Hazelgirl_06

Hazelgirl_06 has 7 years experience.

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1. Safety with dangerous pts

   Hazelgirl_06 replied to Hazelgirl_06's topic in General Nursing

   If they are combative and dangerous it is impossible to give. We have to wait for police to come which take a while which in that time someone could get hurt

2. Safety with dangerous pts

   Hazelgirl_06 replied to Hazelgirl_06's topic in General Nursing

   They do not have medical issues but straight psych. They are under a hold until they can find a bed in a psych facility. If they can't in six hours, they are admitted under observation in the icu whether they be safe or dangerous. There is a huge pus...

3. Safety with dangerous pts

   Hazelgirl_06 replied to Hazelgirl_06's topic in General Nursing

   I'm referring to when they are admitted as a pt and not in ed. Our ed has more than adequate staffing and resources to handle these pts. Cpi and deescalation only goes so far with these patients. We have to rely on a button and pray they don't hurt s...

4. Safety with dangerous pts

   Hazelgirl_06 replied to Hazelgirl_06's topic in General Nursing

   1. Pts who are medically and are awaiting a psych bed placement 2. They expect us to hit a button and wait until the cops show up which could be a while and in that time we could get injured 3. We have one security guard responsible for the whole hos...

5. Safety with dangerous pts

   Hazelgirl_06 posted a topic in General Nursing

   Hi all! I come from a critical access icu and er. We live in a big college town and get a fair amount of dangerously combative pts and psych pts. Our icu is the only observation unit so all the psych holds are admitted there. We generally only have ...

6. Code cart outdates

   Hazelgirl_06 replied to Hazelgirl_06's topic in General Nursing

   Do they only deal with the drugs? I'm talking the entire code cart

7. Code cart outdates

   Hazelgirl_06 replied to Hazelgirl_06's topic in General Nursing

   So pharm deals with ALLL the outdates like blood tubes, iv sets, sterile gloves, etc as well?

8. Code cart outdates

   Hazelgirl_06 posted a topic in General Nursing

   Hi everyone! im heading the ubc in the icu and looking for what works for other facilities. We have to do the code cart checks on our shift. I was wondering how people at other facilities managed the outdates on the cart. Is it individually changed b...