suetje

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1. CCRN with tele experience?

   suetje replied to jennysong81's topic in MICU

   Good for you! you should always take on a challenge! Can you get a job in an ICU so that you have some of the necessary knowledge to pass the CCRN? that would be best.

2. Denying Death As A Society

   suetje replied to Kyrshamarks's topic in General Nursing

   I teach and make jokes of this to the RNs I teach.." It's OK Mom! You are a fighter! You are only 102!" We are a terrible death-defying society. Even trying to discuss this topic is almost forbidden. I encourage all to have an extremely specific...

3. I'm a new nurse and I feel like quitting :'(

   suetje replied to NurseGee2016's topic in New Nurse

   There are marvelous institutions out there (I work in one!!!) and you should move either to another unit or hospital! There are great people out there, great teachers and mentors. You deserve to have good ones!

4. Should ICU get more pay than floor nursing?!?

   suetje replied to francoml's topic in MICU

   Unfortunately, I think it is. We have to be so much more skilled, have so much more critical skills...and no more pay. It is equivalent to paying a company vice president the same as the office workers! are you kidding? I always say, "If they or t...

5. The future of hemodialysis?

   suetje replied to Chisca's topic in Urology

   I believe the only clinical trial of the "wearable kidney" were in Europe. And yes, this is a working prototype but nanotechnology could make this much smaller. Not sure what you'd do with the ultrafiltrate tho!!!

6. Is CNS masters program a bad idea for regular RN on hospital floor?

   suetje replied to Natalie513's topic in CNS

   You really owe it to yourself to just practice for a while as a nurse. You may find a CNS program to be quite a handful without any background experience in the real world of nursing. You surely can get a job in L & D without a Masters! The p...

7. New Grad Neuro ICU Position

   suetje replied to Viking12's topic in Critical

   The fact that you have done 2 semesters in a neuro unit is fabulous and probably you have learned a lot more than you thought you did! So you already are ahead of the game! If you want to learn more, you could always get a book on Neuro nursing, fr...

8. Our Death-Defying, Death-Denying Society

   suetje replied to TheCommuter's topic in Activism

   Thank you so much for having the courage to 'tell it like it REALLY is' in our ICUs. We have no idea how much many of our patients suffer because they cannot tell us. They cannot even tell us if they want treatment continued most of the time!!! and...

9. Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP): My Personal Pro's and Con's

   suetje replied to Corey Narry's topic in Doctoral

   I agree with Julie A. The "standards" to raise nursing practice are all great, but what really IS the value of a DNP? It should reflect skills with clinical practice yet I hear the students I work with tell me, 'The nurses that teach us with Doctor...

10. Denying Death As A Society

    suetje replied to Kyrshamarks's topic in General Nursing

    Absolutely positively to the point! I see it in my ICU too. And the Attendings are often the problem. We all know it is going to happen, but the comment from them is 'Well, good news! The white count is down" Ridiculous! And WHY are healthcare ...

11. Running PRBC concurrently with NS?!

    suetje replied to nurseap's topic in General Nursing

    I agree with iluvivit. Saline is the only thing to run "with" blood, and clearly, the MD did not want the pt to get fluid overload the pt, so she slowed the rate of the infusion while blood was running. You also could have started another line as w...

12. Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP): My Personal Pro's and Con's

    suetje replied to Corey Narry's topic in Doctoral

    @traumaRus- yes I am called an educator. Fine. The 'pseudo CNS' means I do that job as well as educator because we have no CNS and it dovetals into the whole mentor educator role. I suggesated to the Director I could be called something other than...

13. Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP): My Personal Pro's and Con's

    suetje replied to Corey Narry's topic in Doctoral

    I agree that the DNP ius a worthy goal, but for us bedside expert clinicians, it is a title for....WHAT? Any of us that read academic journal articles can understand research, I think. So shouldn't there be a ladder, if you will, to check off level...

14. MICU vs SICU

    suetje replied to NCRNMDM's topic in MICU

    Trust me, in our large teaching hospital, a lot of the patients in MICU are frequent flyers like quads that come in for repeated pneumonias, CF patients with issues, and those chronic medical patients that keep having problems. SICU is fresh people ...

15. minimum UFpossible?

    suetje posted a topic in Urology

    Anyone have an answer for why the so-called standard for setting the minimum UF on a dialysis machine seems to always be taught as 300? this would be when you are not taking any fluid off. There does not seem to be any documentation why this seems ...