Verbatim

Verbatim

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  1. Online, accredited RN to BSN ...?

    Verbatim replied to KYRNCA's topic in Online Distance Learning

    Just how important is it to receive a BSN accredited by one of those two bodies? I'm seriously looking at South University. They are accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools....

  2. Carbon Dioxide and ICP

    Verbatim replied to s_wiscombe's topic in Neuro Intensive Care, ICU

    Excellent! Thank

  3. Carbon Dioxide and ICP

    Verbatim replied to s_wiscombe's topic in Neuro Intensive Care, ICU

    Nice! I appreciate the explanation. Please explain triple H therapy! Or does this have nothing to do w/ increased

  4. ICU projects?

    Verbatim posted a topic in Critical Care

    Greetings, Does anyone care to share a project that you or someone else has completed in your ICU. I'm on the Central Line Blood Stream Infection (CLABSI) team. However, I'd like to come up with...

  5. Open Heart Recovery Training

    Verbatim replied to CRIMSON's topic in CCU, Coronary, Cardiac

    i think that you and i worked at the same hospital! please, read a book. yes, cardiac surgery essentials is an excellent resource. be the rn who knows how &

  6. ICU projects?

    Verbatim replied to Verbatim's topic in Critical Care

    Greetings, I apologize for my late reply. I appreciate the recommendations. Sleep has already been covered. Thanks Mary. Aaron, that's a swell idea. I'll start there. As much as we, the staff,...

  7. How can you neglect a patient and live with yourself?

    Verbatim replied to brainkandy87's topic in Emergency

    Yes, there are two sides to every story. My nursing home story: share, I must. I discharged a patient from the telemetry unit that I was floated to, back to his nursing home. The monitor tech....

  8. Walking vented patients

    Verbatim posted a topic in MICU, SICU

    Does your ICU do

  9. how to leave work at work?

    Verbatim replied to erhnurse's topic in First Year After Licensure

    My response to this is: education! If you do not have ACLS, get the certification. It doesn't matter that your unit does not require it. Study for CCRN. It doesn't matter that you are not in the...

  10. Walking vented patients

    Verbatim replied to Verbatim's topic in MICU, SICU

    i appreciate the reply. you have a fan in

  11. Walking vented patients

    Verbatim replied to Verbatim's topic in MICU, SICU

    indeed!

  12. Walking vented patients

    Verbatim replied to Verbatim's topic in MICU, SICU

    I appreciate the comments. I use to work in an obscure hospital. The only people who have heard of said hospital are those people in the region. It is a teaching facility, a level one trauma...

  13. Problem with another nurse

    Verbatim replied to brokenroads27's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    BINGO! Could not agree

  14. Problem with another nurse

    Verbatim replied to brokenroads27's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    there is a right way and a wrong way to do anything. if she truly wanted to make him a better nurse, she could and should, tactfully point out his deficiency. she could at the very least, offer a...

  15. Turn Teams?

    Verbatim replied to canurse24's topic in CCU, Coronary, Cardiac

    I've worked at a hospital with an excellent turn team. As already stated, two trained personnel come q2h to assist with turns. However, unlike the "team" that your unit trialling, this team is...

  16. NIBP monitoring on same arm as the a-line?

    Verbatim posted a topic in MICU, SICU

    I've worked in a MICU for 1.5 years now. Some nurses do not monitor the NIBP when an a- line is in place. Citing discomfort of squeezing the arm hourly as their reason. Some nurses use the opposite...

  17. Drug choice during intubation

    Verbatim replied to IheartICUnursing's topic in MICU, SICU

  18. NIBP monitoring on same arm as the a-line?

    Verbatim replied to Verbatim's topic in MICU, SICU

    Thank you both for your reply. I also prefer to monitor cuff pressure. I prefer to do it qh. I prefer the same arm. We don't always know if there is an impediment to flow through one arm, which...