One week until the official baby due date. Tomorrow I have my re-certification ACLS class (my current card expires when I will be out on maternity leave), and I was hoping baby would hang in there until at least after the class. Looks like that will happen...SO, anyway....
Still waiting on the house. There isn't much that has happened these past couple of weeks. Inspection yielded one thing that needs attention (though not a problem, it is imperative to the mortgage company that this "thing" be taken care of). Well, Brian and I are not going to fix it unless we are sure the seller's bank approves of our offer. We are getting the title figured out....Oh, and the seller's bank is reviewing everything now....
So basically, we are "on time." We are just hoping everything goes smoothly.
I am feeling blah. To sit through ACLS tomorrow is probably going to be torture. I mean, we have codes on the floor every now and then, and the last code I was the second person in the room so I played a part in bagging the patient, but once you call a code, a million people run into the room from all over the hospital - including an ICU nurse and an intensivist. All this means is that the ICU nurse is the one who typically gives meds like vasopressin and epinepherine....and the doctor is the one calling the shots...
I mean, I work on a PCU floor, so I am allowed to give whatever medications are needed, but it is standard procedure for the ICU nurse to take over those type of duties when he or she arrives to the floor.
What does this mean for me? Well, it basically means that I need to know how to run a code so I know what to expect, and ACLS certification is all about knowing what is needed and involved in intubating, giving what drugs for what symptoms and how much, recognizing EKG rhythms (I have to read rhythms every time I am at work anyway, so this is standard practice for me)...BUT, since we don't have codes every day, I am not GIVING medications like epinepherine and amiodarone (pushes anyway), I don't remember all the algorhythms...I took the pretest and only got a 78%...At times we've given adenosine on my unit, but really? We don't PRACTICE this everyday, or often enough...So I am just a little nervous for this class tomorrow. It's only a review, so it is only 8 hours, but that 8 hours includes being tested on our BLS and working with AED devices (i'm cool with the BLS and AED), running a mock code situation, and going through patient algorhythms and EKG interpretation and treatment for lethal rhythms.
*sigh*
I'll be happy when it's over. Then I can concentrate on work, impending labor, new house stuff and family....*sigh*
Sure, it's not so bad in practice, but tests are terrifying to me.
Still waiting on the house. There isn't much that has happened these past couple of weeks. Inspection yielded one thing that needs attention (though not a problem, it is imperative to the mortgage company that this "thing" be taken care of). Well, Brian and I are not going to fix it unless we are sure the seller's bank approves of our offer. We are getting the title figured out....Oh, and the seller's bank is reviewing everything now....
So basically, we are "on time." We are just hoping everything goes smoothly.
I am feeling blah. To sit through ACLS tomorrow is probably going to be torture. I mean, we have codes on the floor every now and then, and the last code I was the second person in the room so I played a part in bagging the patient, but once you call a code, a million people run into the room from all over the hospital - including an ICU nurse and an intensivist. All this means is that the ICU nurse is the one who typically gives meds like vasopressin and epinepherine....and the doctor is the one calling the shots...
I mean, I work on a PCU floor, so I am allowed to give whatever medications are needed, but it is standard procedure for the ICU nurse to take over those type of duties when he or she arrives to the floor.
What does this mean for me? Well, it basically means that I need to know how to run a code so I know what to expect, and ACLS certification is all about knowing what is needed and involved in intubating, giving what drugs for what symptoms and how much, recognizing EKG rhythms (I have to read rhythms every time I am at work anyway, so this is standard practice for me)...BUT, since we don't have codes every day, I am not GIVING medications like epinepherine and amiodarone (pushes anyway), I don't remember all the algorhythms...I took the pretest and only got a 78%...At times we've given adenosine on my unit, but really? We don't PRACTICE this everyday, or often enough...So I am just a little nervous for this class tomorrow. It's only a review, so it is only 8 hours, but that 8 hours includes being tested on our BLS and working with AED devices (i'm cool with the BLS and AED), running a mock code situation, and going through patient algorhythms and EKG interpretation and treatment for lethal rhythms.
*sigh*
I'll be happy when it's over. Then I can concentrate on work, impending labor, new house stuff and family....*sigh*
Sure, it's not so bad in practice, but tests are terrifying to me.
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