Hi all, I am a nurse in a pediatric CVICU and am a member of our CLABSI prevention team. We have been testing various closed systems for line draws because we obviously have to access our lines...
Our VAD kids stay with us in the CICU, we won't send them to the stepdown so they are at most a 2:1 assignment. As far as dressing changes our current kids don't require sedation although if the risk...
PedsRNCVICU replied to raindrop's topic in Cardiac
We have 2 monitor techs at all times covering our ICU and step down unit. Its hit and miss as far as having a CA or unit sec but our CAs don't get to do much hands on with pts
PedsRNCVICU replied to dbell198's topic in Cardiac
We currently have three pts on our unit with LVADs, one Heartware and two Berlins. We had in-services from company reps and training with our unit educator then had skills validations as far as...