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Drips on a med surg floor.
This means knowing how to titrate a cardizem drip.
It s also often the first nursing job and nurse has out of school.
If you hang dobutamine dopamine nitro and cardizem on your floor what is your nurse to patient ratio.
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 personal opinion is titrated drips or narcotic drips don t belong on medsurg unless it s a morphine drip on a dnr.
I work in a 7 bed icu in a small rual hospital.
These nurses already have 6 7 patients each.
I work on a med surg tele floor ratios 5 1 days 6 1 nights with 3 cna s if we.
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.
I would like to.
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My hospital is actually fairly strict about what can stay on a med surg floor which is nice.
Anyone with hourly fingersticks and insulin drip adjustments should be on a monitored pcu floor no greater than 1 4 nurse patient ratio.
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Cardiac drips on a med surg floor.
As the largest branch of nursing care med surg nursing has the widest variety of potential patients and diagnoses.
There is a cardiac step down that would amount to the tele floor i d assume.
Didn t need to occupy a monitored bed simply for insulin drips.
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I m on a med surg transplant floor there are multiple drips that we initiate or titrate.
Patients on the med surg floor.
Management s logic was that a pt.
Administration wants to place the patients on cardizem drips on the med surg floor with tele.
We also monitor 20 telemetry units the patients are on a med surg floor that also has peds.
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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.
Hospitalists at emory aren t the only ones who endorse the protocol.
