DUKEFAN13
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Not always...depends on your hospital. Make sure if you are working med-surge that you work in an area that will get you into the ICU that you want to work for, this def helps!....For instance, I worked up on neurosurgery for one year then tranferred down to the surgical-trauma ICU. This got me in the door...I hope this helped!
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NO!!....do not turn patients on an oscillator....you loose the peep and pressure you've worked so hard for....why would you do that?.....Remember that the pateint will not be on an oscillator forever...theres usually two ways out of this.....if the patient makes it back to conventional ventilation then you go ahead and turn all you want. Better to have a living patient with a small pressure ulcer than a dead patient....