therisingsun68

therisingsun68 has 3 years experience and specializes in All types of ICU.

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1. How you make yourself immune while you work as a nurse? Any ideas?

   therisingsun68 replied to moonlight_tiny's topic in General Nursing

   I too suffer from multiple sinus infections thru out the year. What I have found that helps is: eating right, drinking 64+ oz of H20 daily (at a minimum). I also take Zyrtec and Astelin. In addition, I do the nasal sinus irrigation 2 times daily(you ...

2. Online Master's Nursing Degree's??

   therisingsun68 replied to therisingsun68's topic in General Nursing

   Thanks everyone, I am going to call HR and see what they have to say about UOP and Walden U. Thanks.... Dawn

3. Professions before nursing

   therisingsun68 replied to nursebrandie28's topic in General Nursing

   I worn alot of different "hats", worked at a fast food restaurant in high school, local library, waitressed, drove a semi truck for a year with my husband. I also have worked in the corporate world also, as a Quality Assurance Auditor, a Quality cont...

4. Online Master's Nursing Degree's??

   therisingsun68 posted a topic in General Nursing

   Hi all, I have been a RN for over 3 three years and did the traditional BSN program at a university. I started the FNP at the same university that graduated with my BSN but had to quit the program to accept a position at a prominent medical facility....

5. Need an education topic for annual evaluation

   therisingsun68 replied to 2bTraumaRN2008's topic in General Nursing

   H1N1 would be a great topic, especially if your facility has seen some H1N1 patients. Education needs to be done to reinterate that this virus is just a mutation of influenza A. CDC seen this mutation coming in 2006 and expect another mutation in ear...

6. ECMO - Will We Have Sufficient Capacity for the Fall/Winter Flu Season?

   therisingsun68 replied to indigo girl's topic in COVID

   I work in one of the prominent medical facilities in the United States in the CVICU and we are seeing some of the H1N1 patients that are requiring ECMO to survive. Our hospital luckily has large CVICU rooms because the amount of room that the ECMO ma...

7. H1N1 patient dilemma

   therisingsun68 replied to jbjelus1's topic in General Nursing

   I can relate to this since I am ICU RN, who happened to come down with H1N1, due to exposure at work. I think that the RN in this question truely needs to have some remedial education on H1N1 precautions and also respiratory precautions. Additionally...