Nursing Considerations for 3 Neuro ICU Meds

I worked in a neurocritical care unit for 4.5 years. I was a charge nurse and preceptor. I recorded this video to give those of you floating to neuro or new to the area some of the most frequently administered meds. I completed this video as part of a video series where I tried a different craft beer as I chatted about nurse-related entitled, Perfecting Your Craft!
If you want more detailed instruction on the care of acute care neuro patients, check out Neuro Wise: A Crash Course for New Neuro Nurses: freshrn.teacha...
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[@choekyideshar4687]

i have been working in neuro ICU for the last 6+ years and must say your video is great. very informative .

[@brittneylovell154]

I'm about to start on a Neuro ICU after being in Neuro step down for a year, and your videos have been a life saver!!

[@jamiejunot]

Been a Neuro ICU nurse for 2 years now and you literally clarified so many things for me in such a simple way! Thank you thank you thank you! You ROCK!

[@freshrn]

I'm so glad!!!!

[@beegee14]

your videos could not have come at a better time! Thank you so much!

[@freshrn]

So glad!!

[@saltybrittt]

thank you so much for explaining everything so clearly! i've always wanted to know why quickly increasing sodium was so dangerous!

[@InvisibleVicky]

I was diagnosed with LOVA hydrocephalus last year. In April I had an ETV. I ended up with life threatening post op complications with acute kidney injury stage 2 and cerebral salt wasting syndrome with salt level at 103. I was in HDU

[@ludayasinsky2405]

Your videos are so so helpful and straight to the point! Thank You!!

[@freshrn]

So glad!

[@maryem8263]

Oh! That does sound good. The beer. You speak fine. You do you!

[@ellajones5930]

Thanks for the helpful info...

[@OLMmedic]

Good stuff !!!!

[@amberj5396]

how do you flush the propofol without 'bolus'-ing the patient with propofol

[@freshrn]

That's unavoidable, unfortunately. You've got to flush regularly or the tubing will likely clog (especially if it's at a lower rate) because of the high fat content of Propofol. However, it's a small amount that's in the tubing that you would be flushing. You can minimize this by flushing in the port closest to the patient. Or, if it's appropriate, at that time you can disconnect the tubing entirely and flush at the lumen. But you wouldn't want to disconnect your tubing every time you flush just to avoid this, as you're opening up a closed system and increasing the risk for infection. So, minimizing the amount of times you disconnect and reconnect your IV tubing is important.

[@phillyb4588]

what comments ?? where in appropriate

[@terryfroehner]

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