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    MICU vs SICU

    OhioCCRN replied to RN_survivor's topic in MICU, SICU

    i'm biased, our MICU is all Pneumonia/RF and ARDS. SICU is where all the action is! If you want crazy sick patients w/ drains out of every orifice, tubed/ titrating meds (pt on 8-15 drips at a time),...
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    Port protectors and scrub the hub

    OhioCCRN replied to varc's topic in General Nursing

    EBP has proved that the caps (curos in this case) do help prevent CLABSI. (My unit has less than 1% CLABSI
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    Studer Group "Bedside Shift Report SM"

    OhioCCRN replied to DVorahRN's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    Urgh! I hated the mini consultations during bedside report with the families chiming in and contradicting everything! Thank goodness for ICU where we kick out the families and can give a nice thorough...
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    PICC line contraindications

    OhioCCRN replied to RNexplorer's topic in Critical Care

    Good list. Also, in cases where an ESRD patient needs long term abx, consider a med port
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    What About Post-Op Bathing?

    OhioCCRN replied to medtech000's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    If he could recline on a chair, then the basin/warm water and wipes could suffice. He could get his "area's" and get help with his back. (this is what we used to do when i worked medsurg) also, I know...
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    Question on reacting to tachycardic afib

    OhioCCRN replied to DatMurse's topic in Cardiac

    My 2 cents: I absolutely hold medications and THEN inform the provider. As a nurse, you are an educated individual who should understand medication implications/side effects and know when it is...
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    pancreatitis- demerol or morphine?

    OhioCCRN replied to ducks123's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    We do not use Demerol at my hospital ( very VERY rarely ) pancreatitis gets
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    cheap schools for rn to bsn programme for international student

    OhioCCRN replied to vanillasumy's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    Depends on which state you are looking at Depends on what the board of nursing says your current degree translates to in the USA Depends on how far along in th immigration process you are
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    Eating on the VENT

    OhioCCRN posted a topic in General Nursing

    I know this may sound like a really really dumb question.... more frequently, i have seen patients on the ventilator with food trays.... this does not make any sense to me... one patient in...
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    Eating on the VENT

    OhioCCRN replied to OhioCCRN's topic in General Nursing

    thanks! new to critical care and still operating under the " vent = npo "
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    Levophed concentration and hospital policy.

    OhioCCRN replied to calivianya's topic in Critical Care

    Maybe we are just lucky but our fellows are remarkably fast about lining patients (central/art) so we don't usually run into the peripheral issue, also being such a high acuity hospital, patients who...
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    No briefs?! Is this an ICU thing?

    OhioCCRN replied to paramedic-RN's topic in Critical Care

    In the SICU, We use chux pads (not the tiny blue ones but the huge white ones that hold a lot) easier to manage/ easier to change because we fecal management systems and flexi seals all manage to...
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    Charge nurse taking patients in ICU

    OhioCCRN replied to nightengalegoddess's topic in MICU, SICU

    oh how funny re: 1:1 CRRT. in my ICU, you get 2 patients on CRRT and you keep things moving. not ideal but
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    60 Minutes Interviews Presbyterian Nurses Lessons Caring for Ebola Patient Mr. Duncan

    OhioCCRN replied to PMFB-RN's topic in Disaster Preparation

    it made me tear up and i was so proud of them! They painted the picture of our everyday nursey lives, watching patients pass all alone with only the nurse their to hold their
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    Post-operative gas pains

    OhioCCRN replied to Double-Helix's topic in Pediatric

    *guilty* of telling patients that the gas is moving toward their shoulders thanks for educating me re: phrenic nerve innervation! I never really thought about the anatomical impossibility of the...
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    ICU pay differential?

    OhioCCRN replied to Mr. Murse's topic in Critical Care

    I got ~$1 pay raise for moving to the ICU, also, i was ACLS certified before I got there. i think it depends on the acuity of your patients, our Med-surg patients would be in an ICU at other...
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    *rolling my eyes*

    OhioCCRN posted a topic in Disaster Preparation

    Here we go again with the media spouting idiotic information that they have no idea about and that cannot be explained with a few "google searches" i find I am deeply irritated with the article about...
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    *rolling my eyes*

    OhioCCRN replied to OhioCCRN's topic in Disaster Preparation

    There are no direct flights (or very few) from the West African region (many countries, not just one) to the United States. So.... "Stopping" flights from that region does not work. People connect...
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    "Houston we have a problem" This just got very real

    OhioCCRN replied to Esme12's topic in Disaster Preparation

    this is a reply to Sloan RN. In the case of projectile vomit and projectile Diarrhea.... would you rather: - Complete protection in the form of a Hazmat suit? or.... - Lovely CDC approved...
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    "Houston we have a problem" This just got very real

    OhioCCRN replied to Esme12's topic in Disaster Preparation

    the more I read about this and the more "news" we have trickling toward us, I am affirmed in my decision that I will only care for an Ebola patient if I am availed the same equipment as the Hazmat...
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    Monitoring nurse rounds??

    OhioCCRN replied to TeneshaO'Neal's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    They are horribly unreliable! i guess it depends on how they are wired. A patient said i had NEVER been in in their room (at 12pm) and my manager was able to show her the print out of how many times...
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    "Houston we have a problem" This just got very real

    OhioCCRN replied to Esme12's topic in Disaster Preparation

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    Are physicians that thick?

    OhioCCRN replied to nynursey_'s topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Thank goodness for art lines and the ICU! OP the situation you described was my daily battle on the floor. MD's would place an order for labs and 2 minutes later ask why it had not been drawn. Serial...
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    Please Start!

    OhioCCRN replied to Pepper The Cat's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    Please start: Explaining to patient that PRN means as needed. Not "due" . Why am I always looking like the bad guy for assessing pain and its a zero, yet the patient says well, I am due for my pain...
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    Goodbye...

    OhioCCRN replied to Music in My Heart's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I for one will miss your post! I cannot even begin to understand how whiny people are on the thread you started! if its not "nurses eating their young" its " i will lose my license (that i do not...