyn

   I'm glad to see you have gone to your manager about this. I'm a little concerned about your posting of such an account on a public web site like this. I have not been participating in allnurses for long but I would be concerned about making this as p...