anurseuk

anurseuk

Paediatric Cardic critical care

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  1. Things that gross me out....

    anurseuk replied to 2shihtzus's topic in General Nursing

    Oh.... I once was covering in the high dependancy unit and a guy there had a neucrotic scrotum... it was probably the thought that the neucrotic tissue was in that place that made the smell that much...

  2. Things that gross me out....

    anurseuk replied to 2shihtzus's topic in General Nursing

    feacal vomit... nutty peanut butter

  3. Best & Worst Floors to Work On

    anurseuk replied to 987!'s topic in General Nursing

    I'm of course bias but I would say cardiothoracic critical care! I like the pace of new cases coming through straight from theatre, and discharging them to the ward the next day, i like the...

  4. is 7 months okay to ask for a letter of recommendation?

    anurseuk replied to holdensjane's topic in General Nursing

    Yes I would say 7months is adequate... good

  5. CCU Back to the Floor?

    anurseuk replied to HillNPStudent's topic in CCU, Coronary, Cardiac

    Good luck; I personally could never go back and work on a ward. After I qualified I worked on an acute medical ward for about 10months and then went into ICU. I am less stressed, have more time for...

  6. Lasix gtt

    anurseuk replied to brissie's topic in CCU, Coronary, Cardiac

    I work in a cardiothoracic critical care; usually I would check the k every couple of hours, maybe more or less regularly depending on the individual patient... there condition... there response to...

  7. easy way to remember drips...

    anurseuk replied to SheriLynnRN's topic in CCU, Coronary, Cardiac

    Well as a quickie your inotropes will generally be in mcg/kg/min, the dose should be on the prescription and generally with inotopes you will use as much as you need to obtain the aimed for BP....

  8. Critical care hospital acquired infection

    anurseuk posted a topic in CCU, Coronary, Cardiac

    Hi, Has anyone got any information on recent initiative to reduce hospital acquired infection particulaly in critical care? Also, anyone got any thoughts on why critical care patients are more prone...

  9. Open heart ICU

    anurseuk replied to Kiwi's topic in CCU, Coronary, Cardiac

    I think it's a good idea for new grads to have at least 6months ward experience; for time management if nothing else! We have new grads in our unit who really struggle to get pt care and paperwork...

  10. how many years to travel???

    anurseuk replied to night_owl_504's topic in CCU, Coronary, Cardiac

    You can definatly travel with what you have but I think it'd be a good idea to get some more intensive experience; not just with the view of travelling but with experience in general. Usually if your...

  11. Book for CV-ICU

    anurseuk replied to CoCo612's topic in CCU, Coronary, Cardiac

    some that i like are: [color=#003399]cardiothoracic surgical nursing by carl margerson and jillian riley [color=#003399]churchill's pocketbook of intensive care (churchill pocketbooks) by simon m....

  12. Ct-icu

    anurseuk replied to NurseLay's topic in CCU, Coronary, Cardiac

    I work in an adult cardiothoracic critical care. Mainly we recover pt's post cardiac surgery; we also recover thoracic surgery and then take them to the ward. Cardiac pt's will generally come out of...

  13. Lesser of two evils...

    anurseuk replied to moviefan2000's topic in General Nursing

    The

  14. Do you work 36 or 40 hours a week?

    anurseuk replied to 2bTraumaRN2008's topic in General Nursing

    37.5 hours cardiothoracic critical care. Not sure how many nursing staff we have. We have 22 beds. We do 12.5 hour shifts mainly but can do 7.5hour shifts if we want but mainly 12.5 days and nights....

  15. Sample Narrative Charting about Patients with CTT, ET and NGT

    anurseuk replied to musicmaiden's topic in General Nursing

    Can you go into more detail? Not quite sure what you

  16. to sleep or not to sleep???

    anurseuk replied to trmr's topic in General Nursing

    I'll elaboate that as I work in ICU although I try not to wake the patient we never skip on assessments, and it's easier for us to monitor the patient with continuous ECG, BP, CVP (RAP), o2 Sats, PA...

  17. Family just doesn't get it!!!!!!!

    anurseuk replied to AngelfireRN's topic in General Nursing

    Unfortunatly people in general will hear what they want to hear and thats a fact of life! Which can be very frustrating when it's your family, when they KNOW how hard you've studied to get to that...

  18. Really stupid med error

    anurseuk replied to *ac*'s topic in General Nursing

    Some people just have no common sense! In this situation I would just check with the dr and get a one time IV dose prescribed. The thing is when you are a new nurse and don't know any better or a...

  19. If you could have a different profession...

    anurseuk posted a topic in General Nursing

    I've always thought if I wasn't a nurse I'd like to be a firefighter, quite different but then at the same time still a public service. When I was growing up I always wanted to work in a sweet factory...

  20. to sleep or not to sleep???

    anurseuk replied to trmr's topic in General Nursing

    When I worked on an elderly ward I would do whatever I could to keep the patients asleep at night, and to stop the patients from disturbing each other. As someone else mentioned a lot of elderly...

  21. Cant put my finger on it!

    anurseuk replied to D&Ggirl's topic in General Nursing

    Maybe if you US it may be called something different, have a look at this link:

  22. Cant put my finger on it!

    anurseuk replied to D&Ggirl's topic in General Nursing

    Maybe these sort of jobs would be more suited to you: Occupational health nurse Blood donation nurse Outpatients or pre admission clinics working on a renal unit Other day clinics, like sexual health...

  23. Calling Docs by their first name...

    anurseuk replied to zamboni's topic in General Nursing

    If I call one of them Doctor I'm either infront of a patient or dont know there name; which I think they realise so I think they like to be called by there first names. Our clinical fellows are first...

  24. How to NOT cry at work

    anurseuk replied to wooh's topic in General Nursing

    Yes sleep, eat enough, take your breaks when u can or when offered to you. And I think after a while of dealing with these frustrating situations you kind of get used to them and the reaction is not...

  25. You Know the patient is going bad when...

    anurseuk replied to Nurseboy1's topic in General Nursing

    just though of one more... when u come back from break and the theatre team are holding your pt's legs up in the air trying to reestablish a better blood