icuRNallie

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1. What do you make sure to put in your travel contract?

   icuRNallie replied to icuRNallie's topic in Travel

   Ahh I did not realize that. Does it make a difference regardless?

2. What do you make sure to put in your travel contract?

   icuRNallie posted a topic in Travel

   I'll be accepting my first travel assignment with Stanford University Hospital in Palo Alto, CA. I'm working with a subcontractor of American Mobile known as Onward Healthcare. What do you MAKE SURE to put in your contract when doing travel nursing?...

3. How long can you have the cardene gtt for?

   icuRNallie replied to Enthused RN's topic in Neuro

   Patients can certainly be on it for longer than 24hrs. If you have a pt with a subarach or a post-IR coil or clipping or something similar and they HAVE to have strict blood pressure control, it is much more important that their blood pressure is con...

4. Starting med-surg first hospital job!

   icuRNallie replied to RN_SummerSeas's topic in Med-Surg

   Congrats on the offer! Very exciting. I always thought home-health nursing would be one of the more difficult areas to go into. Putting symptoms together to form a big picture can be difficult and easy to miss. Having that experience will really help...

5. New Nurse!

   icuRNallie replied to NRSElovesOB's topic in Med-Surg

   Make sure you ask questions. Other nurses will typically not trust you if you aren't asking questions. There are many things you can't possibly know till you start working and other nurses understand that. Most nurses love to help! Find a few nurses ...

6. Glucose and corrected sodium

   icuRNallie posted a topic in Neuro

   I'm trying to understand the relationship of hyperglycemia and sodium. I had a patient with blood sugars q4 with nothing below 280...typically in the 300s. I drew his sodium (on a 3% drip) and came back 156. That made his corrected sodium about 159. ...