JACook1

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1. Floating Policy Help Needed

   JACook1 replied to mattcastens's topic in Neuro

   We have 5 units, MICU/CCU, SICU, NTICU, & Step-Down. When you are oriented to our hospital as a CC nurse, you must be able to float in this cluster if your home unit is overstaffed and other units need help. It works fine, but most other units ha...

2. neuro nursing certification

   JACook1 replied to c fiser's topic in Neuro

   I have been a CNRN for almost a year with 5yrs of nursing experience 4 of those years concentrated in neuro-trauma. For those who have taken the CCRN, imagine the CNRN harder. This test is very tedious. We took an eight month reveiw course that focus...

3. Cerebral edema without increased ICP?

   JACook1 replied to OHmom2boys's topic in Neuro

   If we all followed standards, anyone who made it past the ER and to a unit with a GCS of >8 would have an ICP monitor regardless of cerebral edema. That decision lies on the physician to place one or not. However, I don't care what the doc says ab...

4. Hello All

   JACook1 replied to nursejazzy's topic in Missouri

   My name is Jaime Cook, I am currently working in Springfield, MO at >700 bed hospital. My area of specialty is Neuro-Trauma ICU. I am working on my Master's degree as an FNP and doing my thesis on patients with Traumatic Brain Injuries and the use...

5. CSF collection

   JACook1 replied to CynthiaSICU's topic in Neuro

   Our Class I hospital supports seven neurosurgeons & a neuroradiologist, we often collect CSF on our patients. After working with an infectious disease doc on a case in which we were collecting daily CSF samples, he said that it must be drawn from...

6. Neuro ICU Staff and unit development

   JACook1 replied to ckipp's topic in Neuro

   Moral is a difficult thing to obtain in an ICU, especially a Neuro unit. For the most part, well trained, well developed and experienced nurses come with well developed personalities and sometime difficult attitudes to tame. Many times I've seen the ...