rnarthur

This has been a great thread and I have enjoyed the opinions expressed here. My experience has been one of great cooperation between the differing age groups. Turn over at our facility is very limited. It is possible to be working along side of a new nurse who was once one of your peds patients or a nurse who was present at your own birth. We try to care for each other as family members. When my friend began having some trouble with her hearing I would do the breath sound assessments and she taught me excellent veinipuncture techniques that I have used for years. When my friend retired but had to return to be able to afford her medications, we all knew that someday we would be walking in her shoes and supported her as she had supported us when we took our first painfully slow steps into nursing. It would be wonderful if all nurses could retire while young enough to enjoy some quality of life, but by virtue of our giving nature, we often have nothing for ourselves when the time comes. I have been working at the same hospital for 32 years and plan to continue working at least until age 75. At that age, I may not be as quick as I am now but hopefully I will still be able to have value as a mentor and teacher and the younger nurses will realize that someday they too will be in the same position. I know that we don't always take care of ourselves but we can, and should take care of each other.

Hello, I am new to this site but came here to see if anyone can help me. We are the only hospital in the area still doing tilt table tests on children under 18 years of age. We do not have a policy or protocol specific to children, we have no peds unit or a PICU. The closest children's hospital does not do tilt table testing so I have no point of reference to even write a protocol. We commonly have children go into asystole for 10 seconds or until we get the tilt table down and help lifting the legs. We do not have a pediactric cardiologist on site and half of our hospitalists are PALS certified but may not be on duty at that time. If anyone can give me information on this, I will be very grateful.