filigirl23

I need advice bc as a PACU nurse for one year I do not react quick enough to airway complications. I have difficulties in when to use an oral or nasopharyngeal airway, when to bag or narcan a patient. I know I need to bag a patient if hypoventilating or laryngospasm. I just don't feel I react quick enough. Sometimes crna is helpful and sometimes not and this usually occurs when fellow RNs are busy. And then I will have to get anesthosiologist. I spent all this money on this electronic stethoscope and sometimes I hear lung sounds and sometimes I don't. I just feel I'm confident at times in my assessments and I read material, ask questions, and watch other nurses but still have a hard time. Does anyone have advice for me. And pediatric patients I wish I could be more confident.

Just want to know exactly what cheyne stokes and agonal breathing are? There is no video that does it justice

Next time if I have an iv that is going off and I don't know why I will just change iv tubing and pump. Bc like I was saying it was flushing good, the iv line was not kinked or clamped. I was my patients room almost every hour.

The location of the iv did t seem it would of affected the moment of his hand as if it was all positional like an ac iv.

I had an iv pump that kept saying distal occlusion. The line wasn't linked and iv flushed and looked fine. If it says distal occlusion, do you think something was wrong with the iv even though there was no real physical signs something wrong with iv. I did see his right hand was a little bit bigger than the left. He had a lower forearm iv to the right side. He had no pain and the temperature of his skin was the same on both hands which was warm. Please share your knowledge.