I have been trying to get a protocol or guideline in place for telemetry to be removed after a patient meets the critieria of no EKG changes within 24 hours,...
The problem we had with the nurse servers that were right outside the patient doors was that only certain meds were kept in there and then others were in the...
We are currently looking at a clinical leader role on our med-surg units. This RN would be responsible for the coordination of care for 12 pts ( 2 RNs and a...
What paging system are you using? We have GE pagers and they are phasing them out. Plus they have too many false alarms and the nurses tend to become...
Does anyone out there have any information or sights that I may re differences in blood pressures differences taken in different arms. legs and the areas where...
From our recent Nurses NewsWire (www.nurses-newswire.com): Many patients, due to their size or other physical limitations, require blood pressure readings to...
My facility is struggling with the documentation of pain reassessment. We know that the nurses are doing the reassessment from looking at the pain scores over...
How many crash carts do you have in your hospital? How many beds and what is your volume of patients? What kind of formula, if any, do you use to determine...
I am looking for a good, easy to understand protocol for VTE prophylaxis and also for anticoagulation therapy in general (to meet the new NPSG). Also, do any...
Our hospital is looking at implementing the hourly rounding concept to decrease falls, increase patient satisfaction, decrease call light use, etc...I'm...
Does anyone have information on clinical ladders. If so, could you tell me the components and how well it has worked in your facility. Debbie Blum RN, CCRN ICU...
One of the institutions I worked in had a clinical ladder that had three branches, clinical, education, and management. After a many years in place it was not...
We have a crash cart on each nursing unit but 2 for ICU and I believe 4 or 5 for ER including one that's a peds cart. There is a cart in the cardiovascular...
This question is for institutions that use Alaris pumps guardrails. Do most of your guardrail drugs have soft stops and hard stops or just soft stops with...
We use certified nursing assistants who go through a basic EKG class and annual competencies for monitor techs. What max # monitors/tech? Currently 48...
We have a crash cart on eah nursing unit (inpt and outpt). The general Med/Surg unit is large so they have 2. ICU has 2. ER has 3 or 4. We also have them...
1 day of General Hospital Orientation. 3-4 days of Nursing Service Orientation which includes general policies/issues, baseline testing, computer training. ...
Thanks--this is correlating with other literature that I have received. Cindy "David W. Woodruff, MSN, RN, CNS, CEN" <dwoodruff@...> wrote: From our...
Hi all. We are a 650 bed facility with three ICU's total of 62 beds. They are Med/Surg/Neuro, Surgical CV and Medical CV. As part of orientation we only orient...
At one institution I worked at the orientation was as follows: 1st week- hospital orientation- nursing orientation (equipment, documentation,etc) 2nd week-...
When we first started with Alaris we had no hard stops. We had some "problems" with PCA and did end up putting hard stops on and I would strongly advise that...
We are a 700 bed facility with 3.5 ICUs (Surgical/Trauma, Medical, CICU, and then a unit that is cardiac "universal" meaning you can have a fresh heart next...
We are currently in the process of building an acuity adaptable model and blending the telemetry floor with the CICU. Both areas have totally different...
Recently our unit practice council saw the article in the April issue of Critical Care Nurse on Implementing the "Cardiac Huddle" and they are very interested...
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