CVCURN

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1. Scheduling conflicts

   CVCURN replied to JackFrostRN's topic in General Nursing

   We self schedule on my unit. We do 4-week schedules at a time, we must work either a monday or a friday each week unless you work that weekend as those are our busiest days. We work every 3rd weekend...

2. Shared Governance

   CVCURN replied to CVCURN's topic in General Nursing

   Our monthly staff meetings our lead by our manager. She commonly mentions changes in practice that we are planning to trial for 30 days that shared governance decided on. She also updates us on...

3. Shared Governance

   CVCURN replied to CVCURN's topic in General Nursing

   I appreciate the quick responses. Our manager directly attends our shared governance meetings and is extremely open to change, we are truly blessed. The only reason we don't currently offer multiple...

4. Shared Governance

   CVCURN posted a topic in General Nursing

   We have shared governance at the medical center where I work. We have monthly hour-long shared governance meetings on our unit and then our ideas move up the chain of command to (hopefully) become...

5. Cardiac Nursing for Dummies

   CVCURN replied to CVCURN's topic in Cardiac

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6. Blood Stream Infections (BSI) in your unit

   CVCURN replied to traumasurgRN's topic in Critical Care

   We use Curos caps on all our central lines in combo with the clear caps and ever since making the change hospital-wide we haven't had a single CLAB in over a year. :) Those Curos caps are...

7. Cardiac Nursing for Dummies

   CVCURN posted a topic in Cardiac

   I'm looking for a good general cardiac nursing reference that's not too dense just to brush up on important things and know exactly what I'm talking about as I'm a newer CV Step RN. Any

8. Interviewing as a new grad for Cardiac/Stroke unit

   CVCURN replied to Loving-and-Learning's topic in Cardiac

   I am a new RN on a cardiac/stroke unit. My manager didn't explicitly ask me medically-based questions. Now a days in nursing interviews they tend to be able to decide on your intelligence through the...

9. Best way to break into cardiac nursing

   CVCURN replied to sugarmagnoliaRN's topic in Cardiac

   If you can find a position in a Nurse Residency type program you may be able to get a start directly into cardiology. I got hired into a nurse residency program and they essentially started us as...

10. EKG/Arrhythmia Interpretations

    CVCURN replied to KSHOCARO's topic in Cardiac

    Once hired call the education department at your facility or ask your manager if there is an EKG class available. I work in a level II trauma center and they have a WONDERFUL 4 day EKG course (that we...

11. Help! Cardiac Rehab Discussion

    CVCURN replied to gretz208's topic in CCU, Coronary, Cardiac

    I don't know if you're still working on this project, but if so I can give you a run down on the rehab we educate our post-CABG patients on in my unit. Starting day 1 post-op they are to walk 4 times...