R.NICU

R.NICU specializes in Acute Rehab.

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1. What is your sleep routine the night before a night-shift?

   R.NICU replied to 2011nursetobe's topic in General Nursing

   If it's my first day on I just go to sleep whenever I want [[somwhere between 11-2am]], wake up when I feel [[usually 8-10]], and may take a quick hour nap before work..but not usually. However, if I worked the previous night, after the shift, I st...

2. Ages of male nursing students?

   R.NICU replied to Stearnsy's topic in Male Students

   Hey guys. I started the RN program spring two years ago and was 21. Got my LPN license July last year and my RN license 3 days ago ...both at age 23 :-)

3. Have you ever been mistaken for a doctor?

   R.NICU replied to ThePrincessBride's topic in Men

   sometimes. i tell them i'm a nurse and they ask me if i'm going to upgrade to doctor ...um, no.

4. Ratios on acute rehab floor in hospital

   R.NICU replied to Lola77's topic in Rehabilitation

   what are the patient:nurse ratios (for day and night) on your acute rehab floor in a hospital setting? -on days it's supposed to be 6:1 but it never is. it's usually 7-10 patients to a nurse what is the ratio for patient:CNA? for the techs it's 1:8....

5. Who does what in the discharge?

   R.NICU replied to albinotoad's topic in Rehabilitation

   Hey. Sorry for the late response, but I've been M.I.A. d/t this last semester of school! omgoodness they are trying to kill us. anyway, that's another story, for another thread. At my facility, you may have also just met the person for the first t...

6. Pima CC Seat Shuffle

   R.NICU replied to Staragate's topic in Arizona

   That sounds like a cute stehie! Make sure you keep track of it. If you lend it to a doctor or another nurse, keep track of them cuz they will walk away with it. A doc in the ED at clinicals asked for my stethescope and i followed her around for 30...

7. Pima CC Seat Shuffle

   R.NICU replied to Staragate's topic in Arizona

   hey everyone, I'm in my fourth semester at Pima CC. You will have to have the following to be eligible for clinicals in the spring: 1. a TB skin test, good through the end of the spring semester. (TB test is good for one year) 2. Copy of your shot r...

8. Lay-offs

   R.NICU replied to silentRN's topic in Arizona

   i have a friend that works at tmc and she said alot of nurses got laid off.

9. Everything is under control until...

   R.NICU posted a topic in New Nurse

   ...I get a new admit! I'm a new nurse chugging along through my orientation. Things seems to be going well, i started with 2 patients at the beginning of orientation and had 4 today + a new admit, so 5. I think i'm catching on nicely. Things were...

10. ER job- new grad

    R.NICU replied to RN-Ella's topic in New Nurse

    Maybe that will be good for you. There are several factors that could help determine that...how fast you learn, their new grad program, your preceptor, etc. I'm surprised your orientation isn't longer though, especially for a specialty such as ER. ...

11. looking back, are there courses that you thought were not necessary?

    R.NICU replied to nowIamRN's topic in General Nursing

    writing 101 and 102 was basically a repeat of what i did in high school. I don't remember but one or two things from my psychology and sociology classes. Child Development was fun, but not needed. My humanities class was a joke!...but an easy A.

12. Nursing Gear- Essentials

    R.NICU replied to greenwithme's topic in Uniform/Gear

    stethescope, penlight, tape, alcohol pads, several pens, and atleast two pairs of gloves on me at all times.

13. On a scale of 1-10: Rehab Nursing

    R.NICU replied to RNBeachGirl's topic in Rehabilitation

    I also work at a rehab hospital and would give it an 8/10. Reasonable patient load, docs are nice most of the time, wonderful co-workers....yeah, 8/10. What knocks it down two points is that fact that we don't always have the necessary resources th...

14. 6 wks enough orientation for new nurse in acute rehab?

    R.NICU replied to R.NICU's topic in Rehabilitation

    thank you all for your replies! I'm so stoked! Wednesday is my first official day, but the nurses have been allowing me to do little things here and there :) what do you believe is the hardest things for a new rehab nurse to adjust to? I'm absolut...

15. Tell me someone else has felt like this....

    R.NICU replied to NurseMegh's topic in General Nursing

    Hello! I just received my LPN license this month and have a job in acute rehab. I believe I have a leg up on you by having worked in this facility for the past year as a tech so I'm not as intimidated. But I'm intimidated nonetheless. You have to rem...