Our post cardiac surgery floor is soon to get patients still on insulin drips from CVICU. We usually have a 5 or 6:1 ratio with 2 or 3 techs for 30 patients. Although we do titrate some drips, the...
jackieRN03 replied to jackieRN03's topic in Cardiac
Hi Allele Thanks for the info. You ratios are better than ours. If we had a 3:1 ratio an insulin gtt would be a piece of cake. What part of the country are you in? My biggest problem with this whole...
jackieRN03 replied to jackieRN03's topic in Cardiac
Turquoise, your situation sounds very bad. Check with your state board of nursing. Basically you have 2 RN's taking care of WAAAY too many dangerously sick people. Your nurse manager, DON and...
jackieRN03 replied to jackieRN03's topic in Cardiac
We will have to take 2 pts with insulin drips and 2 more. The attitude of management is terrible. They are going into this with a "no stopping it" attitude...I think they realize its too much already....
jackieRN03 replied to jackieRN03's topic in Cardiac
We are constantly running on our floor. Its hard to find time to tinkle sometimes. Suzanne, the source of the article says it all...Critical Care medicine. Surgical telemetry gets all sorts of...
I'm glad to see you have gone to your manager about this. I'm a little concerned about your posting of such an account on a public web site like this. I have not been participating in allnurses for...