jlayne

After the written order from Doc, we place a yellow wrist band on the patient, a yellow sticker on the outside of the chart as well as flag the original order and a sticker on the id plate. then its noted in numerous places in kardex, nurse to nurse reports and assessment charting.

I used http://www.randylarson.com/acls/master/ while in school, it was good practice. ECGs made easy was a good book to learn and practice with. Stand behind the telemetry monitors as much as possible, and practice practice- :) Good luck!!

I'm on a telemetry/stroke floor and its 7-8 pts/ RN with a tech...its gets pretty hetic esp when pts are having active cardiac issues rather then just stable and being monitored.

On the floor I work on, Telemetry, we have people admitted for 23 hour obs that are mostly chest pain r/o MI... draw their cardiac enzymes and go from there, maybe about 75% of the time they are upgraded to inpatient status because they have to stay longer for one thing or another.

Help the man to the commode! All that seems like to me is that the nurse doesn't want to bother with her patients needs or DIGNITY. For goodness sake, wouldnt it save him/her time to help him to the commode to go rather than answer call lights all day/night long?!? I work on a stroke floor and these people are already dealing with loss of function, if he can get to the commode with assist, at LEAST give him that!