TStewartfan

TStewartfan

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About TStewartfan

TStewartfan specializes in ICU, Trauma.


MICU Nurse

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  1. Want to do ICU nursing.....I think

    I love ICU. I came straight out of nursing school right into MICU. I wanted an overall part of the ICU and darn if I didn't get it. We get traumas, COPD pts on vents, cancer pts, in the past month we...
  2. Tncc

    Finished the class today. Got in late when they were going over possible study questions. I was the first to do my practical and passed that with flying colors and then took the exam and had never...
  3. Just got hired in ICU....any advice?

    I got hired directly out of nursing school to work in MICU. I am not a young nurse either was 40 when I got my license so I was apprehensive about being older than those who were training me but...
  4. How often do you assess your patients?

    Our head to toe assessments are done Q4 hours. If a new neuro pt its Q1 and of course we eyeball our patients every hour to record vitals, urine output etc. Sometimes the docs want other certain...
  5. Tncc

    I am taking it as we speak. Our test and practicum is tomorrow. It's not as hard as I thought it would be... let me let you know tomorrow.... But its all common sense head to toe assessment and think...
  6. ICU Nurses with OCD!!!

    I am an MICU nurse and there are a lot on our unit who are OCD but you just about have to be. The people I work with I absolutely adore and could not imagine going anywhere else. If I have two stable...
  7. Need Help with Blood Administration

    I prime with saline up to the secondary blood tubing and prime the filter with the blood itself then set it on 150 ml/hr and let it infuse. I have had nurses that I was with fill the filter up halfway...
  8. Gastric Bypass: trading one set of problems for another?

    I had gastric bypass in 1997 and would do it again in a heart beat. I am no longer on blood pressure medications and my back and legs do not hurt anymore from the excess weight. Yes, I have to take...
  9. patient condition phone calls

    Our policy is that we have the family give a password and we appoint one of them family spokesman. If it gets too ridiculous I tell them to call the family spokesman for an update and that the...
  10. All White Uniform Dress Code?!!

    My hospital has us in either all black or all white or a combination of both. The hospital didn't come up with it so therefore they won't pay for the uniforms or the cleaning of them. The nursing...
  11. Jay Leno slams nurses!

    I don't find his humor funny anyways... sorry to have gotten into the tail end of this conversation but the stereotype of nurses goes way back. Some of the first nurses were those who were convicted...
  12. Why did you take up nursing? What's your story?

    Well, I am still a student but an "older"one at that. I just turned 40 a week ago and I decided that I was sick and tired of being in law enforcement. I worked as a crime scene technician for 10 years...
  13. Our school has a policy of putting first and last names on our badges for everything except our psych rotation and they just blanked out our names and put a sticker over it with our first name and...
  14. What are the item(s) you need most for nursing school?

    I am in the third term of a five semester nursing program. I have a couple of things that I cannot live without. 1. A GREAT COMFORTABLE PAIR OF SHOES.. I had a pair in the first nursing clinical I had...
  15. Problems with Rn's in clinicals

    I agree wholeheartedly with the last paragraph. Just because there are RN's on the floor, doesn't mean they want to deal with students. We as students should know that from the get go. We have one...