RYNOBLASTER30

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  1. Traveling ICU nurse wants to take a PACU position...

    RYNOBLASTER30 posted a topic in California Nursing

    Been a nurse for 7 1/2 years. Five of them have been in the intensive care unit. Worked sporadically in cath lab holding, ER, and stepdown. Wanting to take a traveling assignment working in the...

  2. Pray for me....

    RYNOBLASTER30 replied to clee1's topic in General Nursing

    good

  3. Who Must "Take the Fall?"

    RYNOBLASTER30 replied to Simplepleasures's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    The

  4. Interview Advice Please!!

    RYNOBLASTER30 replied to brookesbuddy's topic in Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist

    B on Ur best

  5. Do you regret being a nurse

    RYNOBLASTER30 replied to lpnstudentin2010's topic in General Nursing

    Of course. The health care system is taxing upon all of us. Especially those times when you get the comatose vent patient from the nursing home with a gazillion pressure sores. I get little...

  6. Jcaho Medication Reconciliation

    RYNOBLASTER30 replied to SEOBowhntr's topic in Patient Medications

    You know, working in the ICU, these medications change so rapidly. I'm busy getting my patient settled and stabilized. I don't have time to find out why/why not the MD didn't continue certain meds....

  7. ICU Nurses with OCD!!!

    RYNOBLASTER30 replied to nursern20's topic in MICU, SICU

    Leave the cleaning to the housekeeper, and the stocking to the stockers. You should be taking care of your patient, not doing every one elses

  8. ICU Nurses with OCD!!!

    RYNOBLASTER30 replied to nursern20's topic in MICU, SICU

    :monkeydance: Please, I work as a ICU nurse, and we don't need these anal retentive, psychotic nurses. They are the ones who don't leave the patients alone so that they can get much needed rest if...

  9. Diagnosis..

    RYNOBLASTER30 replied to PACU queen's topic in MICU, SICU

    Don't forget, depending upon where you work. You might get alot of long termers from the nursing home who are trached, pegged, with numerous pressure sores. Not much fun. These patients are...

  10. how does your icu perform shift to shift reports??

    RYNOBLASTER30 replied to christen13's topic in MICU, SICU

    How about reading the chart.

  11. Does teh new ACLS guidelines make a difference?

    RYNOBLASTER30 replied to burn out's topic in MICU, SICU

    To be honest with you the changes are not that drastic. Overall mortality for a patient that arrests either in or out of a hospital is about 65%, pretty high. I have been to numerous codes in my...

  12. Excessive secretions No Gag Any Ideas senior nurses?????

    RYNOBLASTER30 replied to kampswas's topic in MICU, SICU

    Maybe all he needed was a DNR

  13. Doctor comebacks

    RYNOBLASTER30 replied to NiceShot's topic in MICU, SICU

    Hey, go to a teaching facility. You rarely see that type of inappropriate behavior. The type normally comes from older physicians, not new and younger ones. Just remember, they are made that they...

  14. Doctor comebacks

    RYNOBLASTER30 replied to NiceShot's topic in MICU, SICU

    :monkeydance: :monkeydance: Just another nurse trying to play

  15. Physician Complaint

    RYNOBLASTER30 replied to HelloAgain's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    Forget about it. Come one, you did what was best for the patient at that particular time. It appears as if you acted appropriately. Screw the physician. I mean, these old cranky asses. Remember...

  16. .. First Night Floating... First Med Error

    RYNOBLASTER30 replied to Dempather's topic in First Year After Licensure

    :monkeydance: To be honest with you, i wouldn't have said a thing. That little difference, one time, wasn't going to hurt either of them. Put it behind you and move on. ****

  17. Dear nurse, I really don't want to bother you

    RYNOBLASTER30 replied to JeanettePNP's topic in General Nursing

    :monkeydance: This will solve the problem: Listen here all of you managers, nursing supervisors, and DON. We are not all and mighty. Get us more ancillary staff to meet the needs of our patients,...

  18. st segment monitoring

    RYNOBLASTER30 replied to rarjn5's topic in CCU, Coronary, Cardiac

    hey, we should let the physician worry about the diagnosis. to often us nurses try to diagnose, we arent trained 4

  19. DNRCC in the CCU

    RYNOBLASTER30 replied to msn2008's topic in CCU, Coronary, Cardiac

    :monkeydance: You know statistically that approx. 1 in 5 patients admitted to the ICU will die. That's about 20 %, a relatively high number. You would think that because of that, we would take a...

  20. NaHCO3 for BP?

    RYNOBLASTER30 replied to hellonurse36's topic in CCU, Coronary, Cardiac

    :monkeydance: The patient is dead no matter whay you do. Everything appears to be

  21. CVP readings

    RYNOBLASTER30 replied to sazza's topic in CCU, Coronary, Cardiac

    Occured the other day. I kept hearing this nurse say that her patients CVP was negative. You can't have negative numbers. If you do, then the set up is incorrect. Remember that normal CVP...

  22. Angiography/Angioplasty's , post SK admintration.

    RYNOBLASTER30 replied to Marchantia's topic in CCU, Coronary, Cardiac

    I think as a general rule it would be 24 hours. That is the amount of time that you aren't suppossed to give any IM injections or draw any blood. I have had patients who received a thrombolytic at...

  23. Causes of unequal pedal pulses

    RYNOBLASTER30 replied to Dakkon76's topic in CCU, Coronary, Cardiac

    is the foot warm/dry. Godd cap refill. Then probably not a medical

  24. eICU - Anyone using this?

    RYNOBLASTER30 replied to IVTeam's topic in CCU, Coronary, Cardiac

    :monkeydance: I believe that those eICU are staffed with a physician. So if you disagree with the nurse, you could always ask for the MD to step

  25. Views on New Grads Entering Critical Care

    RYNOBLASTER30 replied to ICUNurse11's topic in CCU, Coronary, Cardiac

    :monkeydance: hey erika, i don't thing starting out in the icu is a bad thing. although it can be extremely overwhelming. you really would need to get in with a good, young, energetic, knowledgeable...