Shawn417

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1. Central line compatibility

   Shawn417 replied to mfarmer88's topic in Critical

   You were not wrong. Sounds like the manager was trying to make herself look important and all knowing in front of her staff when all she actually succeeded in doing was making herself look incompetent. I would report the incident to your manager bu...

2. Baby RN's running ICU?!!

   Shawn417 replied to kmarieCCRN's topic in Critical

   I understand your anxiety regarding working with new grads in the ICU however I personally hate the term baby nurses. All of us were once new grads just starting out and having to find our way. I have been a nurse for 16 years now and I still hate ...

3. Letting very young children see a dying patient

   Shawn417 replied to Cuddleswithpuddles's topic in Critical

   Children may not be able to fully understand what was going on with their father but in my personal opinion they have every right to see him regardless of his bleeding from every orifice and moaning in pain. As one of the other posters said more tha...

4. eICU

   Shawn417 replied to delphine22's topic in MICU

   EICU is awesome, well at least the one that I work with happens to be. It was a little strange to get used to the camera thing when you are in the patient's room. I love being able to hit the EICU button and have someone right there immediately.