crazybusyRN

crazybusyRN has 6 years experience and specializes in NICU, peds CICU.

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1. Should I continue with nursing? On challenge, the perception of nurses, etc.

   crazybusyRN replied to runner28's topic in General Students

   Fair warning... Saying that you want to "get through" your Master's as quickly as possible, with little to no bedside experience, is going to get some heat from quite a few NPs/NP students, on these forums and elsewhere. I tend to lurk a lot around ...

2. NICU to another specialty

   crazybusyRN replied to KT17's topic in NICU

   NICU was my first specialty (for 3 years), but I found that I wanted to "branch out" a bit, so I went to a peds CICU. Because a lot of pediatric heart disease is congenital, it's still a lot of babies, but because adult cardiologists are sometimes wa...

3. Nurse Ethicist?

   crazybusyRN replied to SmartieLaFance's topic in Activism

   Hi there- I guess I would be a nurse ethicist-in-training. I did a Master's in Bioethics concurrently with my MSN (an NP program), which I will finish in August. The ethics degree is done, though. Yes, it was through a medical school. Yes, it was ver...

4. Writing a research paper on nursing specialties...

   crazybusyRN replied to jmontgomery4476's topic in General Nursing

   Hi, not sure if you're even still looking for replies... I don't often comment on here, I just lurk, but I felt bad, I know how it is to be a student. I don't think the nurses here are unwilling to help you- they ARE helping you, by letting you know...

5. Feeling wiped out, overwhelmed, etc.

   crazybusyRN replied to cherokeesummer's topic in New Nurse

   OK, I was thinking about your post, and had to reply. You sound like you could be one of my orientees, so I'll tell you what I tell them... Do you feel that your preceptors think you're too slow because they said something, or because you can't do th...

6. Who runs your ECMO pumps?

   crazybusyRN replied to elizabells's topic in NICU

   CHOP uses both RRTs and RNs, but the RNs are VERY experienced (mostly in one of the CHOP ICUs). I'd say 5 years experience is the average, many have more. They do VV and VA ECMO, and most can be called to any of the 3 ICUs (N/IC, PICU, CICU), so trai...

7. Near Death Experiences?

   crazybusyRN replied to pagandeva2000's topic in LPN/LVN

   Can I still post in this forum as an RN? I hope so, because I think I have a good near death story for you. In the ICU I work in, we had a really nasty code in a teenager who had come in for elective surgery. It was ugly, but we got him back, and bet...

8. Before I became a nurse...

   crazybusyRN replied to arizonanurse's topic in General Nursing

   I never held blowby with one hand and rubbed a 5yo's head with the other because she said "I don't feel good, please don't leave me" (she was intubated within 20 minutes, kids always know when they're in medical trouble). I never knew that a life tha...

9. The "Teach a Student Something-a-Day" thread!

   crazybusyRN replied to agent's topic in General Students

   Dunno if something like this has been said before but here's my "pearl of wisdom": When thinking about pediatric doses, knowing the adult norm can help set off "alarm bells" when a dose is too high. Doesn't get you out of checking and rechecking and...

10. Peds Cardiology/Boston Children's

    crazybusyRN replied to tiggerslj9's topic in Massachusetts

    Hope I'm not getting the thread off topic... I'm not in Boston, but I do work in a peds cardiology ICU (at a major children's hosp). It's a great specialty! And in many places, there are opportunities for new grads. But be aware, the congenital hea...

11. feelings on vaccines?

    crazybusyRN posted a topic in General Nursing

    Hi, everyone- I read this site all the time, and I'm hoping all you smart nurses will have some opinions for me. Had my first class of the semester today in a class on the ethics of vaccination. Sounds like a really interesting course. Well, now I'm ...

12. Where were u 9/11/01?

    crazybusyRN replied to k_cole21's topic in General Nursing

    I was on my second day of orientation at my first real job as an RN- in NYC. We were listening to really boring lectures (in the subbasement of a hospital building, far from the towers) on things like body mechanics, and which things to plug into red...