mandi131

Hi Everyone! I am an L&D nurse at St. Luke's in Boise and have had the absolute wonderful benefit of having Katie and Teresa be a part of much of my education here. The OB-ACLS class is great! I took it about a year ago and it was absolutely worth the extra 6 hours of OB content added on top of regular ACLS, it really clarifies the modifications you would make in a gravid woman while still sticking to classic ACLS priciples. Plus, I am certified by the AHA so if I decided to work elsewhere my certification would transfer. This class is relatively new which is probably why some have not heard of it. I know they travel all over to teach the class and if you have the opportunity to take it I would absolutely recomend it or contact St. Luke's in Boise for more information.

I have worked on a cardiac floor now for two years and have seen it go from top notch to bottom of the barrel. When I started there were great experienced nurses to learn from but politics have set in and most of them have left. We are now left with mostly new grads who have not taken ACLS and I am not kidding 2 nurses who have been RN's for more than a year on night shift. This is critical care and most of the nurses couldn't run a code if there life depended on it. There was a case a couple of weeks ago where a woman in her 40's was on my floor for an hour, coded, and died. All the while no one had remembered to turn on the the equipment to record the heart rhythms. So this woman died and there is really no documentation. Is this not just a crazy, unsafe way to run a floor? I know at this point I don't even think I would go to this hospital for myself. This is not just an isolated event. Situations like this happen all of the time. There needs to be a balance of new and experienced nurses.