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Thanks again, everyone for your posts. An update....I got propofol (Diprivan) approved for conscious sedation and vent sedation. Everyone is pleased with the results.

Thanks to all of your for your replies and concerns. I am currently wading thru policies and procedures and trying to update them along with being a full time night ICU nurse. Good ammunition is the one about haloperidol being an anti-psychotic, not a sedative. I am just now trying to teach the nurses how to do Swan line set ups and getting the P&P changed to let IV bags hang more than 24 hours. Haha, most of my job is an uphill battle, but the perks of knowing most everyone and being close to my daughter... well they count the most.

I work in a 28 bed hospital. The OB nurses float to m/s when there is no patient. They can be low censused, but no one is allowed to clock in and just sit. We used to have OB nurses just on call, the charge nurse would check the pt then call the OB nurse when the pat was dialated to 5 or more. Yikes! Not for me, I work ICU. It is nice to have scheduled OB nurses, and yes, they are expected to work the floor. Cross contamination can be prevented with good hand washing and extra scrubs for when they get an expectant mom in.

I am working in small rural hospital that has two new internists. They refuse to use midazolam or lorazepam for sedation and prefer using haloperidol (Haldol). Last week they attempted to intubate with haloperidol rather than the other two. Has anyone any data on use of Haldol for sedation and why they would rather use it?