LoraLou

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1. Help.. I want to advance my career while still being a bedside nurse..

   LoraLou replied to I_See_You_RN's topic in MICU, SICU

   depending on the area of the country you are in there is the option of a cinical nurse specialist. The education for that is more towards the education, resource nurse type focus. I know they are...

2. how do you do it?

   LoraLou posted a topic in Pediatric

   How do you guys deal with the death and the dying of the young? I am an adult open heart recovery/icu nursing and my patient die and while its difficult to deal with I can cope by knowing usually the...

3. Whats the lowest cardiac index you have seen?

   LoraLou replied to Trauma1RN's topic in General Nursing

   I've had a 0.9, quite a while ago ended up putting an IABP in. Sounds like yours needed a dilator with svri that high, thats pretty tight for the heart to be pumping against. Once that's lowered the...

4. Prefering RNs to LPNs

   LoraLou replied to SunnyandIrish's topic in General Nursing

   Around the area that I live LPNs are not being hired into hospital work. If there is an lpn that has worked in the hospital they are not being fired or anything like that, but cannot even transfer to...

5. Concentrated Care Nightmare

   LoraLou replied to nay537's topic in MICU, SICU

   I have not personally worked in a unit like that but a few local hospitals have started units similar to that, however it is a bit different. What they do is once a patient enters a room they don't...

6. Gloves, feedings

   LoraLou replied to misslo's topic in General Nursing

   Maybe she's thinking latex allergy if you're wearing latex gloves? Only thought that I could think of, regardless if a patient is an isolation patient gloves should be

7. Mandatory CNA!!!!

   LoraLou replied to henryswife's topic in General Nursing

   You don't have to work as a CNA, just take the CNA

8. What do you think about cell phone use?

   LoraLou replied to RNontheroad's topic in General Nursing

   I have actually seen it mess up the monitors, only once and that was a while ago. I worked with someone who said the really old cell phones would mess up the iv pumps at the facility that she worked...

9. Is it weird not to wear a scrub top?

   LoraLou replied to Sassybottom's topic in General Nursing

   I personally wear a scrub top cuz I want the pockets to keep my pens, hemostats, and other various supplies in them, but I don't think it looks bad to not wear

10. BIS Monitoring

    LoraLou replied to OkieICU_RN's topic in MICU, SICU

    on my unit we would use BIS only if the patient was paralyzed and sedated. We had a scale if they were on sedation only as far as awake and calm, awake and agitated, easily arousable, etc. but if...

11. TPN thru a peripheral line?

    LoraLou replied to ripcurl1's topic in General Nursing

    our policy is TPN through a central line only, the only thing we are able to run with TPN is insulin, and there PPN (peripheral parenterl nutrition) that is prepared to run through a peripheral

12. levophed calculations

    LoraLou replied to dittydo's topic in General Nursing

    We have different docs that like it different ways here also. Probably just where they did their

13. eICU - Anyone using this?

    LoraLou replied to IVTeam's topic in CCU, Coronary, Cardiac

    if you were asking about working in the eICU which I believe that you were saying something about hands on care vs monitor watching, as a nurse working in the eICU you would not have any hands on...

14. NaHCO3 for BP?

    LoraLou replied to hellonurse36's topic in CCU, Coronary, Cardiac

    I've done it and it works, not on a long term basis but I had a young patient who we were waiting for father to get in to say goodbye before letting her go and we were maxed on pressors with a...

15. What is the difference: MICU vs. CTICU?

    LoraLou replied to ReeseW's topic in CCU, Coronary, Cardiac

    stressors would pretty much be equal, a Medical ICU is medical type patients, you'll be getting pnemonia's, people on gtts, anything requiring ICU care except for surgeries, it will be a catch all...