getoverit

getoverit BSN, RN, EMT-P

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getoverit has 18 years experience as a BSN, RN, EMT-P and specializes in ER/ICU/Flight.


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  1. Staff Nurses Who Refuse To Precept Or Teach?

    Your opinions are meaningless to me. You seem to have an elementary school approach to debate, you clearly don't even understand what I've written. You use my quotes back at me in ways that don't even make sense and show your profound lack of basic...
  2. Staff Nurses Who Refuse To Precept Or Teach?

    I'm not being petty about anything. You have characterized and judged me without understanding what I've written, even after I explained it to you in details I think are easy to get. I don't care who agrees or disagrees with me and some people try to...
  3. Staff Nurses Who Refuse To Precept Or Teach?

    Oh no!!!! This makes me re-think everything!! It must feel good being in the "majority" (of people responding)
  4. Staff Nurses Who Refuse To Precept Or Teach?

    You're entitled to your opinion and I'm entitled to think you're wrong
  5. Staff Nurses Who Refuse To Precept Or Teach?

    not sure why you feel that is a hard concept to grasp based on my post. I never said anyone should be tasked to precept when they don't want to, in fact I believe that they shouldn't have a student or new orientee assigned to them if that's the way ...
  6. Staff Nurses Who Refuse To Precept Or Teach?

    Ruby Vee, I have read your posts for many years and am a little taken aback by this one. I have been a preceptor for over 20 years and have received more than a couple awards for teaching/precepting. Not bragging on myself, just giving a little con...
  7. Staff Nurses Who Refuse To Precept Or Teach?

    Quote by LLG: Just because I have needed work done by a plumber (or substitute electrician, dentist, lawyer, car mechanic, etc.) in the past doesn't mean I am obligated to provide that service to others who need it now. I agree with your response wi...
  8. Staff Nurses Who Refuse To Precept Or Teach?

    I've always wondered if the nurses who don't like teaching or precepting also didn't like it when their teachers and preceptors were helping them learn new things.... Seems like a double standard at times
  9. What is the funniest thing a doctor has said to you?

    Before an exam a patient asked the doctor where they should put their clothes, the doctor said "Just leave them on the floor next to mine." I was introducing a patient to a different doctor (who wasn't paying any attention), I said "This is Mr. Smi...
  10. The needles we use take about 0.7cc to prime. We don't "push" the epi with saline, epinephrine is the only thing going through the needle. We have 10cc of 1:10,000 and we inject until the MD tells us to stop. We determine how much epi is left in th...
  11. Ethical Issues

    MunoRN asks a good questions, just DNR or comfort care? Huge difference. 4 mg MSO4 q15m isn't that much and with an order like that I'm assuming they were comfort care. Also still intubated at time of death? Was he trying to extubate himself as he ...
  12. How long did you study for CCRN?

    It's a very broad test for general critical care knowledge. I took the PassCCRN review CD, the areas I scored the lowest on I studied for a couple of weeks (Ignoring areas I scored >90%). I took the test quite a while ago and didn't know if/how it...
  13. Being Deposed - Help!

    I've been deposed once. Kid in a car wreck, ejected through the open side window. Agonal when we arrived and dead within a couple minutes from a terrible head injury. Don't assume that being deposed guarantees being named in a suit. One advice I h...
  14. Respiratory acidosis/failure s/s

    You're right, it isn't easy to pick up on subtle hints at times. Respiratory acidosis is a pCO2>45, regardless of the pH. If the pH is normal, then the acidosis is being compensated. Your body wants to blow off the excess carbon dioxide so tachypn...
  15. Correct way to take a carotid pulse

    I've heard the same thing from instructors, the only rationale anyone ever provided was that checking the pulse on the opposite side may increase the risk of occluding the vessel or manipulating his larynx. I don't buy either argument. As for the le...