tutored

tutored specializes in MICU/SICU.

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1. Anyone work at St. Charles Medical Center, Bend?

   tutored posted a topic in Oregon

   Hi everyone, I am an inner-city trauma nurse back in the northeast, and am thinking about relocating to the Bend area....(anyone see "Mercy" on TV :heartbeatlast night? Everything the doc said about NJ is true!)....it seems as if the only hospital i...

2. Tips for getting into ICU as a new grad?

   tutored replied to harborview's topic in MICU

   not at all true...I, and two other nurses I work with, went straight into ICU with ADNs...BSNs, with their extra management courses under their belt, offer no particular advantage to an ICU manager looking to hire (as a new nurse and a first position...

3. Need IV Access/Phelobotomy Classes

   tutored replied to tutored's topic in New Jersey

   I may be wrong, but I remember back in school my final-semeseter instructor explaining to us that we, as students, could never practice starting IVs because in NJ only RNs, or Paramedics, can start IVs...I was incredulous that there would be unfortun...

4. Need IV Access/Phelobotomy Classes

   tutored replied to tutored's topic in New Jersey

   Hi Steve RN: Are you still at NYP? I'd love to work there. I'm in MICU/SICU in NJ. only 1-1/2 years experience, though. Offhand, hard to get into your MICU with this level of experience?

5. Need IV Access/Phelobotomy Classes

   tutored replied to tutored's topic in New Jersey

   I work in NJ. Call, first, hospitals in your area to see if they will open their internal IV access course to outsiders for a fee. (I'm assuming you have your RN license. Only RNs can start IVs in)...nearly all hospitals have IV access courses. If...

6. Giving ProSource to renal failure patients

   tutored replied to detroitdano's topic in MICU

   What about a simple albumin infusion for a short time, even if just to suspend medication in the bloodstream and maintain osmolarity? Did this patient need the calories from the prosource?

7. Tips for getting into ICU as a new grad?

   tutored replied to harborview's topic in MICU

   I went into the ICU for my first nursing job out of school - it took me a half a year to get it, but I didn't want any other specialty....I learned how to make myself more marketable while I was looking - it costs a hospital (at least here in the no...

8. Anyone else studying for CCRN exam?

   tutored replied to deeDawntee's topic in CCU

   I looked up the cost of Xigris through Henry Schein last year - $880.00 per dose.

9. CCRN Test

   tutored replied to luvmylab's topic in MICU

   Me, too....I have to say the sound quality if "ha-a-a-arible", and can get a little annoying, but the material is excellent. I work with an older RN on my unit who worked with Ms Gasparis, said she was not just an incredible nurse, but sort of a "re...

10. New Grad...No job and have no clue what to do

    tutored replied to nurse901's topic in Colorado

    Hi Nurse 901! I should say from the start but I live now in NJ ....but it's not my fault! (lol)...I come from several generations of Colorado families - I'm looking to relocate to Colorado again, and so I'm going to post a question about this righ...

11. What happened to Laura Gasparis Vonfrolio?

    tutored replied to tutored's topic in MICU

    Thank you to you both! :bowingpur:flowersfo

12. What happened to Laura Gasparis Vonfrolio?

    tutored posted a topic in MICU

    Hi fellow ICU RNs! ....I'm a fairly new nurse (2 years) trying to study for the CCRN. I have the AACN book (dry, dry, dry,...), but I keep hearing about these famous DVDs from Ms Gasparis. They are nowhere to be seen on any website, and I've done ...

13. CCRN Test

    tutored replied to luvmylab's topic in MICU

    Hi everyone! I can't believe how difficult it is to get these famous gasparis DVDs for passing the CCRN....I can't find them anywhere. There's no material out there from her except for a ten year-old paperback book on Amazon. Can ANYONE PLEASE tell...

14. Burnout Rx

    tutored replied to ACRN06's topic in General Nursing

    Do you work the day shift, burnout RN, and if so are you on twelve-hour shifts? quote=ACRN06;3532057]I'm tired... I'm so tired. I'm worn out. I've found myself thinking more and more of different jobs I'd like to do if I weren't a nurse. And the thi...

15. 28 year old male thinking about Nursing as a profession

    tutored replied to alabamacrimson's topic in Career Support

    So why are you here? Why continue to talk to us, and why contribute to this forum? Or is it because you want to dissuade, discourage, and make sure as many nurses as possible are unhappy as you? To the original poster, I love my job very much, and ...