coco317

coco317 has 1 years experience and specializes in CVICU.

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1. What is the easiest CRRT machine to use?

   coco317 replied to gest1971's topic in Critical Care

   I love the prismaflex. Everything is color coded and the machine has step by step instructions with color coded illustration for set up and any alarm

2. Learning to manage 2 patients?

   coco317 replied to luckynurse_1234's topic in MICU, SICU

   If your hospital does not have a walking report element to shift change, I would get in the habit of going into your room and meeting the patient/family and checking your lines and placement of...

3. Staffing & Patient Acuity

   coco317 replied to tk0224's topic in CCU, Coronary, Cardiac

   IABP always 1:1. Fresh open hearts are 1:1 usually until the next morning when the swan is removed. Sometimes they are 1:1 longer if they are

4. Nervous Noob

   coco317 replied to NYCRN2013's topic in CCU, Coronary, Cardiac

   My advice is to get your kardex/report sheet organized in a way that facilitates your workflow most efficiently. The information you will want to have at your fingertips is probably going to be...

5. How to not appear desperate when I am...

   coco317 replied to lolaviex's topic in Job Search, Interview, Resume

   I applied for basically every open position at the hospital I'm currently employed. I did my preceptorship in a CVICU so I definitely wanted that unit or another ICU or tele floor. On my initial...

6. charting meds dur conscious sedation for another rn

   coco317 replied to nursecheryler's topic in Patient Medications

   In my experience if I'm charting what another nurse is doing I state in my charting "J. Doe, RN applying manual pressure to right groin" during a sheath pull. I would imagine its the same way charting...

7. Thinking of going to ICU/MICU/SICU

   coco317 replied to JetBlitz's topic in CCU, Coronary, Cardiac

   Sounds like you're a great fit for an icu setting! My hospital is in the process of switching to meditech 6.0 with the point and click interface. We have a recall feature (an actual button that reads...

8. Minimum age for a CNA in ohio?

   coco317 replied to JayCimone's topic in Ohio Nursing

   I worked as a STNA at age 17 in the Cleveland area. Just depends on the

9. Considering ICU/CCu

   coco317 replied to martymoose's topic in CCU, Coronary, Cardiac

   Talk to the nurse manager in the icu and let them know you are interested. Try and see if you can set up a shadow experience with an experienced nurse if you're hesitant to transfer. You sound like...

10. Shift change and visitation in ICU/stepdown

    coco317 replied to opossum's topic in MICU, SICU

    I work in a combined ICU /step down. Our posted visiting hours are 11-2 and 5-8. Exceptions for patients going for surgery or an invasive procedure. Limit 2 and no one under the age of 12....

11. Trust?

    coco317 replied to Classymommy's topic in CCU, Coronary, Cardiac

    It could be a number of other factors as well. It sounds like your charge nurse doesn't want to set you up for failure. He/she may be considering the acuity of the patients on the floor vs how many...

12. Med Surg Nurses That Switched Over to ICU Nursing

    coco317 replied to GaMommy81's topic in MICU, SICU

    Gotta keep calm in any ICU setting!

13. ER transitioning to ICU

    coco317 replied to felineRN's topic in MICU, SICU

    In the area where you list your skills I would say "managing and titrating gtts" and during your interview they will ask what gtts you've

14. D-Dimers

    coco317 replied to maloneys's topic in MICU, SICU

    When we have a positive d dimer there's a message that auto populates stating clinical correlation

15. Do you have a clever way to do IS teaching?

    coco317 replied to EGVnurse's topic in Patient Education

    I instruct them to suck in, take rests, coughing is good, keep the little bobber in between the arrows ( I call it the strike zone for those into baseball- that works well with men haha). I then...