Manurse715

Manurse715

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About Manurse715

Manurse715 has 2 years experience and specializes in ICU.


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  1. Trends in CRNA Compensations in Future

    With the changes in the financial aspects of healthcare that Obama is instigating, what will the trends be in CRNA salaries? Will hospitals and anesthesia groups seek to employ more CRNA's vs MD's as the cost is less?
  2. Union University CRNA Interview

    I went to a Preview Day at Union's campus. They said they didn't really care about the GRE, which I thought was weird. They said they look at your last 60 hrs GPA and what you made in Anatomy, physiology, micro and stats. I really liked the environm...
  3. Calcium Chloride vs Calcium Gluconate

    COD 123, thanks for that info. aCRNAhopeful, Here's what I'm reading: Calcium played a major role in the initiation of sliding the filiments (actin and myosin) in the cardiac contraction. It is both a trigger for contraction and a regulatory factor ...
  4. Calcium Chloride vs Calcium Gluconate

    Using a central line. The patient seemed to improve after giving the CaGluconate and other stuff we did.
  5. Calcium Chloride vs Calcium Gluconate

    This week I had and immediate post op emergent aortic valve replacement. He came back on Epi, Dopamine, Levophed and insulin drips. We started amniodarone soon after. Amongst other interventions we gave an amp of calcium gluconate. So what the diffe...
  6. OK salary and cost of living

    How is the public transportation system in OK? Lol. Public transportation in Tulsa is for poor people. No one who doesn't have to uses it. Honestly. Down here in the South things are different. There's not as much of a need for it really. Most folks ...
  7. OK salary and cost of living

    This info is for TULSA ~$18-19.00/hr I got a $7,000 sign on bonus paid out over the 2 year commitment at the going tax rate of (lame) 60%. But it's more than nothing. ~If your paying more than $600 for a one bed room you're in a "nicer" apartment. L...
  8. Hiring freeze?

    I work in Tulsa. As you may know, the economy in Tulsa is doing better than most of the US. I got hired in the ICU as a new grad in 2007. Starting pay for no experience with a BSN was $18-19.00 I work night/weekends, and have my CCRN which is a lit...
  9. Should I Wait For CCRN Certification

    I see. That sounds about right. Sounds like you have a good group of ICU RN's with you too. I saw that you sight 7 years as your length of experience. I made the assumption that this was 7 years of ICU experience. My mistake. I took my CCRN about a y...
  10. Should I Wait For CCRN Certification

    That's fair. I know in my setting of practice there are many who are very negative and tear people down just to build themselves up. I didn't know if this malevolence presented its self in your location, and if it contributed to reservation of taking...
  11. Should I Wait For CCRN Certification

    geekgolightly Gave a host of reasons why she shouldn't take her CCRN. Mostly, they were rooted in lack of self confidence. The AACN clearly lists the minimal requirements to take your CCRN. Once these are met, a balanced assessment of personal readin...
  12. CKMB, Troponin

  13. IV bolusing a fluid overloaded patient

    Albumin is expensive and while it is DUH logical for us to sit there and say "Dude, no oncotic pressure, low albumin, gross 3rd spacing, increased vascular permeability...give albumin..." Research suggests that colloids may not be any more effective ...
  14. potassium level and fluid replacement

    dittos on the previous. If the K is high R2 dehydration Crt and BUN are up too then you very well could see your K come down as your kidney kick it up a notch. But no, isn't directly effected by dilutional situations like Na Alb or H&H are.
  15. Should I Wait For CCRN Certification

    Whatever. You should take it. I've been in the ICU 2 years with many pundits of my capacities (mainly biased dayshifters). I studied daily. And passed it.