Super RT

Super RT

PICU, NICU, Adult care as RT

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  1. Traumatic injury of a child

    Super RT posted a topic in PICU, Pediatric

    Just had a horrible day at work and needed to get something off my chest......... We had a terribly abused little kid that came into out ER today. I wont go into any details, but to say that she will...

  2. Traumatic injury of a child

    Super RT replied to Super RT's topic in PICU, Pediatric

    I worked for about 8 years in a PICU and finally left about 2 years ago. I have been working in a small community hospital since. The reason I left was due to the large amount of non-accidental head...

  3. Ice for a vented patient???

    Super RT replied to OkieICU_RN's topic in MICU, SICU

    If your patient is soon to be extubated, why not wait the 30 min or so until the tube is out? Use your toothettes until they can protect their airway on their own, since they have the same amount of...

  4. Ice for a vented patient???

    Super RT replied to OkieICU_RN's topic in MICU, SICU

    As an RT, allow me to comment on this topic. I am reading a lot of different arguments from various posters about this, so let me clear up a few things. 1. VAP happens to patients ON the vent (hence...

  5. Things Patients Have Taught Me NOT To Do

    Super RT replied to Trixxy's topic in Nursing Humor

    Don't smoke 4 packs of cigs a day for 35 years and then get mad at us when the doc suggests that lump on you chest xray is probably cancer. Do not then threaten to sue us because we can't fix it....

  6. Coping c child abuse

    Super RT replied to Elvish's topic in PICU, Pediatric

    Working in 2 major Trauma centers, I have seen way too many beaten up kids! It seems to be worse at the first of the year and half way through summer break. I just think there are some parents who...

  7. How to deal with death of toddler death on picu..

    Super RT replied to nd deb's topic in PICU, Pediatric

    I'm so very sorry to hear about your loss. I think the way I get through it is that while at work, I try not to linger in the room after the crisis and let the parents mourn. I go for a walk or try to...

  8. Arterial sticks protocols

    Super RT replied to cajrio's topic in PICU, Pediatric

    At our hospital, only RT's are allowed to perform art sticks. Even if there is just an order for art sticks for labs or blood

  9. Knocking on isolette

    Super RT posted a topic in NICU, Neonatal

    I recently witnessed a nurse knocking on the outside of an isolette when a baby was having an apnea/brady spell. She did this multiple times durring the shift. This was a very small preemie. Wouldn't...

  10. Knocking on isolette

    Super RT replied to Super RT's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    That was my thought! They always tell you not to tap on the glass of a fish tank bacause it stresses the fish. I would imagine that the baby was even more stressed than the fish would be! The problem...

  11. Do you get sick more often in peds?

    Super RT replied to ER1010's topic in Pediatric

    I work exclusively in Peds and spend the winter every year coughing and sneezing. I get sick every year! If being a pediatric nurse is what you want to do, the colds are just a small downside. In...

  12. older children in picu

    Super RT replied to luckybear104's topic in PICU, Pediatric

    I think it depends on the nature of the patient and their problem. We had a 27 year old once, but he was severely delayed and still saw a pediatrician. I think that the patients that have been in and...

  13. Toddler using spacer

    Super RT replied to canuckeh!'s topic in Pediatric

    We have seen a huge increase in MDI/spacer use in our hospital recently. If she is relatively well and not in acute distress, she should do just fine with the spacer. We recommend the patient take 6...

  14. Name that part. Words patients use for their own anatomy.

    Super RT replied to JEHORAPHA's topic in General Nursing

    We have always tried to teach our children to call body parts by their proper names. You wouldn't call your arm a ding-dong, right? So when my son was very small, 3ish, when we gave him a bath we...

  15. Respiratory Therapist VS Nursing

    Super RT replied to airis's topic in Nursing Career

    I also hope to clear up something. RN's don't always get the "easiest" patients and the RT's don't always get the hardest patients. As an RT, I sometimes get the less sick patients in my assignment,...

  16. NIMV and trauma

    Super RT posted a topic in NICU, Neonatal

    We have seen an increased use of NIMV in our unit and I just worry about the physiologic trauma associated with slamming pressure into the vocal cords like that. I worry about swelling and malcias in...

  17. NIMV and trauma

    Super RT replied to Super RT's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    Usually starts with low settings, but I've seen the pressures get up pretty high. We also have seen a higher rate of NEC. I imagine the increased amount of air/pressure in the gut could lead to this....

  18. can nurses intubate?

    Super RT replied to mommy2BCD's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    I work in a teaching hospital where we get the sick babies (ECMO, MAS, etc) The nurses just don't have the time or the expertise to ru the vent along with all the meds, weighings, baths, feedings,...

  19. ECMO

    Super RT replied to 3230's topic in PICU, Pediatric

    We actually had a baby cannulated twice due to Diaphragmatic hernia that went home. The baby had a g-tube, but from what I understand, the baby is doing

  20. Respiratory Therapist VS Nursing

    Super RT replied to airis's topic in Nursing Career

    It depends on where you work. Yes I get exposed to some really scary stuff, but I'm at less risk for a needle stick. Depends on what scares you more: inhaled disease, or stuck with scarey needle. I...

  21. You might be in the medical field if....

    Super RT replied to bethin's topic in Nursing Humor

    I can relate to all of

  22. Respiratory Therapist VS Nursing

    Super RT replied to airis's topic in Nursing Career

    As a Respiratory Therapist, I'm a little biased, but let me put in my 2 cents on this. I work in a major trauma center with a high level NICU. All of my experiance in at that hospital mostly in the...

  23. You might be in the medical field if....

    Super RT replied to bethin's topic in Nursing Humor

    You find yourself trimming the flower bed with surgical scissors. You can't find any gardening clippers, but you do happen to have 48 pairs of surgical

  24. Poll: Male Nurses in the OB? Ok or No Way???

    Super RT replied to KrisRNwannabe's topic in General Nursing

    Good

  25. Poll: Male Nurses in the OB? Ok or No Way???

    Super RT replied to KrisRNwannabe's topic in General Nursing

    I'm more of yes and no. I think that it doesn't matter who is present for a delivery as long as they are a good nurse, but I think that the patient should have an option. My first delivery, I was not...