Joycean

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1. cardizem drip nurse/patient ratio

   Joycean replied to lihuejan's topic in Patient Safety Issues

   Our Telemetry unit has a 4:1 ratio. Patient on Cardizem must be monitored continuously and transported with an ACLS certified RN. We take Insulin drips that require no more that every 2 hour blood...

2. Manager vs Leader

   Joycean replied to MedicDanRN's topic in Patient Safety Issues

   You have great insight into what needs to be done to make a good team. Anyone in a supervisor role should have both managerial and leadership skills. I believe the leadership is more important, esp....

3. What does the assistant manager do on your telemetry unit?

   Joycean replied to passing thru's topic in Cardiac

   I took a position as Tele AD in January and it sounds like the duties are very similar. We do staffing, scheduling (self scheduling by staff is in progress), hiring, mentoring, discipline and...

4. Telemetry staff ratios

   Joycean replied to lee1's topic in Cardiac

   We are not a teaching hospital. There are 3 Tele units totaling 88 beds. The ratio is 4:1 24/7. We have 3 nursing assistants on days (12 hr shifts) and 2 on nights, monitor tech 24/7 and health...

5. Type Of Pts Accepted on Telemetry??

   Joycean replied to SCNuttyMeg's topic in Cardiac

   Isn't that the worst. No dignity in dying with that situation. I hate to have a DNR dying patient on the monitor! That's almost as bad as a CCU patient with a monitor at bedside and the family...

6. Type Of Pts Accepted on Telemetry??

   Joycean replied to SCNuttyMeg's topic in Cardiac

   We take lido, heparin, insulin (stable with bg q2 hrs), pronestyl, amiodarone, corlopam, natracor, bicarb, cardiazem, dopamine, dobutamine, integrilin, reopro, vassopressin, no nitro...yet. I may...

7. Nurses caps!

   Joycean replied to FERTMYRTOBRN's topic in General Nursing

   Wow, I haven't worn my cap in years! I wore it, along with a classmate the first shift after receiving our licence. After that we would wear them every year for Nurses Day. They are difficult to...

8. 2 Nurses needed???

   Joycean replied to BrandieRNq's topic in Patient Safety Issues

   I ran a poll on this subject a few months back and 65% of the responding nurses do double checks on insulin. Our hospital policy states double check orders and dosing when drawing up any type of...

9. "The View" insults nursing

   Joycean replied to SandySummers's topic in General Nursing

   I stopped watching The View long ago because of unflattering comments made about another group of people. Specifically, Christians, and not in a joking manner. I feel they tend to generalize...

10. Drs. handwriting - Can you read it well?

    Joycean replied to RN2007's topic in General Nursing

    I worked with a doc that was sooooo bad...he couldn't read it either when asked to clarify! He would just cross it out. He started typing out his orders. Then he bought a computer program that typed...