Starting Out A New RN In the MICU.docVIP

Starting Out: A New RN In the MICU 5/1/04 What kinds of patients come into the MICU? How do families interact with the MICU staff? Who are the nursing staff in the MICU? 3-1- Who are the resource nurses? 3-2- Who is the nurse manager of the MICU? 3-3- Who is the Clinical Nurse Specialist? 3-4- How are the assignments made? 3-5- Who are the CCTs? 3-6- Who are the OAs? 3-7- Who are the USAs? Who are the doctors in the MICU? 4-1- How are the physican teams organized? What does Respiratory Therapy do in the MICU? Who are the other staff in the unit? What are the routines that we use in the MICU? 7-1- How do I manage my time during my shift? 7-2- How do I use the flow sheet to organize my time? 7-3- How should I give report? What do I need to know about the monitors? 8-1- Should I believe everything the monitors tell me? 8-2- What can the monitor do? 8-3- How does the information get from the patient into the monitor? 8-4- How should I react to the alarms? What are the different pumps used for in the unit? 9-1- What are microinfusion pumps? What are all the lines going into these patients? 10-1- How does the line connect the patient to the monitor? 10-2- What are the inflated white bags for, that hang on the poles in the rooms? 10-3- Why do they use that stiff tubing for the transducers? 10-4- What should I worry about when using these lines? 10-5- How should I organize the lines? What kinds of labs do we send on the ICU patients? 11-1- What do I do with the results? What is the procedure for admitting a patient to the ICU? 12-1- Admitting from the OR? 12-2- What are “boarders”? What do I need to know about giving meds in the ICU? 13-1- What are pressors? 13-2- What other drips do we use? 13-3- How do I make sure that I’m doing all this correctly? What are some of the tests that the patients may have done here in the unit itself? What tests do patients travel out of the unit for? 15-1- How do I