Abishag

Abishag

One day CCU maybe!

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Abishag specializes in One day CCU maybe!.


Wife of 10yrs, mother to 2, nurse of 6 months. Want to work CCU one day!

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  1. What's your reason for putting up with it?

    I'm starting to think my experience and training have only set me up to keep me opressed. Hmm. Maybe I need to take that course on abuse in the workplace. I wonder if I'm just getting old school info from old school nursing instructors who mean well....
  2. ICU/CCU fast paced??

    Hello, I'm a fairly new grad and have been working the last 6 months in Med-Surg. It is so fast-paced that I don't sit down AT ALL. We're not supposed to sit anyways but if we were allowed to, I still wouldn't have time to. I sometimes don't get my l...
  3. What's your reason for putting up with it?

    I won't argue that my perception or how I react will or won't change. I am new to nursing and thanks for saying I'm young. I still feel young lol. But after 8 years in telephone customer service and a job depending on how I respond to angry verbally...
  4. What's your reason for putting up with it?

    carolmaccas66 I was not talking about accepting abuse by individuals that are in their right mind. However, you can tell the ones that are abusive in general by how they treat their family members, and those that are just being over-protective and st...
  5. NCLEX Pass Rates For Charlotte Area Nursing Programs

    Nick - Our final semester we had clinicals and class lectures on ICU. We rotated and took patients in the CCU, MICU an and SICU. I did my preceptorship in the CCU as well. Our instuctor had many years in the CCU so he was passionate about it.
  6. What's your reason for putting up with it?

    I can tell you why I put up with behavior like that. I was taught in nursing school that patients and families are sometimes dealing with an extreme amount of stress and don't know how to handle it. Sometimes we think the patient's condition is not a...
  7. NCLEX Pass Rates For Charlotte Area Nursing Programs

    As a former MSON graduate, I can tell you that we were constantly being told by nurses at the hospitals that compared to other schools we were way ahead of the game. Apparently the other schools did more shadowing and ancillary work (baths, etc) whil...
  8. Shaky hands and IV starts?!

    I have shaky hands naturally as well. I'm a first year RN. I can tell you...shaky hands is the least of your worries. Catching rolling veins and not blowing crappy ones on the other hand...sigh. I'm in a hospital that is mainly geriatric (worst vein...
  9. Do you think this med error was preventable?

    What kind of insulin was it? If it was Lantus I probably wouldn't have given it unless they were over 120 just out of habit. Even if there was no rule or perameters saying to hold if Even when there are no parameters given, I usually hold insulin wh...
  10. ?? for labor & delivery nurses in Triangle area

    Hey, I'm a new grad here. When I did my clinical rotations they were at the CMC-Pineville maternity center in Charlotte, NC. They have a level III NICU I believe. I know that the RNs in that maternity center can also scrub. I know the CNM's have been...
  11. You know I just don't even understand why we have to wait 48 hours when they know the results almost instantly. But God forbid I lived in CA!!! I can't imagine waiting longer than 48 hours for my results!!! I feel sorry for you. I felt like projectil...
  12. NCLEX in 5 days- any help would be great!!

    Do you know what your pass rate is for you school? The reason I ask, is because if you guys have 100% pass rate, then try not to worry so much. Your faculty prepared you well for the NCLEX-RN. Don't sell them short. My school has a 100% pass rate f...
  13. Pearsonvue Trick Is this TRUE? Does it work every time?

    It is true! I just checked and I passed! The pearson trick worked for me. :) Also, for any that are concerned that their questions were getting easier at the end. Mine definitely got easier. Almost like the computer had forgotten to give me easy ones...
  14. I received a phone call from a recruiter this week wanting me to send in my goals & objectives for the new grad position along with clinical references. I've been applying since October and this is the first real interest I've been shown. So now ...
  15. Pearsonvue Trick Is this TRUE? Does it work every time?

    I took it today. Had 81 questions. Mostly drugs I had never heard of and tons of priority questions. I had 8 SATA. I tried the Pearsonvue trick and so far I have the good pop up that I can not register and to contact my member board services or what...