debthern

debthern has 16 years experience and specializes in NICU, PACU, Pediatrics.

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1. all PACU RNs Wrote up!

   debthern replied to jrgrad1912's topic in PACU

   We have to have an anesthesia note signed before our patients can be discharged but it has nothing to do with our practice it is because if it is not signed medicare will not

2. On-call pay...standard or not?

   debthern replied to BabyLady's topic in General Nursing

   We have an interesting call situation during the week in that we are on call Mon-Fri for the full week, we get paid for 40 hours and work in the unit 2 6 hour shifts during the day and then are on...

3. Transition from computer to paper charting

   debthern replied to starletRN's topic in General Nursing

   we recently went to computer and while I have gotten used to it I still feel that patient care is

4. New PACU Nurse

   debthern replied to mrrn12's topic in PACU

   :chuckle omg this is exactly what I say a dozen times a day and then they fall back to sleep and wake up and say when am I going to have my

5. I Hate Surg!!!

   debthern replied to ChristineN's topic in General Nursing

   guess I am a little confused about the no verbal/telephone orders...is the doctor supposed to get up in the middle of the night and drive to the hospital to write an order? You would have alot of...

6. I Hate Surg!!!

   debthern replied to ChristineN's topic in General Nursing

   All of our drugs are ordered based on patient weight not age but if you are taking a phone order you should know what the safe dose is...We don't take verbal orders but we do take phone orders but...

7. Patient assignments

   debthern replied to Laney123's topic in PACU

   we are assigned 2 nurses for each 3 slots we alternate who gets a pt and example is nurse a and b are in slot 1,2,3 nurse a gets slot 1 and nurse b slot 3 nurse a gets a pt and they both get the...

8. Cardiac Sheaths

   debthern posted a topic in Cardiac

   Our pediatric PACU was informed that we would begin pulling sheaths at the bedside and no longer in the Cath lab is this appropriate? Is it done in other hospitals? Are the patients still sedated as...

9. Does each unit have a procedural manual

   debthern replied to fsaav's topic in General Nursing

   our hospital has all the manuals on the intranet it's under Policy and Procedures. Good

10. Who numbs for needlesticks?

    debthern replied to care4kids's topic in Pediatric

    We use lmx4 in our preop dept and also use lidocaine depends on how old the patient

11. Just worked a day in Nursing Hell

    debthern posted a topic in General Nursing

    Sorry to vent but we started computer charting today and it was horrible we were totally unprepared and had to put the OR on hold more then

12. Anyone participate in a Clinical ladder program?

    debthern replied to Nacki's topic in General Nursing

    we have clinical ladder at our work we get 10% for each of the two steps...it was some extra work but not that bad and definitely worth the extra

13. Families can now call the code team

    debthern replied to rn-jane's topic in General Nursing

    We have a care team here that the families can call...it isn't our Code team but a team that comes and

14. Post op Pedicatric transports without an RN

    debthern replied to ativanni's topic in PACU

    we have cna's who transport all patients if they are not on a monitor, do not have an epidural or a chest tube...of course the nurse transport the icu

15. PACU RN requirements

    debthern replied to smnurse's topic in PACU

    something we do is we assign 2 nurses to 3 bays which allows you to put a more experienced nurse with a less experienced