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Emergency Nursing Advanced Practice

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About RNCENCCRNNREMTP

RNCENCCRNNREMTP has 30 years experience and specializes in Emergency Nursing Advanced Practice.


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  1. Those that have taken CEN - a few questions

    Graduated 1991. Took CEN 1992. Passed. Take it every 4 years. Celebrating 20 years.
  2. ATCN vs TNCC

    The new (6th edition) TNCC which rolls out this year does dedicate a lecture and skill station to airway management and is up to date with ETT position verification. Problem with ANY course is that it is often outdated, in at least some respect, as ...
  3. ATCN vs TNCC

    I have always had a dream of creating a common trauma course, one that was taken from hospital to hospital so that the teams that worked together in the smaller community ED's would take the course together. medics, EMT's, ER nurses and doctors and s...
  4. Anyone heard of any NP to MD programs?

    Yes, it is called medical school.
  5. 8:1 ratio in the ED?

    Agreed. However, administration (in my experiences) rarely sees that nurses have limitations. Often there is a feeling that "a nurse is a nurse is a nurse" and there is no difference in capability, experience or competence. That is when it gets to be...
  6. Beng told not to become an NP!

    I am an acute care NP and all of my preceptors ere physicians. My choice. I have never fully subscribed to the nursing model and nursing Dx, even as an RN. Do what you want to do, there will be a job.
  7. Any Indiana NPs?

    I just graduated from University of Southern Indiana (Evansville) ACNP program. ONline with clinicals set up locally (and approved by professors). Very good preogram. High pass rate and high certification rate. 2,3 or 4 year tracts depending on your...
  8. Scheduling lunch breaks in the ED

    I do not need a scheduled break. I have repeatedly gone a 12 hour shift with none, not even toilet break. But the common 8+:1 and sometimes 12:1 ratio got old and I felt the level of care by MD's and nursing was not (and still is not) safe.
  9. 8:1 ratio in the ED?

    That is one of the reasons why I left where I had worked for over 24 years. Too unsafe and administration did not care. Now they have temporary docs and agency nurses and so things are even worse. A friend still works there and he has had 20:1 ratios...
  10. 8:1 ratio in the ED?

    Ridiculous? YES! [EVIL]Dangerous? YES!![/EVIL] Uncommon? Increasingly NO. Where I used to work we were so poorly staffed and so very busy that if a critical patient came in that needed 1:1, the other staff might have 10 or 12:1 ratio and some of them...
  11. do you think...?

    Nope, I researched post rape options for a paper for my MSN. Many Catholic hospitals allow for post sexual assault counseling including providing medication to prevent pregnancy. SSFHS opted to go to the extreme, citing "working in concert with the d...
  12. do you think...?

    Striict adherence to Catholic dogma (no tubal ligations, no plan B for rape victims, etc) poor insurance plans, poor management, blinders to what is going on in the real world, poor management again. Left a facility I had worked at for 20 years becau...
  13. Learning thread (ER medicine)

    Also hair tourniquets on fingers, toes and penis
  14. Learning thread (ER medicine)

    Marfan's Syndrome
  15. ATCN vs TNCC

    If you have read the book, worked in an ER x 5 years (that sees a fair amount of trauma, pay attention during presentations and practice all that you can during the skill sessions I can almost guarantee that you will do well. Good luck and have fun!