CactusFlower

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1. How high have you titrated levophed?

   CactusFlower replied to racing-mom4's topic in MICU, SICU

   Sorry for your experience, but hang in there. You learned alot from this patient, and recieved some very good advice and thoughts from the posts here. Personally, I have worked on pt's that there was...

2. Sepsis case

   CactusFlower replied to poppy07's topic in MICU, SICU

   Really enjoy the input here--and sometimes miss the days of the Swan. Yes, yes, we can go on and on about not having them used. It all boils down to the patient responded and got better. Good

3. To suction the ETT, or not?

   CactusFlower replied to CactusFlower's topic in MICU, SICU

   Thanks guys for all the input. This whole situation boiled down to the RT not suctioning, the nurse (me) suctioning. When the patient was suctioned for lots of secretions, it was an appropratiate...

4. To suction the ETT, or not?

   CactusFlower replied to CactusFlower's topic in MICU, SICU

   This particular patient had a very big pneumonia and pulmonary edema. She was a postoperative abdomen and did not do well. I haven't seen any current literature that supports the stance of the...

5. suctioning the intubated patient...1 nurse/RT or 2?

   CactusFlower replied to kessadawn's topic in MICU, SICU

   I just posted a thread asking if it is current practice not to suction. I have been lectured extensively by the RT's at my current hospital that current practice is not to suction, much less break...

6. To suction the ETT, or not?

   CactusFlower replied to CactusFlower's topic in MICU, SICU

   The most recent rationale was that "current research states that one should not suction and the circuit should not be broken". I am not a nurse that will call respiratory when my patient needs...

7. To suction the ETT, or not?

   CactusFlower posted a topic in MICU, SICU

   I am increasingly irritated in my current position regarding the management of ventilator patients. I am working in a small rual hospital, 6 bed ICU and have been told repeatedly by the respiratory...

8. A nurse's definition of CARING.

   CactusFlower replied to futurenurrse's topic in General Nursing

   All the above posts are excellent, but I am a career nurse and I just wish nursing would get off the word "care"! Just is too cutesy for me anymore. We have struggled as a profession and to this day...

9. Post traumatic stress from job

   CactusFlower replied to jenny456's topic in General Nursing

   I had a very strange experince not so long ago while recerting for PALS. A video was being shown of an infant in very obvious distress--the instructor hands me this baby mannequin and says "ask a...

10. Arterial line insertion by the RN

    CactusFlower posted a topic in MICU, SICU

    Any of you starting your own artlines? At my current facility this is under the realm of respiratory. Have had too many bad experiences for some reason and I want to get my hospital to get the...

11. Burnout!!! What To Do?

    CactusFlower replied to TNnursejane's topic in General Nursing

    Hi TNnursejane. I went thru burnout and didn't realize it until it was too late. I worked many years in an intense environment until my mother suffered a debiliating stoke. It was hard to be a...

12. I am a nurse!!! But this....?!

    CactusFlower replied to CactusFlower's topic in General Nursing

    I need this small hospital. Coming from my background I am running to them. I want to be circled. As a nurse, I have seen Camelot once. I am looking for it

13. Most stressful moment as a nurse?

    CactusFlower replied to mikethern's topic in General Nursing

    Flaerman, my thoughts are with you during this troubling time. As for me and my most stressful moment as a nurse--there have been way too many. I have taken pause in my career in nursing over the...

14. Anyone go from ICU to med-surg?

    CactusFlower replied to TraumaGirl1018's topic in General Nursing

    I am a long time ICU nurse facing floating to a medsurg floor with the expectation of taking a full assignment. Just the opposite from you. PO pills--if it hasn't been IV, I haven't been given...

15. I am a nurse!!! But this....?!

    CactusFlower replied to CactusFlower's topic in General Nursing

    sbadalamente, you hit the key. The CNA's at this facility are entrenched, some have worked at this little hospital 20-30+ years. They "run the floor" and believe they can make or break the nurse....