Drips On A Med Surg Floor

If you hang dobutamine dopamine nitro and cardizem on your floor what is your nurse to patient ratio.

Drips on a med surg floor.

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. These nurses already have 6 7 patients each. Hospitalists at emory aren t the only ones who endorse the protocol.

Navigate by topic area or search to refine. Anyone with hourly fingersticks and insulin drip adjustments should be on a monitored pcu floor no greater than 1 4 nurse patient ratio. Master cardiology with the cardiac nurse crash course from fresh rn. Specializes in or education.

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. They could be challenging particularly if the pt required stat labs in addition to the frequent fingersticks. Content pulls from across all amsn properties including our online library publications member community the hub and podcasts. I worked a med surg unit where we had insulin drips.

I would like to. Specialties med surg posted aug 27 2016. 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 work in a 7 bed icu in a small rual hospital.

Whether you work in the er or icu ccu med surg or a long term care facility you have the ability to make a difference and save a life by paying attention to their needs and delivering the best nursing care possible. 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. Administration wants to place the patients on cardizem drips on the med surg floor with tele.

I work on a med surg tele floor ratios 5 1 days 6 1 nights with 3 cna s if we. Patients on the med surg floor. It s also often the first nursing job and nurse has out of school. 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.

I m on a med surg transplant floor there are multiple drips that we initiate or titrate. Cardiac drips on a med surg floor. Rose queen bsn msn rn. This means knowing how to titrate a cardizem drip.

Management s logic was that a pt. Specializes in certified med surg tele and other stuff.