I am currently a pediatric ICU RN. My passion is cardiothoracic critical care. I want to get my NP and become a part of the intensivist team. Because my goal is so focused, I am debating whether to do pediatrics or adults. Ideally I would do both, bu...
I too have a post grad depression going on... but I had a job lined up 6 months before graduation! I think for me it was multifactorial: 1 Being done with school and now an "adult". School is all Ive ever known 2 New responsibility and a new career 3...
Tay, Would you be willing to relocate? UCLA has a great new grad program, that hires groups (of about 15 or so per unit) of new grads twice a year (August and February).
Hi All, I am a new RN working in an ICU and one of my long term goals is to become a NP of Cardiology (I know that UCLA has several NPs on the Cardiothoracic team). I am looking at UCLA to get my NP... has anyone gone through the program recently? Al...
From what I understand now, pushing Dilantin doesnt require a filter because it precipitates in NS if it is piggybacked into it. Im not sure how fast it precipitates or how much NS it takes to cause it to precipitate... When I gave IV dilantin (witho...
On my own in the ICU for about 6 shifts and lets see: 1. Infusing phenytoin without a filter (but I did use a filter needle to draw it up) Infused fine. Figured this out later on. 2. Infusing an electrolyte into a piggyback setup that wasnt connecte...
Once I figured out that it was leaking, it was still infusing. So I stopped it, switched the correct line to the patient and continued the infusion. I let the next shift RN know that a portion had leaked on the bed, and that a redraw of labs would be...
I work in an ICU and have been off my 10 week preceptorship for about a week. When I have one patient, things usually go really well. But when I have two... I feel like an idiot. Last time I worked I had two stable (but very busy) patients. I am on n...
Just wondering.... Is ECMO done strictly in CVICU/pedsCVICU or can it be done in PICU? I am a PICU new grad RN who is absolutely fascinated by ECMO and hope that I will get to see it in action, and learn to take care of kids on it. I know it all depe...
It took about 4 weeks to process the paperwork and issue temp licence. However when I recieved it in the mail, it expires in over a year instead of the 6 months a temp license did. So I checked online, and I guess what I have now is my permanent (i v...
I am going to be starting in a week or so, and I know I will have to do some bedside assessments before I start patient care with my preceptor. So going through my notes from peds.... I just wanted to make sure I am not leaving anything out. Heres wh...