meghan91

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  1. anyone hearing about eICU?

    We have eicu in the icu that I work at. I honestly feel like we don't call to them a lot during the day an evening we have our own critical care doctors in the unit along with nps an pa's. after 7pm we only have np's an pa's in the unit so sometimes ...
  2. what disorder would this be?

    hey guys my friend i go to school with is doing a project for school she is a psych major and she was having some issues trying to decide what disorder this case would be and she asked me about it yesterday but i wasnt sure . A 12 year old child who...
  3. ok this is a really stupid question but its bugging me and id like to know haha. say someone takes a deep breath in what is that V like shape that get sucked in on the base of the neck called
  4. hey guys, i have never been great at math and i currently have the "Dosage calculations ninth edition by Gloria D Pickar" book, i think its an ok book but i want something more straight forward and made simpler showing me flat out step by step how to...
  5. HI everyone, im currently a nursing student and a nursing assistant at my local hospital in the ICU. To make a long story short in the ICU that I work at aides never did vitals or outputs because they felt that those were critical and should be watch...
  6. Do I need 2 stethoscopes?

    I was reading a few posts on here and I saw a few people say that they bought a good stethoscope (a littmann for example) and used that for learning, clinicals basically ... that was their main stethoscope. But then they also bought a cheaper stetho...
  7. hey everyone, in the fall i am going to be starting a BSN nursing program and i was wondering what things i should get. I know i need a stethoscope,white shoes, kelly clamps, pen lights and a BP cuff. what other things would you reccomend? are there ...
  8. MSICU vs trauma ICU?

    hi everyone, I am currently a nursing assistant in my hospitals MSICU. The hopsital is a level 1 trauma ceneter but we dont have a trauma ICU. I am in nursing school and ever since i was young i always wanted to work in either the ER (like the traum...
  9. hey everyone! i am currently in the market to buy a stethoscope for my clinicals that start this fall for the BSN program i am in. littmann seem to make nice durable well made stethoscopes and since i am just starting out i figured i should probably ...
  10. thanks everyone! i know it seems excessive to have all 3 suctions set up but as soon as a room is cleaned our unit wants our nursing assistant to have the room semi set up in the way that ALL suctions are set up and ready to go in an emergency, there...
  11. Fecal Management Systems

    our hospital now uses diginicares. i dont think they leak ALOT but they do leak with out a doubt and nurses have told me that they let the smell out a lot more than other systems. i think they are all going to leak and smell and get clogged and backe...
  12. hey guys! i am currently a nursing student working in an MSICU as a nursing assistant part of our job is to get the room "set up" when an incoming patient is coming to the unit. I wanted to get other nurses opions and things you as nurses would want ...
  13. hey guys! so I'm a nursing student and worked at my hospital in patient transport for a year and I am now a nursing assistant in the ICU. when I worked in transport I noticed this but even more when I started in the ICU as an aid because I use hand s...
  14. which job would you go with?

    hey everyone, i am starting nursing classes for my BSN this fall (all pre reqs and any other classes are already done). I work at my local hospital as patient transport aid (taking patients to rooms, to tests, discharges, morgue etc) i have worked t...
  15. hey guys, i currently work at the hospital as a patient transport aide but i want to actually be with the patients more and see whats going on actually and gain more experience while in nursing school. i want to apply as a N/A in the MSICU part time ...