TemperStripe

TemperStripe has 5 years experience and specializes in ICU.

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1. Regional Float Pool at Centura?

   TemperStripe replied to IVNinja300's topic in Colorado Nursing

   Yes, I am. Feel free to PM

2. New hospital with agency...no orientation?

   TemperStripe replied to TemperStripe's topic in Agency Nurses

   Great, I feel totally vindicated. :) I've set up some additional orientations at these places and feel totally solid that it's the right thing, not just for me but for my patients. Thank you

3. Regional Float Pool at Centura?

   TemperStripe replied to IVNinja300's topic in Colorado Nursing

   I'm with the RFP and I love it. Can't say enough good things about the managers, educator, and schedulers. It's a great fit for me because I hate unit politics and am very protective of my schedule. I...

4. New hospital with agency...no orientation?

   TemperStripe posted a topic in Agency Nurses

   I have been agency/float full time for almost a year now and have floated to probably 30 different units, but wanted to bounce something off everyone. I just finished paperwork for a large...

5. Light therapy for night shifters?

   TemperStripe replied to TemperStripe's topic in General Nursing

   I started taking mine to work to use it during breaks and charting and 5 or 6 other nurses ended up buying their own lights. :) I use it mostly during the winter and also take a massive dose of...

6. When to call in sick to the SICU

   TemperStripe replied to DuluthMike's topic in MICU, SICU

   I have twice made the mistake of NOT calling in sick...thinking I'd be fine and it would pass. I was having sore throat/cold-like symptoms. MISTAKE. Both of those days ended up being some of the...

7. Future of wireless monitoring?

   TemperStripe replied to General E. Speaking, RN's topic in MICU, SICU

   I have heard it can already be done but who can afford it? Not sure. As economics allow, I definitely think it's the future of the

8. Is turning to supine considered a turn?

   TemperStripe replied to sockov's topic in MICU, SICU

   Side-Back-Side I posted a few weeks ago about a patient I couldn't turn at all so I just moved his arms and legs whenever possible. Miraculously he didn't have any skin breakdown when I checked him...

9. Light therapy for night shifters?

   TemperStripe replied to TemperStripe's topic in General Nursing

   I had used melatonin and also found it to be useless. However, I was taking 3-9mg at a time before going to bed. I've been reading that this is way more than the pineal gland ever secretes, and...

10. Light therapy for night shifters?

    TemperStripe posted a topic in General Nursing

    Any night shifters use light therapy and/or sustained release melatonin? Just curious about your experiences with it, especially if you switch back and forth or live in a darkened

11. Patients who are too unstable to turn

    TemperStripe replied to TemperStripe's topic in MICU, SICU

    This particular case was an incredibly unstable pelvic fracture so the wedge wouldn't have worked because the patient needed to be 100% flat, but I will definitely keep that in mind for the future. I...

12. Patients who are too unstable to turn

    TemperStripe posted a topic in MICU, SICU

    Does anyone have any suggestions for preventing skin breakdown on a patient that is too unstable to turn? I was moving his arms and legs and tilting the bed hourly at least. And of course, he pooped...

13. OSA in the ICU

    TemperStripe replied to TemperStripe's topic in MICU, SICU

    It's because the OSA makes them "high risk." However, many of them don't even have their own CPAPs. They're on room air all night

14. OSA in the ICU

    TemperStripe replied to TemperStripe's topic in MICU, SICU

    Obstructive sleep

15. OSA in the ICU

    TemperStripe posted a topic in MICU, SICU

    We've had a rash of elective surgeries that have had to stay overnight in the ICU because the patients have OSA. The policy states they have to be in ICU even though they have q shift vitals! I'm...