rnbecky8085

Had a patient once ask for "one of those elephant condoms", he then proceeded to urinate into the blue emesis bag

I've been waiting 15 minutes to be seen, I'm leaving! You can take those AMA papers and shove 'em where the sun don't shine!

Since you are the new nurse on the floor, we thought this would be a perfect learning experience for you!

I do like the idea of the meds in a separate locked box, filled by pharmacy. I also like the idea of the io and iv supplies taken out of the cart and placed in a separate caddy...that's how we do peds iv already and the pca's can continue to stock that. I also like the idea of putting all the ett and blades together and just color coded them.....wonderful ideas everyone....thank you so much!

lol I guess I haven't responded enough...I don't have pm privileges. ha I would really like the photo you offered tho...just send it to [email protected] thanks bunches

The quantity of things may be an issue..usually 2 different sizes of ett, suction caths, and iv needles for each color drawer... i really think we just have a crap cart and thats why things fall out the back. it happens when you open the drawer things get caught and topple out the back side. we dont keep fluids in our cart at all.

OK, not a long story... I just need some new ideas hopefully. I am trying to re-figure my current peds crash cart for our 18 bed ER. Currently i have a Breslow style cart. Color coded drawers with all the equipment but no meds kept in our cart. We pull ours from the pyxis. Our current cart is to small for all the equiptment so the drawers are packed to the gills and are messy and unorganized. When you open the individual drawers the ett's and ng's fall out the back and get stuck. I've been told that i will not get another actual cart and that i need to make this one work....grrrrr. So my thought is why cant the drawers be individualized for their needs? ie: an airway, iv, ng, and foley drawer. I have found that with our color coded system more than one drawer gets opened anyways when digging for the correct equiptment. Has anyone seen a peds crash cart done this way before?? Thanks :) rnbecky ed 9yrs in a 45,000pop town