AOX4RN MSN, RN, NP

AOX4RN has 7 years experience as a MSN, RN, NP and specializes in Emergency Department.

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1. keep my LE certification??

   AOX4RN replied to LEtoRN's topic in Emergency

   Never give up a license or certification you worked your butt off for, unless the next license or certification absorbs/trumps it.

2. FNU Class 146

   AOX4RN replied to parks0924's topic in NP Students

   I wouldn't worry about it, I'm sure you'll get plenty of review in school

3. FNU Class 146

   AOX4RN replied to parks0924's topic in NP Students

   I was also accepted into class 146

4. Ridiculous medical mistakes on TV

   AOX4RN replied to adventure_rn's topic in Humor

   Well since a bolus means to give the medicine as a single dose all at once, I can say that I've given many narcan boluses and seen heroin (and other opiate) ODs magically wake up to live another day of drug addiction. (But not before they curse us fo...

5. Are ER Patients Getting More Ridiculous?

   AOX4RN replied to us2uk4u's topic in Emergency

   The ER I work in is completely ridiculous and that's why I love it. I will take the EMS run for the 22 year old who is having anxiety r/t to dropping her iphone in the toilet any day... she frees me up to take care of the STEMI going to cath lab nex...

6. Quit during orientation

   AOX4RN replied to Themostsupreme's topic in General Students

   Yup, I know many techs in my unit who wanted the job and thought it would be a formality of a title change when they graduated nursing school. Nope, most are in different units or at entirely different hospitals. Nurses get interviewed about new gr...

7. Babies on a plane!! (and also cord clamping)

   AOX4RN replied to adventure_rn's topic in CNM

   Easy. Don't cut the cord. In a perfect situation, deliver the baby to mom's chest and cover with warm blankets and stimulate it to cry to clear it's airway if needed. In about five minutes the placenta will want to deliver... keep it connected to...

8. Difference between BSN and RN

   AOX4RN replied to Katie5's topic in ADN/BSN

   Wow. From which Ivy League school did you buy your degree? They, and Vanguard in particular, cater to nurses who are working full-time and have families. Four hours per week in the classroom with a strict attendance policy in addition to online p...

9. Vanguard University

   AOX4RN replied to LatanyaMay2006's topic in California

   I'll write this reply for anyone who needs accurate information about Vanguard University. I have lived in Newport Beach nearly my whole adult life and knew about it before I was a nurse. They don't claim to be accredited. They are accredited b...

10. ER Wishlist Items!

    AOX4RN replied to HappyKYRN's topic in Emergency

    Re: ultrasound for PIVs... after getting one you'll need to train nurses to use it

11. Hoag Hospital Newport Beach

    AOX4RN replied to MonyRNcali's topic in California

    Did you take it yet? The rules of the test are you can't miss any of the lethal rhythms on the strips they give you. Tele nurses and other monitored units have to take a rhythm test every year. If you don't pass it you get one repeat... fail it ag...

12. How is cardiac nursing?

    AOX4RN replied to bryan_del's topic in Cardiac

    Yeah, start there. No biggie... on my current unit we have new grads fresh out of school. You get preceptored and mentored and if it's a good unit, you have a team environment. We have different levels of acuity in our unit so new grad assignments...

13. Tele Unit to ER?

    AOX4RN replied to jtnurse13's topic in Cardiac

    I've got two years on tele and am going to the ED soon. According to the managers I interviewed with tele is a great place to get experience that will help in the ED. Our tele unit is also a step down from CCU/CVICU and it's a STEMI center, so it's...

14. How is cardiac nursing?

    AOX4RN replied to bryan_del's topic in Cardiac

    I've been working as a telemetry nurse since graduation two years ago. I worked one year in a hospital that was very basic tele and now I'm at another that would be considered a sub-ICU environment considering we do everything from cath lab recovery...

15. Certified Nurse Midwives who do home births???

    AOX4RN replied to michellelizabeth's topic in CNM

    Becoming a direct-entry midwife (DEM) is a waste of time for a nurse. Five minutes after earning whatever education and credentialing available as a DEM, you're maxed out in the field. It is far better to continue toward grad school and earn the CN...