SICU Queen

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  1. CQI/PI Plan for Heart Tx

    SICU Queen posted a topic in Quality Improvement

    Hi, I am in orientation as a Coordinator in a very small heart transplant program. I was just handed a folder with "CQI/PI" on it, and told to create an Excel spreadsheet to track 4 areas for this...

  2. The nurse who wasn't. Thoughts and comments.

    SICU Queen replied to lulu123's topic in General Nursing

    Exactly! Please save the RN title for those of us to whom it means something other than a bump in

  3. Reprimanded for cleaning up after myself!!!

    SICU Queen replied to AngelfireRN's topic in General Nursing

    I say tag the

  4. I graduated from Nursing School today!

    SICU Queen replied to jncRN's topic in General Nursing

    Congrats to

  5. Healthcare Educators--CPR/ACLS etc. with Medical Directors

    SICU Queen replied to bobnurse's topic in Nurse Entrepreneurs, Innovators

    Yep, I meant what sirI said... "back in the day" when I was a baby nurse, a physician ran our megacode and signed the ACLS cards along with the instructor. Nowadays nurses do it all but I wasn't sure...

  6. Healthcare Educators--CPR/ACLS etc. with Medical Directors

    SICU Queen replied to bobnurse's topic in Nurse Entrepreneurs, Innovators

    If I'm not mistaken, physicians need to sign off on the ACLS... so probably for that.

  7. Chest Tubes

    SICU Queen replied to mdedmon85's topic in General Nursing

    Jeeeeeeeeeeezus! Glass bottles? I can honestly say I've never had to use that type of system in the almost 15 years I've been nursing. If it's like what I remember seeing in pictures during nursing...

  8. I just wanna be a DNR

    SICU Queen replied to NurseCherlove's topic in General Nursing

    Okay, THAT WAS AMAZING! Thanks for sharing. I have a new theme song,

  9. Movie: "The Business of Being Born."

    SICU Queen replied to epiphany's topic in Certified Nurse-Midwives, CNM

    I've seen it - rented it on NetFlix and watched it on my computer. My youngest daughter is pregnant and we watched it together. It was certainly eye-opening, and it made me rather angry as well. Women...

  10. Calling Docs by their first name...

    SICU Queen replied to zamboni's topic in General Nursing

    I always use Dr. ________ with the patients/family, and it's situation-dependent otherwise. Usually with the younger ones, i.e. residents, newer attending, it's a first name thing and it's mutually...

  11. When do you NOT want people to know you're a Nurse

    SICU Queen replied to Nurse_Newbie's topic in General Nursing

    I don't want anyone to know I'm a nurse, except when I'm at work or I'm assisting another family member with a medical situation (like a doctor's appointment or being in the hospital). Otherwise, I...

  12. My doubts about a future in nursing

    SICU Queen replied to NewJA's topic in General Nursing

    Do yourself and the world a big favor: don't go to nursing

  13. Fellow RN died this morning.

    SICU Queen replied to Ali_Oop07's topic in General Nursing

    I can definitely identify with this. Many a morning I found myself dozing off and running dangerously close into the back end of a few semi's on the interstate. Very scary indeed. I'm so sorry for...

  14. Former addict a nurse?

    SICU Queen replied to JoeyDog's topic in General Nursing

    Oh. Well now I'm curious what happened...

  15. Former addict a nurse?

    SICU Queen replied to JoeyDog's topic in General Nursing

    Yeah well... maybe I'm being pessimistic this morning but, if the description of this dude is accurate, he and those like him need to stay out of MY unit, and away from the bedside of me or any of my...

  16. Acetabular Labrum Tear: Worried :-(

    SICU Queen posted a topic in General Nursing

    I sustained at injury at work while another nurse and I were cleaning a very heavy patient who did not want to cooperate. I was originally told by the Orthopedic PA that I was sent to see that my...

  17. If you could make everyone a nurse, would you?

    SICU Queen replied to pumpkin1984's topic in General Nursing

    If you're asking this so as to create the scenario that everyone would have an understanding of what it is we do, then yes... for a few hours, I'd like everyone to experience nursing as a busy bedside...

  18. can you add KCL to IVF?

    SICU Queen replied to Ms.RN's topic in General Nursing

    Years ago it was very common for nurses to add it themselves... but nowadays it usually comes from pharmacy due to the fatal end result if it's administered incorrectly. (Basically, what everyone else...

  19. Acetabular Labrum Tear: Worried :-(

    SICU Queen replied to SICU Queen's topic in General Nursing

    I just feel so disheartened. Prayers are always welcomed. Thanks for replying,

  20. Acetabular Labrum Tear: Worried :-(

    SICU Queen replied to SICU Queen's topic in General Nursing

    No

  21. Moral Distress

    SICU Queen replied to LadyJRN1's topic in General Nursing

    OMG that is just awful. I don't know what I'd have done in that scenario, but I can guarantee you it would've haunted me too. BIG ((((hugs)))) to you...

  22. I don't want to be a CNA anymore.

    SICU Queen replied to Ms. Nurse Assistant's topic in General Nursing

    I guess it has to be done... but I can't fathom waking people up at 3:30 am to get them dressed!! WOW! I'm sorry about your problems. Caring for patients is difficult at times, and it sounds like you...

  23. Acetabular Labrum Tear: Worried :-(

    SICU Queen posted a topic in General Nursing

    I sustained at injury at work while another nurse and I were cleaning a very heavy patient who did not want to cooperate. I was originally told by the Orthopedic PA that I was sent to see that my...

  24. This Was Truely Unexpected Event

    SICU Queen replied to angelique777's topic in General Nursing

    I'm not making light of your situation, but the way you worded that just tickled the heck out of me...

  25. Being a Big Guy

    SICU Queen replied to MurseHopeful's topic in General Nursing

    Absolutely NOT an issue. I've worked with a lot of "big" guys (and I'm married to one too - but he's 6'6!) and not only have they usually been excellent nurses, but they're also big-hearted, big...