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azrn22

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  1. ICU - Should I stay or go?

    1 in 14 posts imply that this situation is caused by YOU! What CRAP! Follow your heart and listen to the majority of your peers, make something happen. Make those in your unit see and realize how unfair this training is to you and the unit, or fin...
  2. Back from the nclex

    Just study the NCLEX RN book in the front...it tells you how to read the questions to know what they really want. I studied that the day before and passed with 98 questions. I am a BIG procrastinator. Also, KNOW KNOW KNOW Maslow's heirarchy of needs...
  3. General Advice Guestion! HELP PLS!

    I don't think the pre-A&P class would be a waste. A&P is very demanding!!!!! Medical terminology was a TREMENDOUS asset to my education, and I strongly encourage you to take it. The nutrition class is 3 1/2 hr long because you will meet only...
  4. Shift Report

    {I'm confused. Why are you upset about my post? I work well with others, (nurses, NAs, NTs, secretaries, etc) and I complete my work. Is there something wrong with that?} Nothing wrong with that. I must have mis-interpreted your previous post....it w...
  5. Open Heart ICU

    Well put!
  6. Open Heart ICU

    I was a new grad hired into CVICU. Had to go through a 13 week critical care class that made nursing school look like third grade.
  7. ? for CVICU Nurses!

    We use morphine also. Usually 2mg-8mg depending on Doc. Most are extubated within 4-8 hrs postop and in a chair2-6 hrs post extubation. When they are extubated we give percocet x2 and lose dose morphine for breakthrough pain. We have a 15 bed CVICU ...
  8. Shift Report

    what is it you are really trying to say here???? remember that nursing is about caring for others and that includes fellow nurses. there is no "i" in team.
  9. This whole nursing care plan deal

    Try giving your goal a real measurealbe goal. A 93yr old with dementia is probably NOT going to be able to verbalize how to use the lap buddy or call light 50% of the time, let alone the rationale behind using them. Change your goal to something lik...
  10. not used to feeling dumb

    Hang in there. I, too, was in another career in management. I have the same troubles you are having. I am disorganized and stay late, but I am giving great care to my patients. Don't sweat the little things. A winner never quits and a quitter never ...
  11. Shift Report

    WONDERFUL!!! Great insight on life in general, and you are very gifted in expressing yourself. This helped me tremendously. thank you Miranda!!! Jim
  12. Hateful Coworkers

    Hello Tam74, I am having the same problem, although it is better now after 14 months. There are still a few hateful people. I can't figure it out. The big problem remaining now is the anal-obsessive compulsive rn's. One in particular, they call the...
  13. Strippers in the ICU!

    We don't strip ct's unless doctor says it's ok. One shouldn't strip as the location of the ct is unknown. I wouldn't want to suck a graft out.
  14. Telemetry Monitoring

    I work on a 15 bed CVICU with 2 pct's (cna's with tele certs) a ward clerk with tele cert. and our charge takes the same amount of pt's as the rest of the staff, unless census allows her to take 1pt. We take 2 pt's at most. We have 4 groups of rooms...
  15. Potassium Dilemma

    Lowest I've seen is 1.5. That pt received a lot of kcl but not over safe protocol. The pt lived.