s4twin

sorry off topic but when you scrub do you pan the table and II? i ask because i've been told only rrts and rcis are the only ones can pan.

If cardiology is what you like go straight to CCU or CVICU. there you will learn how to have time management skills plus you actually will learn real critical care. been a ccu/cvicu nurse for 8 yrs and currently in the ccl. it is absouletly essential to have critical care experience in the ccl. 98% of all the caths we do are simple diagonics and intervention. there is just not enough exposure or time to learn from those bad 2% cases. as the only nurse with critical care experience in my lab, its absolutely entertaining to see follow co-nurses run around, nervous, scared with those bad cases especially in the bad stemi patients, where a iabp can be inserted, multiple pressors used, arrhythmias, etc.... by the way er is not critical care.

My understanding is that, its part of a custom form in the mac lab that has to be turned "on". Yes, a nurse has to sign the report, plus the physician and monitor tech. The nurse is signing off the meds that nurse gave, basically its our MAR. My thing is that a cvt or even a arrt is filling out nursing documentation ie pulses,nursing dx, iv site..... Lets be realistic here, the "circulating nurse/in the room" is not going to read 16-20 pages of documentation. To be honest I only look at the medication section. I've brought it up the the cath manager(is not even a nurse, arrt or cvt but thats a whole another topic) and has no clue what the nurse is really responsible for. So if anyone can chime in. tia

by accommodating you make their behavior worst and continue their ignorance. the neo-nazi you assign the black or gay nurse, just maybe that the ignorant nazi met realize black/gay people aren't that bad. the old lady, give her the hispanic, we're not all "macho wife bitters". we live in a time that, that behavior/ignorance is not acceptable and doesn't have to be catered too. if they don't come back, even better.

Wow.... iabp 1:1, never where i worked for eight years. how about one pt with a balloon(no perfusionist) an your other on cvvhd.

wrong.....hermann is not a county hospital. i should know i worked there for almost 8 years. ben taub next to hermann is the county hospital in the medical center.

been a ccu nurse for over 8 years and recently started in the cath lab. my only concern is that we have cvt's, arrt's and one emt doing the documentation in the mac lab and nurse signs the report. there are some portions of the report that require nursing dx and other nursing documentation that "techs" are filling out. my question is, is it the norm for a cvt or arrt to be doing the actual documentation in the mac lab and the nurse signing it off.