LoraLou

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 common in some areas and not in others. I'm kinda in ...

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 person has lived their life and its time for them ...

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 ci should come up.

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 other floors, once leaving the floor where they ar...

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 leave until they are discharged. If they are a tele ...

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 worn.

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

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 at. What I have heard is that they only mess up the...

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 one.

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 somebody is paralyzed that is not going to work, so we...

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 line.

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

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 care, you would be sitting at a monitor screen looking...

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 continuous bicarb gtt running and I'd push an amp of bica...

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 unit. CTICU will be mostly surgical patients, I curre...

in the ICU we make the same amount as all nurses do, BSN makes the same as ADN, MSN makes more, but not sure what, and CCRN makes a whopping 35 cents more an hour

Really depends on what you want to do. Working with adults vs working with kids is very different! The type of head problems that you will see also very different, Peds will be mostly congenital problems while in adults you will see some congenital d...

we've only got a tech 4 nights a week, but when she is there she stocks the rooms and cleans when her help is not needed elsewhere, but if we're giving a bath, turning a patient, etc, she is there

I would personally never sit by myself with one patient, regardless if they're a DNR or a Full Code, obviously the DNR I would feel a little more comfortable with, but a Full Code and you said that they were vented? I would prefer another nurse, but ...

Same with regular I/O total in minus total out, iv fluids, tube feeds, etc, minus crrt minus ct, ng output, urine output if they're having any

I usually 'half it' on my first day off I will sleep til 2 or so and then I will go back to bed around 3 am and then be up around 11 or so the next day, it seems to work well for me, on my nights off I will catch up on all the tv shows I've taped whi...

I got a 7000 dollar sign on bonus, i had to sign a two year contract, we got half up front and then the other half halfway through.

It depends on what this woman has done throughout her life and what sort of medications she is used to taking. Not that I don't agree with you that is a lot of medication, but if she is someone who has taken a lot of various medications throughout he...

if you know going into the situation that its going to be a bad one sometimes you can put a really strong smelling lotion under your nose? I used to do that during disection in school.

it varies state by state so it would be best to check with your state board of nursing, In my state LPNs cannot give iv medication unless they have an iv certification and even then they are limited in what they are able to do with the ivs.