Nursemommi

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  1. What do you guys use for art lines??

    Nursemommi posted a topic in PICU, Pediatric

    Hi there :). We are a 20 bed PICU with many cardiac surgeries. Our current practice for art line blood draws is an open system. These babies that come back from the OR and need hourly labs loose a lot...

  2. Just want to be a good PICU nurse!

    Nursemommi replied to irishgirl11's topic in PICU, Pediatric

    I agree with Annaiya. I had a hard time with this when I first started! I still - 6 yrs later - am a list maker. I can be flighty at times! I think "forgetting" little things here and there are ok as...

  3. PICU medication dosages to memorize

    Nursemommi replied to Annaiya's topic in PICU, Pediatric

    Atropine, bicarb. Our staff is given a trifold orange "code card" its double sided. It has 5 pages for meds (1 for logo of course:)). Pg. 1 Epi anaphylaxis and code - concentrations and weight based...

  4. Nonresponder to HepB Vaccine

    Nursemommi replied to NewlyGradBSN's topic in General Nursing

    Hey there, just letting you know I went through the same thing. I had a friend that I used to work with that actually looked at the CDC website and said that (i believe) if you have 5 rounds of the...

  5. Test your PEDS critical care knowledge

    Nursemommi replied to NotReady4PrimeTime's topic in PICU, Pediatric

    Ill be waiting in anticipation. Even though I may not be good to answer, I'll try

  6. Coping with pediatric death

    Nursemommi replied to perfectbluebuildings's topic in PICU, Pediatric

    I think one of the hardest times I've had thus far as a PICU nurse is when we had a boy about 9 admitted for "the flu" as his parents thought. He was about my sons age and before that perfectly...

  7. Test your PEDS critical care knowledge

    Nursemommi replied to NotReady4PrimeTime's topic in PICU, Pediatric

    New Year's Eve and the thread goes dead :). Lets pick it up

  8. Precedex tubing

    Nursemommi replied to CICURN07's topic in PICU, Pediatric

    We use standard tubing - we call it Dex. In our PICU we dont have lipid tubing. We use standard for that too, just change the full setup every

  9. Dealing with emotion during patient care.

    Nursemommi replied to Mary Hicks's topic in PICU, Pediatric

    What an excellent post and interesting to read all the responses. We have a social worker where I work in the PICU that when asked "How do you know when they (the child) are done?" She simply replies...