CCU NRS

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  1. Some Home Remedies in Grandma's Day

    CCU NRS replied to FranEMTnurse's topic in General Nursing

    I got this as an email the other day, it is pretty

  2. Any Good Advise on Time Management for Critical Care Nurse new to unit

    CCU NRS replied to angelique777's topic in Cardiac

    It is really hard to give absolute advce on time managment because things often have a way of turning you to what needs to be taken care of right now. Like Mike said always try to keep with your...

  3. Need help with rapid response team

    CCU NRS posted a topic in CCU, Coronary, Cardiac

    We are trying to devise a plan of action for starting a Rapid response team. If you have one or have worked at a facility that has had one I would love to hear your input. Does it work? How does it...

  4. Need help with rapid response team

    CCU NRS replied to CCU NRS's topic in CCU, Coronary, Cardiac

    http://www.metproject.org.uk/html/the_met_project_book.html check this site they really have all their ducks in a row with their protocols and

  5. Need help with rapid response team

    CCU NRS replied to CCU NRS's topic in CCU, Coronary, Cardiac

    I guess my previous posty mad it sound like just the charge nurse, actually it will be the CCU Charge and the RT Manager. Ok here is the plan as it is now. March 7 for 3 weeks from 7-3 only they will...

  6. Need help with rapid response team

    CCU NRS replied to CCU NRS's topic in CCU, Coronary, Cardiac

    We had another meeting yesterday and for now it seems like they are just going to make it the CCU charge nurse that is the responder, the admin. is strongly stressing that it be a "come-along-side"...

  7. Need help with rapid response team

    CCU NRS replied to CCU NRS's topic in CCU, Coronary, Cardiac

    Thanks for the input. This is really one of my biggest fears that the floor nurses will resent the implication, I mean you know the whole, I can call a doc as well as they can, why should I need...

  8. Need help with rapid response team

    CCU NRS replied to CCU NRS's topic in CCU, Coronary, Cardiac

    Good points. We are just experimenting with this idea. The question of who watches your Pts while you are away is a goods one. Right now we are assmuing that it will be like having someone cover...

  9. Need help with rapid response team

    CCU NRS replied to CCU NRS's topic in CCU, Coronary, Cardiac

    I am bumping this for interest. I really need to know if anyone does this? If your facility doesn't do this let me know

  10. Need help with rapid response team

    CCU NRS replied to CCU NRS's topic in CCU, Coronary, Cardiac

    http://www.ihi.org/IHI/Topics/Improvement/MoveYourDot/ImprovementStories/BuildingRapidResponseTeams.htm It explains the concept quite well. Do any of you have anything like

  11. Need help with rapid response team

    CCU NRS replied to CCU NRS's topic in CCU, Coronary, Cardiac

    Is anybody familiar with this concept? We have an article that states that this started in Austrailia and significantly cut down on fatalitites and the number of crash/code situations in the floor....

  12. help me buck the system, please! super-traditional pinning ceremony that nobody wants

    CCU NRS replied to rach_nc_03's topic in General Nursing

    Ok in this original post it is being held in a Church and the phrase "significant christian religious overtones" is thrown in but no specifics. I asked for specifics. She continues "MY main concern...

  13. help me buck the system, please! super-traditional pinning ceremony that nobody wants

    CCU NRS replied to rach_nc_03's topic in General Nursing

    "We care about our patients, for whom we had sworn to care, protect and heal. It is our duty as professionals....We rejoice with them when a baby is born; we cry with their loved ones when death takes...

  14. help me buck the system, please! super-traditional pinning ceremony that nobody wants

    CCU NRS replied to rach_nc_03's topic in General Nursing

    Your previous comment did clear it up I am not sure what you mean by some of this, I don't get too wrapped up in organized religion I simplify things and break it down to Believers and non-bleievers,...

  15. help me buck the system, please! super-traditional pinning ceremony that nobody wants

    CCU NRS replied to rach_nc_03's topic in General Nursing

    You are absolutely correct I made assumptions with out all the data. Which is what I have been asking for all along. Now you mention prayer and being lead by the minister and several other things. I...

  16. help me buck the system, please! super-traditional pinning ceremony that nobody wants

    CCU NRS replied to rach_nc_03's topic in General Nursing

    Again I am not trying to tell anyone how to feel I am trying to undertsand what is so offensive or

  17. help me buck the system, please! super-traditional pinning ceremony that nobody wants

    CCU NRS replied to rach_nc_03's topic in General Nursing

    Well it should be for all of them. If they are all against it being in a Church they should rally for a change, my poinit was that a church is just a building. Why do people that don't believe in God...

  18. help me buck the system, please! super-traditional pinning ceremony that nobody wants

    CCU NRS replied to rach_nc_03's topic in General Nursing

    This is not really what I was looking for. OK there are religious symbols there. Why should that bother you if you are a non-believer? If you don't believe in them then they should hold no...

  19. help me buck the system, please! super-traditional pinning ceremony that nobody wants

    CCU NRS replied to rach_nc_03's topic in General Nursing

    I don't know about walking by it in MY facility it is right by the main entrance and everyone that enters that way walks past it daily. As for trying to change anyone's belief's I haven't, I simply...

  20. help me buck the system, please! super-traditional pinning ceremony that nobody wants

    CCU NRS replied to rach_nc_03's topic in General Nursing

    And what about the daily prayer almost all Hospitals say a prayer for thanks in the morning and again in the

  21. help me buck the system, please! super-traditional pinning ceremony that nobody wants

    CCU NRS replied to rach_nc_03's topic in General Nursing

    Please enlighten me. How is religion being forced on you just because something is held in a church? If it isn't a religous ceremony it isn't religous. A church is just a building. Many functions can...

  22. help me buck the system, please! super-traditional pinning ceremony that nobody wants

    CCU NRS replied to rach_nc_03's topic in General Nursing

    LOL I got it!!! You said fear of God, about having it in a Church! LOL

  23. help me buck the system, please! super-traditional pinning ceremony that nobody wants

    CCU NRS replied to rach_nc_03's topic in General Nursing

    First Bravo for sticking up for our past counter parts, just because Nuns became nurses doesn't meant they were less professional and most likely more professionall and for that matter holisitic...

  24. help me buck the system, please! super-traditional pinning ceremony that nobody wants

    CCU NRS replied to rach_nc_03's topic in General Nursing

    Consider that possibly there is a lesson to be learned, what about humility, while wearing a cap that announces you are a nurse perhaps you should show pride that you are becoming a professional and...

  25. Psychic Bed Control

    CCU NRS posted a topic in General Nursing

    i have been in charge recently in my ccu. i am very annoyed at the way they play games with bed control. i have come to call it psychic bed control. example: i am in ccu and have 3 transfer orders...