We have a surgical ICU and a medical ICU; pts tha go to the ICU unit might be active MI w/emergent cath, complications during the cath (like coding, rhythm changes like to CHB), bleeding...
I'm sorry the nurses weren't more helpful w/breastfeeding but as for your questions about your delivery you should be able to talk to your OB/GYN about your concerns about what happened and having...
At my hospital the ICUs watch their own tele. And the telemetry room for the rest of the hospital is on the step-down unit where I work. They monitor our unit (usually all 30+pt on tele) and the 3...
I have worked on a step-down unit for the last 2 yrs and we take all post-interventions w/out complications (rarely do we send post caths/intervention patients to ICU). My unit can initiate and...