Didn t need to occupy a monitored bed simply for insulin drips.
Drips on a med surg floor.
Administration wants to place the patients on cardizem drips on the med surg floor with tele.
I m on a med surg transplant floor there are multiple drips that we initiate or titrate.
I worked a med surg unit where we had insulin drips.
We transfer patients there if they need any iv cardiac meds have an elevated troponin for a true cardiac reason afib with rvr drips other than heparin etc.
Specialties med surg posted aug 27 2016.
My hospital is actually fairly strict about what can stay on a med surg floor which is nice.
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Hospitalists at emory aren t the only ones who endorse the protocol.
Patients on the med surg floor.
I would like to.
There is a cardiac step down that would amount to the tele floor i d assume.
Management s logic was that a pt.
It s also often the first nursing job and nurse has out of school.
These nurses already have 6 7 patients each.
Anyone with hourly fingersticks and insulin drip adjustments should be on a monitored pcu floor no greater than 1 4 nurse patient ratio.
This means knowing how to titrate a cardizem drip.
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As hospitalists have migrated over the years throughout the hospital taking over management in surgical or subspecialty wards such as orthopedic surgery they ve championed the use of insulin drips for some floor patients now hospital wide.
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If you hang dobutamine dopamine nitro and cardizem on your floor what is your nurse to patient ratio.
Med surg nursing requires attention to detail excellent multi tasking skills and a level head under pressure.
I work on a med surg tele floor ratios 5 1 days 6 1 nights with 3 cna s if we.
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I work in a 7 bed icu in a small rual hospital.
We do insulin heparin argatroban bivilarudin diltiazem amiodarone lasix bumex lidocaine for pain mgmt epidurals for pain mgmt morphine dilaudid primarily for comfort measures patients.
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As the largest branch of nursing care med surg nursing has the widest variety of potential patients and diagnoses.
They could be challenging particularly if the pt required stat labs in addition to the frequent fingersticks.
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