emersushea

emersushea has 7 years experience.

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1. Is this too much or am I crazy...what are your units like?

   emersushea replied to emersushea's topic in Cardiac

   I was looking back at my previous posts and came across this one! Its amazing I totally forgot about the night I wrote about. Probably blacked it out! Phew, got out of that position a year ago! I now work days in ICVR (like short stay for cath lab) ...

2. PCCN

   emersushea replied to sruthisharma's topic in General Nursing

   I passed. Woo hoo! I liked David Woodruff's program as well. I found his practice questions to be extremely helpful. I also read the AACN Essentials of Progressive Care Nursing by Chulay and Burns which seemed to include a lot more information than w...

3. PCCN

   emersushea replied to sruthisharma's topic in General Nursing

   I am also taking PCCN tomorrow Sept 15th. Also purchased the SAE and felt horrible after I took it! I spoke with two other nurses I work with who just passed and they both said that the SAE was not like the actual PCCN test. That in the SAE the quest...

4. Is this too much or am I crazy...what are your units like?

   emersushea posted a topic in Cardiac

   First off, sorry for the length and the spelling/grammar errors...its been a long night. I work nights on a busy 33-bed telemetry floor at an inner-city nonprofit hospital. I am a new grad and have been on this floor for 1 year and 4 months and I ju...

5. diagnostic imaging RN

   emersushea posted a topic in General Nursing

   I've been a nurse on an Interventional CV Recovery and Telemetry unit for over a year. I work night shift and its starting to take its toll on my body and mind. I have recently been looking for day shift positions and came across an opening for an RN...

6. Things Patients Have Taught Me NOT To Do

   emersushea replied to Trixxy's topic in Humor

   Never get your buddies to help you trim the top of your 6 foot hedge by lifting a running lawn mower 6 feet into the air Never continue to inject insulin into the same abscessed spot on your thigh, and then debate about getting it checked out when yo...

7. Resume questions for 1 year out new grad RN

   emersushea posted a topic in General Nursing

   I am a new grad RN and have been in my current position for the past year. I have been offered a different position by my nurse manager and eagerly have accepted. According to hospital rules, my NM will need to create an open position that I will nee...

8. How much is your pay?

   emersushea replied to rainbowcak3's topic in General Nursing

   I've been working as an RN for the past 6 months in cardiology. My base pay is 27.99/hr plus 5.25/hr night differential and an additional $1/hr for weekends. This is in Oregon. I just realized I really need to start picking up extra shifts. Not only...

9. MICU/SICU - why open heart patients have high blood sugar?

   emersushea replied to telefloornurse's topic in MICU

   I was told by a cardiothoracic surgeon on our unit that intraoperatively when the heart is disturbed, the body releases glucose stores. He described it as a sudden surge of glucose. Which makes sense, your body thinks its under attack and it needs th...

10. diluted IM Phenergan?

    emersushea replied to awesomemom's topic in General Nursing

    I think the main issue with dilution would be that you are limited to using a large muscle for IM administration. I believe 2-5 mL is the max for IM injection in the ventrogluteal (which i've read is the current preferred site) according to most inst...

11. Dumbest thing a student/newbie ever said/did?

    emersushea replied to Abishag's topic in General Nursing

    This sounds awful but my charge nurse told me this story about my former preceptor. Apparently one of her patients was crashing so she yelled out of the pt's room, "hurry someone call 911!" So, a phlebotomist who happened to be passing by the room at...

12. FUN thread! how many months are you into your first year?

    emersushea replied to labrador4122's topic in New Nurse

    7/11/2007, took a couple months off and traveled; now 6 months into working in cardiology

13. EF of 78-88%

    emersushea replied to emersushea's topic in General Nursing

    Another thing the patient had been on 2.5 mg lisinopril bid and 200mg amiodarone qid. His cardiologist upped the lisinopril to 5 mg despite having a SBP in the 90s. I am wondering if the prescribing MD wanted to lower the BP so that the heart would p...

14. EF of 78-88%

    emersushea replied to emersushea's topic in General Nursing

    Thanks to all who answered my post! A little more information, because now more questions arise! I am so perplexed by this patient's situation. Sorry for the novel here.... The pt is very young and had an AVR when he was a teen d/t aortic stenosis. N...

15. EF of 78-88%

    emersushea posted a topic in General Nursing

    I am a new grad nurse 6 months into my position on a busy cardiac floor. I was always under the impression that an ejection franction (EF) of >55% was good. I was giving report to a fellow nurse and her student, I commented in report that the pati...