LadyKai
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I'm currently working (as a New Grad) Tele Night Shift... Sometimes we have 4-5 patients if we don't have a vent. If we have a vent, we have about 3 patients... plus admissions coming in. Is 18 shifts enough for a Tele unit orientation. I'm about 6 shifts in and I feel good, but I'm also nervous and uneasy. I'm not so sure about the staff and their "helping" factor just yet... *sigh* I'm scared to ask a bunch of questions but I am a new grad... I feel like they judge me. :/
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Hello everyone, Just got an offer for telemetry night shift. I'm a new nurse. My question is how can I adjust to start working a full-time night shift 7pm-7am. I start in august and I want to prepare my mind for this. Does anyone have any suggestions. I would like to be a day person on my days off... but not entirely because I don't want my schedule to be completely out of wack. Any suggestions would help :) Thank you!
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So let's say that I found that the total infusion was 50ml/hr I don't even have to find out the titrate and subtract that from my total infusion for the hr? Or am I creating a problem for myself? I'm guessing it's just fluff... yet thank you so much for the quick response. I appropriate it a lot!
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I've never had to ask for help like this before. I'm in critical care in my last semester and I really need help w/ this IV problem. Of course... I don't want an answer I just need help with the setup and how to solve the problem... Omg if anyone could help me I'd be very grateful! A patient weighs 71kg. Order: (medication for sepsis) 10mg/250ml IV Start with 1mcg/kg/min then titrate by 0.05-0.1 mcg/kg/min every 5 minutes. This will help maintain the patients blood pressure. Start the (medication) drip. What is the rate of infusion in ml/hr? I know how to find the rate of infusion for the 1/mcg/kg/min... BUT I'm confused what the Titrate is for and how that comes into play. Say I worked out the problem (minus the titrate info) and I got 30ml/hr. What will the titrate do to that... do I even need to mess with the titrate? Please help me!