LindaMarie76

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  1. How many nurses take antidepressants or antianxiety medication?

    LindaMarie76 replied to Attheana's topic in Health, Stress Management

    Talk to your doc. I highly doubt the Effexor is causing test taking difficulties. Rather, I believe your anxiety level may skyrocket during tests causing you to forget information that you already...

  2. How many nurses take antidepressants or antianxiety medication?

    LindaMarie76 replied to Attheana's topic in Health, Stress Management

    When I was on Zoloft about 3 years I had a large amount of weight gain and loss of libido. I am hearing now that Wellbutrin is being used in combination to combat those adverse effects. What are you...

  3. How many nurses take antidepressants or antianxiety medication?

    LindaMarie76 replied to Attheana's topic in Health, Stress Management

    Have you seen a rheumatologist or a pain management specialist? Fibromyalgia is not very well understood but I know what there are pharmaceuticals out there to help, especially with stressful...

  4. How many nurses take antidepressants or antianxiety medication?

    LindaMarie76 replied to Attheana's topic in Health, Stress Management

    So here I am a couple of days later from my last post. This anxiety attack lasted approximately 48 hours and took me to new lows that I never knew existed. I was crying not because I was depressed,...

  5. How many nurses take antidepressants or antianxiety medication?

    LindaMarie76 replied to Attheana's topic in Health, Stress Management

    I wonder if anyone else is reading these posts anymore but I thought I was try and see. I flipped theough the posts and found my mine from January 2002. Back then I raved about Zoloft and I suppose...

  6. comas?

    LindaMarie76 replied to ShawnetteRN05's topic in MICU, SICU

    Roxan, With respect to his lack of eating, what do you think about getting a psych consult ASAP for him rather than waiting until

  7. Dopplers on your crash cart?

    LindaMarie76 replied to Mary MSN RN's topic in MICU, SICU

    About half and half Proficiency is using a doppler? How so? I am honestly curious. I just ran this by nursing colleague of mine and she agrees with you that med-surg nurses may not know how to use a...

  8. Lowest H/H I ever saw...

    LindaMarie76 replied to my2sons's topic in CCU, Coronary, Cardiac

    We have protocol that states if a H/H is below a certain value, the patient must be admitted to ICU (or ER holding). Same goes for K and Na values

  9. Electronic Stethoscopes

    LindaMarie76 posted a topic in CCU, Coronary, Cardiac

    Hey fellow CCRNs: After three years in the ICU, My Littman Cardio III developed legs and ran away from home . When I started nursing school I had a Littman Master Cardiology stethoscope, but never...

  10. Electronic Stethoscopes

    LindaMarie76 replied to LindaMarie76's topic in CCU, Coronary, Cardiac

    Bought a 22 inch Master Cardiology, had it engraved. Love it. Thanks for all of your

  11. what stethescope do you recommend

    LindaMarie76 replied to lifeLONGstudent's topic in Scrubs, Uniforms, Gear

    I posted a relatively similiar question the other month after my stethoscope developed legs and ran away. I tried other peoples' stethoscopes for a month and finally decided on the 22 inch Master...

  12. Precedex...

    LindaMarie76 replied to mjl2525's topic in CCU, Coronary, Cardiac

    I am an ICU nurse but I floated to CVICU last month and witnessed the trial use of Precedex on CABG patients. The patient did not fare well on Precedex, became highly agitated and fighting to the...

  13. comas?

    LindaMarie76 replied to ShawnetteRN05's topic in MICU, SICU

    It could very well be a control issue. My best advice is to push for a psychiatric consult and a speech therapy evaluation. Always remember one thing....this is your husband. You are not out to make...

  14. Dopplers on your crash cart?

    LindaMarie76 replied to Mary MSN RN's topic in MICU, SICU

    IMHO.... I believe that dopplers should have a permanent place on the crash cart. We frequently use them during our codes because there has been more than one time where we thought a pulse could not...

  15. comas?

    LindaMarie76 replied to ShawnetteRN05's topic in MICU, SICU

    Does anyone else think that the GCS is a bunch of crap? It truly does not provide a true reflection of the patient. As Laura Gasparis says, if nursing administration was rated with the GCS, most of...

  16. What does CZI mean?

    LindaMarie76 replied to Heartman's topic in MICU, SICU

    :balloons: I did some searches on CZI followed by crystalline zinc insulin and have copied and pasted the most applicable answers - Linda ----------------- According to a web-site on the Mass General...

  17. mouth care/intubated patient

    LindaMarie76 replied to classicaldreams's topic in MICU, SICU

    In the past months our hospital has become very aggressive in the fight against VAP (ventilator acquired pneumonia). We have recently acquired a new pre-packaged suction set that is more involved than...

  18. Swan questions

    LindaMarie76 replied to kesmith2314's topic in MICU, SICU

    We wedge only with physician order. Depending, sometimes that will be q shift or twice a shift, perhaps q 4 or q 8 hours. All depends on physician preference. Saline for the pressure line.

  19. Cooling Blankets

    LindaMarie76 replied to kesmith2314's topic in MICU, SICU

    No set protocol at my hospital. Doctor's order not needed either. Nursing judgment. We have found that placing the blanket UNDER the patient is more effective, but if unable to turn patient at that...

  20. GN Having Doubts About Going Right into CC

    LindaMarie76 replied to CarVsTree's topic in MICU, SICU

    I don't regret starting my nursing career on the surgical/telemetry floor. I very quickly learned to triage and get my priorities straight. I was sick of it within the first 3 months and transferred...

  21. New Grad Decisions MICU vs NICU?

    LindaMarie76 replied to KatrinaPM's topic in MICU, SICU

    HAHAHAHAHA I have cleaned "rivers of poop" falling like a waterfall off of a bed due to a necrotic bowel or obstruction. It's that much worse (oh so much worse) when the patient is 300+ pounds. Rectal...

  22. Family visitation in ICU

    LindaMarie76 replied to bfjworr's topic in MICU, SICU

    I'm still learning that

  23. Family visitation in ICU

    LindaMarie76 replied to bfjworr's topic in General Nursing

    I'm still learning that

  24. Do all of your vented pt's get restrained?

    LindaMarie76 replied to JHUBRAIN's topic in MICU, SICU

    At my institution we definitely use restraints. These include: soft wrists, posey vests, and mittens. No - we don't use all three of them at the same time ? We are a 550 bed community hospital and at...

  25. Floating Issues

    LindaMarie76 replied to PCloudy's topic in MICU, SICU

    At my hospital we have divisions. Let me elaborate: Critical Care is comprised of CCU, ICU, and CVICU (1:2 ratio) Step-Down is comrprised of IMC and CVIMC (1:4) ratio --- no PCTs ---- Telemetry is...