melindasue22

Thanks for the feedback. I was referring to the lead wires you can kinda see in the picture that attach to the telemetry pack. Our nurses wipe them off after every patient but never replace them if they are in bad shape. I see a lot with cracks around the grabber part and found one with some gooey red stuff on it that was like a melted gummy bear of something. They do a good job of trouble shooting issues initially but will just grab a new telemetry pack with differ wires already atttached all together instead of swap out for new lead wires because they don't keep any extra on the floor. We are a small hospital so I was trying to share with the floor manager any best practices that may be in place from other places instead of just saying "hey you need to stock wires on your floor." We are a small facility and in trying to have good customer service have always helped out but technically it should come from their pot of money for supplies not our pot of money for repairs.

Hi. I am a biomed tech and wanted to know if anyone can point me to some resources for a protocol for telemetry lead replacement. Do you replace your every so often, or just when they are broke or uncleanable? I replaced leads on a unit the wasn't working and its good to go now but there weren't any new leads on the floor so I had to take some from my shop and it got me wondering. I wasn't sure if there is a best practice out there that says you replace them every quarter or anything like that. They are tough to clean the way I see it. There are disposable leads too to help with infection control purposes, does anyone use those? How do they work out for you?

A little background first. So after I finished my LPN program 2 1/2 years ago with the army I started working in an office position in home care. I kinda fell into the position because a week after I graduated and I had my son and I figured it would be a nice way to ease into things since I hated the thought of working and leaving my son home. Well I had a few patients and then I started working full time in the office. I must admit I was also a little nervous about some other positions too because the majority of jobs in Michigan are at SNFs and I had no experience in that and I was hesitant of becomeing burnt out from a poor patient to nurse ratio. I have finally realized that if I am going to ever progress anywhere in my career I have to get my butt out of an office to maintin my skills and get real nursing experience. So I figured I need to pull up my big girl britches and get out there before I forget everything. Last week I applied for a job at the Detroit VA and they called me in for an interview. She said that it would most likely be a panel interview. What kinda of questions would they be asking? I figured they would ask basic interview questions and I am prepared to discuss my lack of clinical experience (I discussed it in my cover letter so they are aware). Do they ask nursing/clinical question for positions like this? I am rusty and have been going through my pharmacology book. I feel that with a good orientation I would do okay but I really don't want to mess up the interview. Any thought or advice? Also, the job is a midnight shift 12-8am. I figure I would do morning meds but any one have any tid-bits on how nights differ from a day shift? I've never done nights. Thank You.