HollymedicRN

HollymedicRN

cardiac, PACU, some CVICU

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About HollymedicRN

HollymedicRN has 3 years experience and specializes in cardiac, PACU, some CVICU.


33 y/o married former paramedic with one teenager. Work in Central FL Level 2 trauma center PACU. Love nursing!!

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  1. What's the worse thing you have seen?

    Some of you ladies need to lighten up. For crying out loud, it's just a story on a message board. It's not like you're selling a story to the national enquirer.
  2. You might be a PACU nurse if...

    We have a newer CRNA (new to the hospital, I guess, not to CRNA) that puts nasal airways in the mouth. WTH?!
  3. Nubain Problems in chronic pain pts

    Yeah, in my PACU we don't use it either, but up on the floor when I was pulling lines it was routinely ordered by the cardiologists. I don't know what their rationale was, but I was VERY careful when I used it.
  4. Milking those chest tube: I need your opinion

    Research says you should avoid milking or stripping chest tubes. It's "old school" nursing, a bad habit, and one that needs to be phased out. Use the evidence based practice. http://ccn.aacnjournals.org/cgi/content/full/22/4/70 http://www.medscape.co...
  5. Reality of Travel Nursing?

    Thanks for all the great info, I'm considering traveling as well after my 2 year contract with my current hospital is up. Can you give me some insight as to how the staff nurses treat travelers? I'm worried they get treated badly sometimes because th...
  6. Nubain Problems in chronic pain pts

    Yeah, it's only a couple docs that order it, most of them order Morphine. I've become so wary of Nubain during line pulls that I would rather use nothing at all. Which most patients really do fine with. The one time I gave it and was about to pull, w...
  7. Nubain Problems in chronic pain pts

    Nobody has come across this at all? Huh.
  8. Nubain Problems in chronic pain pts

    Hey there! I work in an interventional Cardiac unit where we regularly pull arterial lines post caths, and Nubain is frequently ordered for the line pull. However, I've had a couple of bad experiences with Nubain in pts that have been on a pain med a...
  9. I PASSED my NCLEX-RN !!

    Good luck!! I'll be sending positive vibes your way!
  10. I PASSED my NCLEX-RN !!

    My tips are: don't kill yourself cramming for the NCLEX. You already KNOW this stuff! You can do some light content review, on your weak points (mine were meds and OB) and then just make sure you know that Kaplan strategy backwards and forwards. 1. ...
  11. I PASSED my NCLEX-RN !!

    Just the book, I was told you should only do the Kaplan if you failed the first time. It's expensive. However, each person has their own way of studying, so who knows, maybe taking the review would really help, even the first time around.
  12. I PASSED my NCLEX-RN !!

    Thank you so much guys, the support on this forum is enormous, and I'm so glad I found you. :thankya:
  13. Question for those who pass the Nclex

    I didn't work as a new grad, but I actively worked as a paramedic, which, in my opinion, made it much harder for me. One of my paramedic friends who passed RN last year said they would "beat the medic out of me" by the end of the program. It was a di...
  14. I PASSED my NCLEX-RN !!

    You guys have been so much help to me, I had to post a thread. I took the test Tuesday, it took me about an hour and shut off at 75. I found out today (through the health provider look up screen for Florida) that I passed! I was so excited I screamed...
  15. Failed 3 times!!

    Good luck! :icon_hug: