is six months ahead of the deadline for applications too early to start gathering reference letters? the only reason i ask is b/c i was thinking about transferring to another unit and would rather have the manager where i've worked the past xxx years...
i'm sure i've seen this subject discussed before but i did a search and no luck. anyway, i'm preparing to take the gre and i'm sure i heard that some schools don't put much stock in the writing portion of the gre. other than calling the specific scho...
your experience in the burn center will depend on what kind of patients they have while you are there. some burns are minor or are in the non-critical grafting stage. this may still be very interesting to you. the exciting ones (for us burn nurses) a...
sallee13 replied to Driven Persistence's topic in Burn
are you talking about the unit being verified by the american college of surgeons or the rn's acquiring abls? i work in a unit that has recently went through the verification process and it was a several year process. in regards to abls, all of our n...
since i work 7p-7a i usually go to sleep by 9a and sleep till 2-3. of course i wake up several times for bathroom trips (which really makes me mad some days!). i would love to be able to sleep later but 50 mg of benadryl only lasts so long. i also wo...
even on bad days, my cup is over half full. i obviously lucked out in the hospital and unit i work in. come to think of it, before i took this job i worked for several years in a ltc facility that was understaffed and overworked. the building was old...
wow. i must be in a different rn world because for the most part, i like my job. i work for a flexible manager, in a critical care unit that works as a team, and get paid a decent wage for what i do. i've been here long enough to realize that we have...
having done this for over 5 years i would say no. i know that age and inhalation injury play into the answer but i would say no. the highest percentage i have seen survive is 70 % in a 20 year old with no inhalation injury. we have also had several 9...
sallee13 replied to aurora_borealis's topic in General Nursing
Accidently Set Mso4 Pca For 1:1 Mix And The Syringe Was A 5:1 Mix And The Pump Was Running At 5 Mg/hr (that's 50 Mg An Hour For You Tired Soles) Luckily The Patient Had Been Receiving High Dose Morphine For A Long Time With His Burns And There Was ...