I am a CCU nurse, and no we are not allowed to intubate. The only people that intubate at our codes are the ER docs. I was a medic for 10 years and have extensive experience intubating but am not...
ccnurse replied to braveheart's topic in MICU, SICU
I work in a 300 bed hospital in the CCU. We used to have to float to the floors, but no more. The problem I had with floating to the floors is trying to treat them all like ICU pts. I am used to doing...
Our CCU has 8 beds and we take care of IABPs on a regular basis. The problem comes in with not having them on a regular basis, as well as not enough training to start with. We had a 4 hour class on...