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1. reference letters

   sallee13 replied to sallee13's topic in SRNA

   thanks for your input. i started asking this morning for the references.

2. reference letters

   sallee13 posted a topic in SRNA

   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...

3. Economics of The New Grad CRNA

   sallee13 replied to zaga21's topic in CRNA

   most of us aren't so testy and judgemental. wow. discuss away.

4. gre writing score

   sallee13 posted a topic in SRNA

   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...

5. Shadowing nurse in Burn Unit

   sallee13 replied to suzy253's topic in Burn

   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...

6. Burn Certification

   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...

7. question for experienced burn nurses

   sallee13 replied to jemb's topic in Burn

   sorry to hear about your friend, but there are some things worse than death.

8. Night shift nurses...How many hours of sleep do you get?

   sallee13 replied to lpnin03's topic in General Nursing

   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...

9. Would you want your children to go into nursing?

   sallee13 replied to 2rntish's topic in General Nursing

   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...

10. Would you want your children to go into nursing?

    sallee13 replied to 2rntish's topic in General Nursing

    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...

11. question for experienced burn nurses

    sallee13 replied to jemb's topic in Burn

    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...

12. Your Worst Mistake

    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 ...