There is a well studied "cheat" sheet call the "SBAR" - follows is short version S=situation - your name, pt name & room #, problem calling about B=background - date of adm, adm. dx. pertinent medical hx, brief synopsis of the tx to date A=assess...
Afraid - You will not always be afraid unless this has always been your nature. If it hasn't - Time will help Talk to the doctors like they were real people - they are you know - even though some of them don't know it. Ask them how their day is going...
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If you are taking the courses on line you don't need to have the school based in FLorida. Walden University offers a BSN to Masters and was offering a limited number of 50% off tuition to those starting this summer (over with) and this fall. lk
Vicky, Demerol will break down the same way whether it is IV or IM. Demerol is not the drug of choice for the reasons you mentioned as well as - why inflict pain (IM injection:madface: ) to relieve pain when there are so many other choices. We stil...
We try to "special" (1:1) our open heart patients for 8 hours. They are certainly always 1:1 for at least 4 hours. Unless you have some time with the patient as he is waking up how do you know if the patient will be stable? Our opens come to us st...
After CABG a patient has 2 medialstinal cehst tubes and one blake tube laying along the pleural space. The doctors or their PA's remove the chest tubes the morning after surgery and attach the Blake to a J-P blulb for another 1-2 days. The doctors h...
We had a post open patient with multiple dysrhythmias including numerous runs of VT. I believe he was shoked about 40 times during his stay before they decided he was doing well enough otherwise to warrant an automatic defibrilator. In one 24 hour ...
Our care map has the patient recieve D5W @ 50ml/hr and D5W (250ml) w/40mEq KCL @ 25ml/hr. Some doctors give even less fluid. Patients only recieve between 750ml and 1500ml of fluid before their IV is stopped. It is stopped after they are taking fl...
:rotfl: All 3 CT's are removed at once by the PA or MD. They are removed at the same time becuase the amount of pain is not associated with the # of tubes removed but the actual removal. So if they were removed separately the patient would have the...
:rotfl: All 3 CT's are removed at once by the PA or MD. They are removed at the same time becuase the amount of pain is not associated with the # of tubes removed but the actual removal. So if they were removed separately the patient would have the...