YoungRN93

Okay so I am a "newer" nurse. I worked in a rehab to home for a few years and became an RN and went to an observation floor. On this floor, we get chest pain patients, post cath lab patients, and some med surg over flow. But we do have parameters. I was handed off a patient this morning and was told they were put on a cardizem drip because they had converted to Afib. she was also on a heparin drip due to the chest pain. So this patient was scheduled to go to the cath lab at 11:30. Which she did. They were not able to obtain access! The cardiologist said we would just treat it medically. Well when she got back, she had a written order to d/c the heparin, but nothing about the cardizem. I noticed she was in normal sinus. At shift change, the oncoming nurse treated me like I was completely ignorant because I didn't call and get the cardizem discontinued. I'm not very familiar with IV conversion drugs because we don't deal with them very often. She made me feel horrible.