CCU BSN RN

CCU BSN RN has 7 years experience and specializes in CICU, Telemetry.

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1. Feeling incompetent after rapid response

   CCU BSN RN replied to zinaptl's topic in Cardiac

   If you don't work in an ICU, and you don't have more than 3 years of experience.... You did MORE than I would have expected you to be able to do. You identified that longer pauses/lower HR than...

2. Covid-19, No Beds, Ugly Stuff

   CCU BSN RN replied to Ado Annie's topic in Disaster Preparation

   I'm a little concerned about the concept of a hospital that doesn't own a ventilator or Bipap machine, to the point where I'm having trouble getting past being incredulous about that and actually...

3. COVID-19: No PPE!!

   CCU BSN RN replied to BsnBull's topic in Disaster Preparation

   If I actually followed our hospital's 'donning and doffing' guidelines every time I entered a COVID room: 1. We would be out of gowns and gloves 2. My patients would be dead, because their...

4. Stressed out - high potential for error in critical care

   CCU BSN RN replied to questioningnurse's topic in Critical Care

   I've been in ICU about 5 years. I'm still anxious about messing up and killing someone. I'm less anxious about it now that I have some experience under my belt, but you're at a difficult level of...

5. When a Covid 19 vaccine becomes available, will it be absolutely mandatory for healthcare staff?

   CCU BSN RN replied to NewRN'16's topic in Disaster Preparation

   I believe VERY strongly that we'll just be injected walking into work one day. That's probably how we'll find out there is a vaccine, is a surprise needle. And I also think that's the proper choice...

6. Massive Shortage of ICU Trained Nurses During COVID-19 Pandemic: The Need for Cross Training

   CCU BSN RN replied to simba and mufasa's topic in Disaster Preparation

   Things like 'Team Nursing' would work so much better if I'd ever met the members of my 'Team' before I was expected to work on a team with them and appropriately delegate patient care tasks to them...

7. What is a reasonable nurse: patient ratio in ICU?

   CCU BSN RN replied to Kitiger's topic in Disaster Preparation

   Proned patients were always 1:1 before COVID. Paralyzed patients on multiple pressors were always 1:1 before COVID At the beginning of COVID, intubated COVID patients were 1:1 Once we had too many...

8. Will Covid cause huge transfer of wealth out of hands of middle class?

   CCU BSN RN replied to Emergent's topic in Disaster Preparation

   I think the fiscally responsible upper middle class who have 6-12 months of emergency savings, little to no debt...will do alright. Unfortunately 'fiscally responsible' is a rare breed in our country,...

9. Are Big City Hospitals Really Getting Hit With COVID-19 Pts?

   CCU BSN RN replied to EPS's topic in Disaster Preparation

   Nah. They kind of can't stop. They basically have PTSD. Imagine if in 2004 you went on a forum of soldiers online and asked if war in the middle east was real or just a media hoax? Maybe in 10 years...

10. Are Big City Hospitals Really Getting Hit With COVID-19 Pts?

    CCU BSN RN replied to EPS's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Oh, and someone mentioned 'do they have co-morbids?' Yes. We all do. It's called being an American. We lead a sedentary lifestyle, the VAST majority of us are overweight or obese, everyone drinks and...

11. Are Big City Hospitals Really Getting Hit With COVID-19 Pts?

    CCU BSN RN replied to EPS's topic in Disaster Preparation

    ICU nurse in a level 1 trauma center in the north east. We converted 45 of our ICU beds (2 ICUs) to COVID ICUs. They are full of intubated/proned patients with ratios as crappy as 4:1. I've seen more...

12. CRNAs Staffing ICUs?

    CCU BSN RN replied to adventure_rn's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Marie- they run the drips in our ORs but we have different ventilators, monitors, chart in different programs, they don't know where we keep things on the floor, depending on where they've been...

13. Staying in the room with a COVID patient

    CCU BSN RN replied to CityNurse80's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Doug we're legit manually proning them. Mind you last night was the first patient I proned who didn't weigh over 120kg. Proning does seem to be the most helpful thing we've done with the ICU COVIDs to...

14. Masks at the nurse's station

    CCU BSN RN replied to lisa333's topic in MICU, SICU

    Yeah from whenever COVID started until about 4 days ago, management would basically give a verbal warning and then take disciplinary action against staff wearing masks outside of designated areas. I...

15. CRNAs Staffing ICUs?

    CCU BSN RN replied to adventure_rn's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Our CRNAs were basically told they could get laid off or have their hours seriously reduced, or they could come work as ICU RNs for the remainder of the shenanigans. They've mostly chosen not to work...