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Is working in the ICU all it's cracked up to be? Part of me has always wanted to work there--I won't really feel like I've "made it" as a nurse until I can take care of the sickest patients. I'm thinking about making the switch to my hospital's MICU....
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I was a home health nurse for 1 year. I have been a LTACH nurse for 1 year. My LTACH has a ratio 1-5.
At my LTACH, there are tons of tasks per 5 patients like wound care, mobility x2( out of bed), q2hour turns, record breakfast,lunch Dinner,...
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Whether you're a new nurse looking to land your first job out of nursing school, a seasoned nurse making the transition to the ICU, or moving to a new ICU environment, the following list of questions can help you prepare! From knowing what to expect ...
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Hi Nurse Beth,
I am a nurse of 7 years currently working in informatics and outpatient GI. Most of my RN experience is in outpatient. I was a new grad on an acute care unit, but I failed out of the new grad program (3 month program), so I mov...
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Hi, I am a new grad nurse in ICU. It is a small hospital with only 10 beds I guess, I love the nurses there. It is feels like family and everyone is so helpful. But it is not high acuity, most of our patients are med- surg or step-down. The pati...
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I know on one hand , I could save the most money per diem for CRNA school vs I’m missing out the time to gain ICU experience . Appreciate any input ? Hello ?? everyone !! Here’s my stats.. RN 9+ years ms/tele/pcu. Debating to continue per diem vs. I...
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"Very cool," I thought to myself. "Someone with American Indian bloodline." Mrs. B. was intubated because of a stroke. She was one of two patients who was assigned to me for the weekend in our ICU. The unit was full and, not surprisingly, it was busy...
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Hospitalized patients often experience pain. In the ICU, most patient experience pain to some degree. As more invasive and painful procedures are performed, pain escalates. Add in intubation, multiple lines and your patient experience a wide variety ...
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I work in a cardiac intensive care unit; CCU and SICU together. As an ICU nurse, I'm well acquainted with the correlation between untreated sleep apnea and heart disease, stroke or sudden death. And I wish I had a dollar for every patient with "obstr...
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Monitoring the hemodynamics of your critically ill ICU is so important. Use of the Swan-Ganz pulmonary artery catheter is one of the ways to quickly assess the cardiac status of your patient, make interventions and improve their care. However, the mo...
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What is a Step-Down Unit (SDU)?
SDUs fill a gap between ICU and the MedSurg/Tele units by providing a:
lower level of care than resource-intensive ICUs and a
higher level of care than MedSurge/Tele units
SDUs provide care to stab...
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Everyone copes with things differently, but often times I write to help me cope with the difficult woes of my job. I often don't share, but this time I thought, why not let some of you guys have some insight into the life of an ICU nurse? If it wasn'...
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One of my old buddies from high school just got her LVN and told me she got hired by some travel agency to work at nursing homes & other psych places. The interesting part is that she is nearly making 3x as much as me as a new graduate LVN......a...
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When John showed up in the unit, he was non-communicative and usually in 4-way restraints as he would usually be doing a motion, we had coined as the crab. He would be on his back, moving each of his four extremities independently of each other, the ...
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The American Association of Critical Care Nurses recently published a study regarding the noise level in an ICU and ways to decrease patient and staff noise stimulation. Noise stress is a concern for both patients and staff. "In one study, it was fou...
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So I am working back in psych where I have a state pension (not 401k, 403b, etc), but I just left neuro ICU where I worked for 3 years. So my question to all of you is how long can a nurse be out of the ICU and working in psych before the nurse is s...
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You get a report on your two patients (rushing through the assessment as quickly as possible) and just as you go into the empty room assigned to your third patient, the phone rings and it's for you. You put the phone down after the report and look up...
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Hello, I recently graduated and my goal at the moment is to land a job in the ICU. I have two job offers both from a nurse residency program. One being surgical PCU or Med-Surg. But if I accept the surgical PCU position I have a 2-year commitment and...
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I have been an ICU nurse for about a year now. I have learned a million and one things and still have a lot left to learn. I just wanted to offer a little help to new grads trying to get into the critical care scene and newly hired nurses in the ICU....
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It's January, and the December graduates from nursing school will be taking their NCLEX exams, looking for jobs and starting those jobs (if they're lucky enough to get them!) in the next few months. That means that the ICU is going to have another hu...
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Do graduate schools accept experience from PCU?
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Hey, guys! I have an interview coming up next week for an ICU. I’ve got over 10 years experience in critical care, but I’ve been away from it for 7 years now due to I went to drug rehab and I live in a big city where the job market is very competitiv...
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It is a fact that many people will either personally experience a critical illness or be impacted by a critical illness by a friend or family member (Gavaghan & Carroll, 2002). The concept of family-centered care and open visiting hours in the in...
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A brand new ICU patient, whether they are crashing with cardiogenic shock, fresh from the ER in septic shock or just back from the OR, is a busy patient. There are assessments to be done, labs to be drawn and body cavities to be accessed . . . IV, NG...
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I am just trying to hold myself together, often I am in pieces, and I feel like I am scrambling to keep everything in one piece. Is this what life is like? That was a question I asked myself last Thursday night, it was the second night that I had thi...
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