PICCO topic

Published Feb 13, 2012

25 Posts

I was just wondering if any of you guys could head me in the right direction with a good cost effective PICCO topic. I am a first year RN student, and the instructors would like to see how far we can take this. I turned in a "rough" draft of an idea, but unfortunetly it wasn't a good idea. I did clinicals this past week in the ED department and realized that they only had one med room per each "huge" section of the ED (there were 4 diffferent sections). I came up with the thought that if they could install at least 1 Pixes station at each nursing station it could save time for the nurses to have to run to this one med room to draw up meds in an emergency situation.....time saved is cost saved....also say a nurse got a stat order for Haldol so he/she runs to the med room pulls up the med comes back out only to realize that the pt. is allergic. Then this medication is wasted. If there could be more Pixes near the charts, near the computers, near the doctors, this could save wasted supplies which in turn saves money. But like I said unless I am totally thinking about this in the wrong way, I don't know what or how to do this. Any ideas would be greatfully appreciated. Maybe I just need this PICCO concept explained in greater detail to me. Thanks so much for any info!!