tnt1985

tnt1985 has 2+ years experience and specializes in Cardiac Surgical ICU.

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1. Are you a nurse? Do you draw blood? Can you take our Quick Survey?

   tnt1985 replied to swytas's topic in Student Assist

   what is your educational background? bsn years of experience? 2+ years drawing blood? 3 years what kind of education did you get for doing blood draws? learned from trial and error on the job or by watching others. what was the most challenging par...

2. Please Help with Care plan

   tnt1985 replied to LuvmybysLuv2runLuvnrsng's topic in Student Assist

   You are definitely thinking in right direction. Most patients who are septic from an infection or bacteremia are vasodilated due to the release of inflammatory mediators (a response to an overwhelming infection). Even with fluid resuscitation these p...

3. Need Help w/ Care Map - Cardiomyopathy

   tnt1985 replied to MJ_14's topic in Student Assist

   You are definitely on the right track! First, remember that cardiomyopathy is a disorder involving the structure and function of the myocardium. There are also different types of cardiomyopathy: dilated, hypertrophic, and restrictive. Clinical presen...

4. Walking vented patients

   tnt1985 replied to Verbatim's topic in MICU

   I work in a Cardiac Surgical ICU and we have walked vented patients, but this is rare. These patients are usually post-lung transplant patients that have a trach in place and are having difficulty being weaned from the vent. These patients usually ar...

5. Standard practice for arterial line pulls

   tnt1985 replied to butofcourse's topic in Cardiac

   Most new ICU staff hires have at least an 8 to 12 week orientation (based on previous experience). During orientation most nurses should be able to experience removing arterial lines. On my unit (Cardiac Surgical ICU), pulling arterial lines is neces...