TNhome - I have 4 years of ICU and 4 years of flight nursing experience. I believe UTC publishes their GRE score requirements on the website so as long as you meet or beat those requirements, you'll be qualified to apply. Some applicants get in with ...
hockeynpolo replied to Rock.Libster's topic in Flight
I'm a flight nurse and my company requires all their nurses to be paramedics as well so I attended a bridge program. It was a very fast program, relying heavily on my past experiences as an ICU nurse for pathophysiology and pharmacology. My 8 weeks o...
an interesting potential side effect of Neo is reflex bradycardia so this patient could have had the alpha 1 agonist of neo for Bp support and count on some reflex bradycardia for rate control. I work in the transport world so when we pick up AAAs, t...
I would assume they do since it's required prior to interviewing. As far as how much that score is weighted in the acceptance process, that I don't know.
@ butterfly journey - I'm still at Parkland. It wouldn't hurt to mention you plan on staying at Parkland for the long run; especially when the new hospital opens. You are right in that many of the ICU interns and residents leave after their contract ...
Laura and Barbara have been doing this for more than 20 years. They already have an idea of the type of nurses they want in the internship. This probably sounds cliche, but be yourself. They aren't looking for the person who has a 4.0 GPA and is goin...
You can still be a critical care nurse at Parkland with an ADN. Instead of doing the internship, where you rotate through all the different ICUs, you can do their Residency. The residency is different in that you interview for one of the ICUs (burn, ...
hockeynpolo replied to IheartICUnursing's topic in MICU
HD is never done on unstable patients in my MICU. We have pts on CRRT and if they can tolerate it, we will increase the fluid removal rate per hour on the CRRT machine to pull more fluid off. HD pulls too much fluid off too quickly. I was taught that...
hockeynpolo replied to NursingStudentEMT's topic in MICU
I was a new grad last year and interviewed for 2 critical care new grad programs. I was accepted to both. Now I'm 1 year out of nursing school with 1 year of medicine and cardiac ICU experience under my belt. It most certainly is possible!
I grew up in California, went to college in Oregon, and applied to two ICU residencies (one in Texas and one in Tennessee). I got into both. Also there are 22 residents in my class, 10 of them came from out of state. So it is possible. If you're enth...