aileen.crespo

Hey! I used to work at Mercy Hospital and wanted to enroll in their LPN program. Just like you guys they told me i would have to wait to start in 2011, so i went to Lindsey Hopkins instead. I just started the LPN program yesterday,and so far so good. However, since you're in the process of registering and taking entrance exams, do you know about any information on their LPN-RN bridge program? I believe they have the "school of nursing" for LPNS, and then they also have the "college of nursing" for RNS and is there a waitlist?. Just wondering :heartbeat... let me know if you hear anything. *~Aileen~*

I had a patient with a balloon rupture. During the night shift there were frequent alarms for a leak but the helium tank seemed full and the patient had stable vs and it continued pumping. When i arrived at 7am i noticed that the tube looked "dirty" and turned the lights on. We looked closely and saw little brown specks on the tubing wall and decided that there may be a rupture. The interventional team came and we took the patient emergntly to the cvl and attempted to remove the pump but it would not come out. A surgeon was called in stat to surgically remove the balloon while another one was placed in the other groin as the patient was extremely balloon dependent. A cutdown was down and the catheter removed and was found to have a very large hardened dried blood formation in the tube about 3/4" wide and 2' long. It would have ruptured the femoral had the surgeon not removed the catheter. The patient did well and was eventually weaned but this is reason that our hospital requires 1:1 nursing care of the iabp patient.