ICUPrincessNurse

ICUPrincessNurse

Surgery, Trauma, Medicine, Neuro ICU

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  1. Ativan IVP given undiluted into central line.

    I usually dilute it with some Fentanyl if they're intubated/sedated. If I don't have something else I've giving it with, I usually dilute it with NS purely for ease of drawing it up into the syringe...
  2. Vent: MD visitors who are NOT intensivists

    I had a trauma patient one day (that was all I could stand his family for) and the family marched in a retired endocrinologist family friend from California to ask me questions. First he wanted to...
  3. ICU visiting hours.. What is reasonable?

    We have our visiting hours every even hour, for the first half hour: 6-6:30, 8-8:30, 10-10:30, etc from 6 am to 10pm. Our unit doors lock in between those and we do our best to run families out at...