Do any of you uave a skin care order set or protocol and foley order set you would be willing to share? Thanks Deb Hilliard White Critical Care Educator Palm...
Roberta, What is the patient mix on the vent unit, ratios, etc.... Patty "Basol, Roberta" <basolr@...> wrote: We have three progressive care units -...
Hi Annette, My experience with Sigma pumps were not real positive, we had the same problems as Ann described, we switched over to the Abbot pumps. Holly ...
We use tap water to maintain the integrity of the gut unless there is some surgical reason for using sterile water. We also use the liquid form of the...
The literature suggests tap water, although the volume is quite variable, between 20-100 ml. We use 30 ml every 4 hours in the adult, critical care population,...
We follow the ACC quidelines for monitoring patients on the unit and off. All class I patients have to be monitored and escorted with an RN where ever they...
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Hello, I am in the process of rewriting our Primary PCI order set. Would anyone be willing to share their order sets and/or protocols? Thanks, Anne...
We are using the Picco (CCO) monitoring and i feel this is rather invasive and high risk for infection. I have heard of the LiDCO but have little knowledge....
Currently, the cath lab staff which consists of 3 nurses have been asked to be called in to place PICC lines on the weekend or evening. The point of the nurses...
Hello all, We are still using paper to document patient parameters and thinking of moving on to using different colours to dislplay Temp, HR , BP and Resp and...
Are you in the ED? If so will you give me your private email. Thanks Lisa Koser RN, BSN, CEN, EMT-P Ohio State University Hospitals East Emergency Department...
Nurse to patient ratios are 1:3 with a nursing assistant for up to 8 patients. The MPCU is the only one which takes vent patients, and very few of our...
In 2 of the facilities where I worked we had an IV team from 7am to 11pm, 24/7. They inserted IV's and PICCs. It works very well. Patients requiring...
We are in the process of designing our new ICU tower and thoughts are going back and forth as to having a satelite biomed station in the ICU has any one any...
The radiologist place PICC lines between the hours of 0700 and 1500 here. If a patient needs one after hours or weekends, the attending physician is called and...
Our hospital has an IV team who does all the pics. We staff it 24/7. Marcy Bents ... From: jonidarby Date: 5/1/2007 6:04:43 PM To: NIHMBL@yahoogroups.com ...
We have an IVT team 24-7 coverage and does IV, skin testing, IV access for mediport, catheter repairs and PICC insertion at bedside for adults/pediatrics. 2...
Our hospital has "multispecialists" which is a team of ICU nurses that insert piccs, respond to fast teams, codes, insert difficult IV's as well as transport...
Hello, For critical vaules for EKG, who does the initial interpretation to validate that there is a critical value. We are reviewing our policy and our...
I am an educator on a neuroscience unit. we take care of many patients with lumbar drains. My staff and I have been looking for educational material about...
Our hospital vasoactive drip protocols have been uploaded to the "Files" section of the NIHMBL group if you would like to view them. I hope that they help you....
Dear Lynn, Thanks so much for posting your hospitals vasoactive policy on the site, but for some reason I was unable to open the file. If you don't mind, could...
We have a "home-grown" ICU satisfaction survey. It is given to all pts, or in many cases the family, with a cover letter from our MICU team requesting a...
hello, In our facility, the intial EKG is read by the resident or attending that is taking care of the patient. If there is any question, they get a stat...
... not ... Our cath lab staff were initially the only ones trained to do PICCsand would do them after hours or during the day if their caseload was light. We...
It is individualized to the nurse, but here is the general rule at my facility:' We orient brand new grad nurses for about 12 weeks on the floor. That does...
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