dbringle

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1. Catn/atls

   dbringle replied to petiteflower's topic in Emergency

   Please dont think that I think its cool to harm animals, The reason they use a pig is because their skin is kinda like ours. I thought the same thing when I first heard it was a live pig.

2. Catn/atls

   dbringle replied to petiteflower's topic in Emergency

   I am also going to take ATLS. What I have heard, ATLS is geared for MD's and Surg's. They do include you in the class, but you can not get a cert. for it. The only thing is to audit the class. You still get the info. and get involved with the ski...

3. Where do you work?

   dbringle replied to LilgirlRN's topic in General Nursing

   Good idea, here's mine: http://www.carolinas.org

4. What or who was your inspiration for becoming a nurse?

   dbringle replied to fedupnurse's topic in General Nursing

   Like many of you, I did not have any family that were nurses. When I was little and would cut my grandmas toe nails, she would call me her little nurse. After high school, I was planning on going into architecture, started at our local comm. colleg...

5. Why you love/hate ER

   dbringle replied to BlueBear's topic in Emergency

   Hi, Lately I know all to well what it is like to be the new guy. I first went to the ER out of nursing school almost three years ago. I had worked in the Fast Track area as a CNA so I knew some of the people but was nervous of the older nurses I d...

6. Professional Pay in the ER

   dbringle replied to Tommydboy's topic in Emergency

   No more pay in the ER here in North Carolina. Start at the same pay, the longer you are there, the more it goes up (very slowly!)Hospital wide. The only time I did get better pay because of the ER was when I did a contract with a nursing agency, al...

7. I was wondering...

   dbringle replied to studentcaroline's topic in Flight

   One thing you could do is contact a local Trauma center and see if they do ride-alongs, this way you could actually ride-along during a shift and really see what flight nursing is all about. I hope you have a trauma center close to you that you will...

8. paramedic nursing

   dbringle replied to mcgill01's topic in Flight

   Hi, in North Carolina, in certain counties an RN can Challenge the EMT-P exam. I am an RN working towards everything I need to fly, I have opted not to challenge the exam so.. I have just started the EMT-P class. The college I am going to has accep...