suetje replied to jennysong81's topic in MICU, SICU
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
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
@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...
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...
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...
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...
O!M!G! You are doing a GREAT job of quality assurance and your institution does not appreciate it? Geez! I would suggest to your Manager 1st you initiate a QA program for CRRT. Note the errors you...