hopebewild

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1. Adult care RN to Peds NP?

   hopebewild replied to wildnursebrendan's topic in Advanced

   When you are done with school, just work in an all ages ICU. I work in one. PM me if you want more info.

2. Doctors Without Borders Physician Tests Possitive for Ebola In New York City

   hopebewild replied to herring_RN's topic in COVID

   Do the healthcare workers in Africa that get sick, get interrogated about the breach in protocol that "obviously happened" (quote by cdc in cnn article on Pham) by either the CDC or WHO?

3. 2nd health care worker gets Ebola at TX Hosp

   hopebewild replied to RN2B123's topic in COVID

   This is turning out to be a big "he said she said" fiasco.

4. 2nd Ebola Healthcare Worker visited Akron/Cleveland after Exposure

   hopebewild replied to Roman1's topic in COVID

   According to CNN she was told to not travel commercially. And she flew back with a temp of 99.5. I am hoping these allegations are not true otherwise a full planeful of people are now at risk.

5. How has Obamacare affected you and your employer?

   hopebewild replied to ProgressiveThinking's topic in Activism

   Im not gonna lie, when it comes to anything involving money, im pretty clueless. However, the argument that came from our ceo when our new health care plans were announced, was that if they did not drop the great coverage we had, by some year in th...

6. How has Obamacare affected you and your employer?

   hopebewild replied to ProgressiveThinking's topic in Activism

   Obamacare's 'Cadillac Tax' Could Help Reduce The Cost Of Health Care - Forbes one summary on it. google it for further information. im all for everybody having access to healthcare but im not for everybody being forced to have equal healthcare unles...

7. How has Obamacare affected you and your employer?

   hopebewild replied to ProgressiveThinking's topic in Activism

   my health insurance through work has decreased in quality (less coverage, higher deductible, and max out of pocket) but the premiums havent gone up too much. This is due to the "cadillac tax" my company would face if they had kept the better plans. ...

8. "Houston we have a problem" This just got very real

   hopebewild replied to Esme12's topic in COVID

   According to cnn, she was following all precautions. So how in the heck did she get it?!

9. Toxic flu H1N1 hospitalizes nurse for months -54 days on ECMO

   hopebewild replied to NRSKarenRN's topic in COVID

   um....... at my hospital we routinely walk our long term waiting for a heart or lung ECMO pt.s and we have had many that were there for MONTHS way more than 58 days lol. the youngest one we have walked on ECMO was four. the expected to be short t...

10. Possible relocation to MN?

    hopebewild replied to itrust's topic in Minnesota

    So mayo is in rochester mn, where the pay is comparable to the cities but the cost of living is better. I say come to rochester. however rochester is very small town like so if you need city life then just focus on the twin cities.

11. New grad starting in CVICU soon! Any pointers?

    hopebewild replied to JessRNBSN's topic in CCU

    I started as a new grad 3.5 years ago in a cardiac icu and I am still there! other people gave great advice so I am just going to say that there will be plenty of times when you think "what the #@$%% am i doing here?!!!" You have to stick it out fo...

12. Minneapolis Starting Salary

    hopebewild replied to usaftrevor87's topic in Minnesota

    she possibly took 44/hr w/ no benefits? or through a travel agency? otherwise i think she is full of it lol

13. How critical is your ICU?

    hopebewild replied to calivianya's topic in MICU

    I love haveing one patient even if they are not very sick. We had a long term lvad waiting status 1a for a heart that was usually singled by default. Lots of hours sitting in the sun, hair makeup and nail sessions 6 walks a day on non dialysis days...

14. Considering ICU/CCu

    hopebewild replied to martymoose's topic in CCU

    Reading ur initial post u sou d a lot like me. I don't like codes and get a little deer in headlights like when stuff goes south fast. I however love and thrive on the so called "sick-stable" patient. Example would be lots of drips with lots of tit...

15. How critical is your ICU?

    hopebewild replied to calivianya's topic in MICU

    I must first say I work in a cardiac surgery only icu but we constantly have sick ones on balloon pumps crrt and ecmo. And to the nurse saying they had 2 patients with one being a balloon pump, what?!!!!!!!! If our patients are intubated they are k...