Christie RN2006

Christie RN2006

SICU, EMS, Home Health, School Nursing

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  1. ICU medicatino

    Christie RN2006 replied to sameericu's topic in MICU, SICU

    I forgot to mention noradrenaline aka norepinephrine or levophed is also commonly used where I work. Levophed is used to increase blood pressure. Some of our docs really like levophed because it is...

  2. ICU medicatino

    Christie RN2006 replied to sameericu's topic in MICU, SICU

    From XB9S's post, I guess you are asking about those 4 drugs... I am yet to see the docs at my facility use an adrenaline infusion. We use epinephrine (we call it epi) infusions very rarely and...

  3. Palpating blood pressures?

    Christie RN2006 replied to Duflinkka's topic in General Nursing

    We are taught to do this in the field if there is too much background noise. What you do is place the BP cuff on, find the radial pulse, blow up the BP cuff like normal and palpate for the radial...

  4. April Fools- Admission slips

    Christie RN2006 replied to mediatix8's topic in General Nursing

    Kinda reminds me of what I was going to do to my NM last night... I had a little guy that loves to play jokes on the nurses (with other peoples help). Like yesterday, with his moms help he toilet...

  5. Tidying up the patient's room is important!

    Christie RN2006 replied to FireStarterRN's topic in General Nursing

    Last night was one of those nights where I walked into both of my patients rooms and they looked like bombs had went off in them!? Trash overflowing, extra supplies laying all over, but totally out of...

  6. Concentrated Care Nightmare

    Christie RN2006 replied to nay537's topic in MICU, SICU

    I work in a department that consists of a 10 bed ICU and a 15 bed step-down unit. We have several nurses that are step-down only, but our ICU nurses work both areas. The two areas are right next to...

  7. Tidying up the patient's room is important!

    Christie RN2006 replied to FireStarterRN's topic in General Nursing

    We only have one designated area that we can keep drinks in, which is in the back hallway behind the nurses station. Anyways, one time I left a half drank bottle of water there and I was kind...

  8. Confused about salary and hourly pay adding up......

    Christie RN2006 replied to kgh31386's topic in General Nursing

    Before taxes...

  9. Peripheral IV lab draws

    Christie RN2006 replied to kimmie518's topic in General Nursing

    We are allowed to draw blood off of peripheral IVs when we first start it, but we can't after we start IV fluids into it. We can draw off of central lines, a-lines and side ports of some of our lines....

  10. LTC Nurse Haivng Problems with and EMT (super long!)

    Christie RN2006 replied to flashpoint's topic in General Nursing

    Sounds like a bad situation to me! I am in EMT school right now and they stress all the time that you need to get creative when on scene and use whatever you have available if you need to. Make sure...

  11. Which Strips Are MOST Dangerous?

    Christie RN2006 replied to pagandeva2000's topic in General Nursing

    Most of our docs say that bigeminy is a stable rhythm, so there is no need to call. I still will call if they go from being in NSR with occasional PVCs to being in bigeminy. We had someone last night...

  12. what are the hours of clinicals now?

    Christie RN2006 replied to tonyakay's topic in General Nursing

    Clinicals have changed so much in the last few years. I now see students at the hospital pretty much every time I am there. We have several that are on night shift for their senior preceptorship. The...

  13. Your getting payed to to be here...

    Christie RN2006 replied to jessiern's topic in General Nursing

    I was getting really grouchy one morning and said something I shouldn't have... my confused and cranky patient was complaining about everything especially the about the fact that she was NPO and on...

  14. Too many new grads??

    Christie RN2006 replied to hope3456's topic in General Nursing

    Back when I started nursing school, they only accepted 30 students a year into the program, which meant only 15-20 actually graduated. Now they accept hundreds every year!! My hospital goes in spurts,...

  15. Confused about salary and hourly pay adding up......

    Christie RN2006 replied to kgh31386's topic in General Nursing

    Those websites usually are not that accurate. Also, a lot of nurses work overtime take for example me. My base pay last year was between 20-21 (I got a raise halfway through the year), I get $3/hr for...

  16. does anyone use swans anymore?

    Christie RN2006 replied to squirlkeeperCCRN's topic in MICU, SICU

    All of the open-heart patients in our CVICU have them post-op. We don't see them very often in the SICU or CCU though. We mostly see CVP and A-lines, but not swans anymore. I'm not sure exactly why...

  17. Supporting charities through work

    Christie RN2006 replied to bluesnurse's topic in General Nursing

    There is a charity that my hospital asks us to donate to and we have to fill out a card saying how much we want to donate. If we don't want to donate anything we have to mark "$0". It makes me mad...

  18. Question? Need some info.

    Christie RN2006 replied to JR321's topic in General Nursing

    I had to be fingerprinted before starting school and before I applied for a license. Some places will make you go through a background check before they will hire you. Be up front if someone asks if...

  19. Nurses pushing a PCA pump for a patient?

    Christie RN2006 replied to rn undisclosed name's topic in General Nursing

    We are not allowed to push the button for the patient. We can encourage the patient to use it, but we are not allowed to do it for them. Sometimes we use our PCAs for just a basal rate that the...

  20. Class of .........

    Christie RN2006 replied to nurz2be's topic in General Nursing

    BSN 2006 I am back in school for EMT-B now and eventually I will go for my paramedic and MSN. I hate school, but I just can't seem to stay out of

  21. Help! Which specialty ER or ICU or OB??

    Christie RN2006 replied to lizva101's topic in General Nursing

    ICU is most definitely not slow paced!! All 3 can be slow paced at times, but extremely busy at times. In all 3 places, you have to be able to think on your feet and be prepared for just about...

  22. Lopressor drip

    Christie RN2006 replied to traumagirll99's topic in CCU, Coronary, Cardiac

    I remember one of my patients who was having HR issues on a lopressor drip. We ran it mg/hr... I can't remember what our exact policy is for it though. It is very very rare to have it as a drip at my...

  23. What about Neuro ICU...

    Christie RN2006 replied to love-d-OR's topic in Neuro Intensive Care, ICU

    Neuro is my favorite! Yes, it can be physically and emotionally draining, but it is also very rewarding. To see a your neuro patient go from "should be dead" to being able to walk out of the hospital...

  24. N Peptide blood test...

    Christie RN2006 replied to momthenRN's topic in MICU, SICU

    Its actually BNP and it is used to diagnose heart failure. The website Craig posted explains it a lot

  25. Money or helping lives?

    Christie RN2006 replied to maddfaiz92's topic in General Nursing

    I would drop everything and move to a third world country right now if I knew the I would be able to a support myself. Right now my life is here in the US, but I do try to take a 2-4 week trip to...