CrazyScrubNurse BSN, RN

ER/ OR/ PACU and now Occupational Health

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About CrazyScrubNurse

CrazyScrubNurse is a BSN, RN and specializes in ER/ OR/ PACU and now Occupational Health.


RN- ER/OR/PACU & 8 years previous experience as a scrub in OR/L&D

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    Wgu bsn start date 11/1/15

    I am!!
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    ER RN salary

    AS AN RN???? If so baby u need to cross your western border and come over here to Texas!!!! The GNs fresh out of school, are starting out at $23- $24 an hour!
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    RN vs. EMS

    Hey all, OK I have just totally worked myself up into a tissy by trying to look for this question on an EMS website.....as an RN...BAD IDEA!! They are so full of themselves that you can't even get the content because they are talking about how they ...
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    OHN Salary.....

    Hey guys, I am getting picked up by the chemical plant that I have been working at for several months through a staffing agency. It is a large worldwide coorporation. I am the only RN here at this site. I do have 3 paramedics and we have a doctor ...
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    Hesi

    I started a "Random Fact Throwing" thread for NCLEX but all of the info is the same for HESI so check out that thread there are so many pages of random fact that were sent in that it was super helpful! I will tell you what I noticed about HESI though...
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    Are Students Protesting HESI??

    Love ya girl...keep your head up!!
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    OR Pet peeves

    Oh my favorite.... House super calls (from the OR desk extension) on a Saturday morning saying that the borrowed instruments for the big ortho case in an hour are here and when you ask if they are ready and sterile you can actually hear her unlatchin...
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    Run get it...scrub tech student!

    I LOVE OR STORY TIME...... OK I have one... We had this ENT who was older than DIRT and would bring his can of diet coke in the OR everyday even though we told him over and over that he could not have it in the OR. He left it in the room between cas...
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    Are Students Protesting HESI??

    OK I took both HESI and NCLEX and our school had the same drama that all of yours are having. Here is what I came up with NCLEX was a freakin JOKE compared to HESI!!!!! I did very well on HESI but most of my class has taken both and agrees, HESI wa...
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    Anyone Up For Random FACT THROWING??

    Just an NCLEX observation.... I don't know about anyone elses test but let me give you a little insight on mine. NOTHING on my test was extremely specific. What I mean is there was no question about what specific level the fractured spine was at. ...
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    Anyone Up For Random FACT THROWING??

    Yeah well I have been an RN for a total of like 18 hours now so I wouldn't consider myself a real authority of any subject. I knew Vitamin K was the antidote, I just never have to use it in my job setting so I was not really clear on trade name. Sorr...
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    Anyone Up For Random FACT THROWING??

    "Antidote for Coumadin- Aquamephyton" OK FYI...Aquamephton is also known as Vitamin K. It kinda freaked me out seeing it and I looked it up in Davis' Drug Guide. I am kinda tired of feeling like a storage box for medical information.....how about you...
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    Verbal orders in texas from Medical assistant

    We were told both in school AND in hospital orientation that this is a HUGE NO NO!!!!!!! We were told that an RN in no way was to take an order from anyone but another NURSE/PA or of course the Doc. If it were me I would ask for a title before any o...
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    For recent NCLEX passers......

    I used Saunders 4th ed to review stuff that I was not confient about or needed a review on ---> cancer, chemo, radiation chapter...READ IT! I also would suggest reading the CV chapter and also the AIDS stuff. I used the Sunders Q&A book also...
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    Anyone Up For Random FACT THROWING??

    OMG I just found out that I PASSED NCLEX!!!!!! I wanted to say thanks for all of your quik facts and for keepin this thread going!!!