NHSbaseball32

NHSbaseball32 has 2 years experience and specializes in Trauma/Surgical ICU.

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1. $ pay scale range

   NHSbaseball32 replied to parrot07's topic in General Nursing

   I work at a hospital in alabama. Working nights make 24.25. I work just weekends 7p-7a fri sat and sun, just for working weekends you make 37.75.

2. Severe Respiratory Acidosis

   NHSbaseball32 replied to NHSbaseball32's topic in General Nursing

   i have not seen the documentation after extubation, according to the md his sat's were good maintaining 98% with a good pleth, i did ask them about that and his po2 was fine on the abg. he was just not able to blow his co2. does anyone know the ful...

3. Severe Respiratory Acidosis

   NHSbaseball32 replied to NHSbaseball32's topic in General Nursing

   I know that his pH was that practically of a dead person, its just a miracle that he has no neurological deficits from this and apparently no organ failure at all. Its absolutely amazing.

4. Severe Respiratory Acidosis

   NHSbaseball32 replied to NHSbaseball32's topic in General Nursing

   About the sedation wearing off that was my first thought, but the more I thought about it I started thinking that maybe this was the case: Since he was oxygenating well the entire time with sats 98-100% RR was well from my understanding, but just ver...

5. Severe Respiratory Acidosis

   NHSbaseball32 replied to NHSbaseball32's topic in General Nursing

   He was coded for bradycardia that soon resulted to PEA. He never had bloody secretions of any sort.

6. No orders?

   NHSbaseball32 replied to Tracy38000's topic in General Nursing

   Where I work in ICU if there is a direct admit from the dr office the patient most of the time comes with orders, if it is a direct admit from a different hospital then most of the time they don't and then we have to call to get orders. Pissy dr's i...

7. How did you know nursing was the career for YOU?

   NHSbaseball32 replied to Fast's topic in General Nursing

   Well for me I have always been fascinated with the human body, the way it works etc. I had the urge to go to med school but I didn't go for one reason: time. I wanted to go ahead and get my life on track with a career ASAP and thats why I chose thi...

8. Post Transfusion Labs

   NHSbaseball32 replied to Tweety's topic in General Nursing

   We normally wait about an hour depending on the doc. The rationale for waiting is to give the pc's plenty of time to circulate and mix in with the blood already in the circulatory system. Drawing an h/h too soon could possibly give false results.

9. Severe Respiratory Acidosis

   NHSbaseball32 replied to NHSbaseball32's topic in General Nursing

   I didn't really think about a PE because he was oxygenating well the whole time. They never did take him to CT because he was too critical at the time. The only type of prophalatic DVT he is on currenlty is SCD's nothing else that I am aware of. Oh y...

10. Severe Respiratory Acidosis

    NHSbaseball32 replied to NHSbaseball32's topic in General Nursing

    His baseline ABG's a week prior to surgery were a ph of 7.4 co2 44, po2 was 80. Heck of a lot better than i would have assumed considering his COPD, and his age is 64 if this adds any other useful information.

11. Any advice?

    NHSbaseball32 replied to ton343's topic in General Nursing

    The school i attended required a GPA of 2.5 to even apply to the program. If you had a 2.5 or higher then what they took into major consideration was math class/english/sciences. Good luck.

12. Severe Respiratory Acidosis

    NHSbaseball32 posted a topic in General Nursing

    I am an ICU RN and currently my father is in ICU following right upper lobectomy for cancer. A little history on my father is that he is a ex-smoker with a 1 ppd x 35 years, has COPD. Doctors stated that the surgery went well, minimal blood loss. ...

13. How many drugs to memorize???

    NHSbaseball32 replied to peds4now's topic in NCLEX

    Pharm was a soo soo area for me. Everyone told me not to stress out about pharm. There will be drugs on the test that you will have no freaking clue to what the drug is. A lot of them will not have the prefix or sufix that we tend to know them by....

14. Anyone get 75 q's and not pass?

    NHSbaseball32 replied to nurseby07's topic in NCLEX

    WOW, I don't know how!!! Maybe its a messup. But according to the BON I PASSED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! So if you don't get a lot of prioritization questions, there is still a hope. I had mainly teaching, every other one was teaching!!! So for those th...

15. What are high or low level questions?

    NHSbaseball32 replied to soontobenurse2's topic in NCLEX

    Well I took NCLEX July 1st, out of 75 I had about 6 who would you see first, and the rest was TEACHING!!! I don't know if that is a good sign or not will find out tomorrow. Best of luck.