RescueNinja

RescueNinja has 1 years experience and specializes in ICU, ER.

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1. What is the most interesting case you've seen in the ER?

   RescueNinja replied to BigDiesel's topic in Emergency

2. IVP vs IVPB

   RescueNinja replied to PediLove2147's topic in General Nursing

   I'm really surprised to see people saying you need an order to piggyback something. I have never seen an order for anything other than "IV." You can dilute things as much as you want as long as it...

3. Holy guacamole, this new grad just scored an awesome gig!

   RescueNinja replied to autbot4500's topic in First Year After Licensure

   Congratulations!

4. First shift off orientation.

   RescueNinja replied to Crux1024's topic in Emergency

   Wow I'm so jealous of all your orientations! I had 8 shifts before I was thrown to the

5. What the what??

   RescueNinja replied to pockunit's topic in General Nursing

   Here you go :) Push the little pronunciation button at the top

6. What the what??

   RescueNinja replied to pockunit's topic in General Nursing

   So many of these drive me bananas. The worst is O2 Stats. Or the patient is statting at whatever. Those make my skin crawl! Shortly after I started a new job about an hour and a half from where I live...

7. low pressure alarm if trach comes out?

   RescueNinja replied to nursedelia's topic in General Nursing

   I did not read through all the posts so this may have been posted already, but the very first thing I check when I have a trach patient (okay, second thing after code status) is that I have an extra...

8. first code

   RescueNinja replied to LouisVRN's topic in General Nursing

   I have taken part in many codes including a few hours ago and yesterday too. My first was in my third semester of NS. None of them were my patients and none of them survived, unfortunately. Since I...

9. Oxygen by mask

   RescueNinja replied to melissa3333's topic in International Nursing

   I agree with other posters. I would never wait for an order to put my pt on O2 if I felt it was necessary. You do need to be careful, but you will learn who can tolerate the O2 and who can't. Now I...

10. What can you run iv tylenol with.

    RescueNinja replied to evolvingrn's topic in General Nursing

    The only incompatibilities listed on Medscape are diazepam and

11. Drugs used on adult critical care unit

    RescueNinja replied to rn_yogi's topic in Critical Care

    We use Propofol almost exclusively, but if BP is an issue and Levophed is not working well enough or if we are unable to wean pts off the Levophed within a day or two, we tend to ask for the...

12. critical care texts

    RescueNinja replied to krista312's topic in CCU, Coronary, Cardiac

    http://www.amazon.com/Critical-Care-Nursing-Made-Incredibly/dp/1609136497/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1322615881&sr=8-2 I don't have this book in particular, but I have several others from the...

13. am I covered by my facility when transporting?

    RescueNinja replied to shisquy's topic in General Nursing

    Your facility should have a policy on this. Mine does. As long as we follow our facility's P&Ps for our department/specialty we are

14. Scope of practice ?

    RescueNinja replied to cornettclan's topic in General Nursing

    We thought this at my facility (LTC) too until one of our local coroners was angry that we hadn't been putting anything in the preliminary cause of death section of our facility's internal paperwork....

15. Worst doctors orders ever received

    RescueNinja replied to jenfromjersey's topic in Emergency

    Not that the orders weren't warranted, but I recently had 2 patients that the EDP saw back to back and ordered a soapsuds enema for both of them...30 minutes before my shift ended. Not