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Drips on a med surg floor.
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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.
Specializes in or education.
My personal opinion is titrated drips or narcotic drips don t belong on medsurg unless it s a morphine drip on a dnr.
Med surg nursing requires attention to detail excellent multi tasking skills and a level head under pressure.
I work in a 7 bed icu in a small rual hospital.
This means knowing how to titrate a cardizem drip.
Anyone with hourly fingersticks and insulin drip adjustments should be on a monitored pcu floor no greater than 1 4 nurse patient ratio.
Hospitalists at emory aren t the only ones who endorse the protocol.
Administration wants to place the patients on cardizem drips on the med surg floor with tele.
I would like to.
Master cardiology with the cardiac nurse crash course from fresh rn.
If you hang dobutamine dopamine nitro and cardizem on your floor what is your nurse to patient ratio.
These nurses already have 6 7 patients each.
Cardiac drips on a med surg floor.
It s also often the first nursing job and nurse has out of school.
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.
They could be challenging particularly if the pt required stat labs in addition to the frequent fingersticks.
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.
My hospital is actually fairly strict about what can stay on a med surg floor which is nice.
I work on a med surg tele floor ratios 5 1 days 6 1 nights with 3 cna s if we.
I m on a med surg transplant floor there are multiple drips that we initiate or titrate.
Specialties med surg posted aug 27 2016.
I worked a med surg unit where we had insulin drips.
Management s logic was that a pt.
Didn t need to occupy a monitored bed simply for insulin drips.
There is a cardiac step down that would amount to the tele floor i d assume.
Rose queen bsn msn rn.
Specializes in certified med surg tele and other stuff.
Patients on the med surg floor.
