prayedone

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1. What do you all LOVE about night shift?

   prayedone replied to indeed's topic in General Nursing

   I love night shift because of the special team and friendships that develop. Also the best nurses, the hard working ones, generally work nights. It gives me time to be with my family if I need to do something special with them. Before having a child,...

2. hematoma

   prayedone replied to kbucka's topic in Cardiac

   Our policy is to hold pressure(10-20 minutes)and express manually. We also notify our physicians if it very large. If it rebleeds or continues to form a hematoma, our physician will order a doppler study to ensure there is not a pseudo-anyersm presen...

3. I need info on post angio bed rest

   prayedone replied to Morph's topic in Cardiac

   As already stated, manual removal of sheaths, in our cath lab, requires 6 hours of bedrest. We also use Angioseal, a collagen plug, that requires 1-3 hours of bedrest. Also available to our doctors to use is Perclose which is a suture device that req...

4. cardiac cath lab RN

   prayedone replied to ml2nm's topic in Cardiac

   I've worked in three different labs. Each was unique in meds given routinely. One lab did conscious sedation on everyone using Fentanyl and Versed. We had atropine and lidocaine on top of our med/code cart for each case so it was in reach and not in ...