hockeynpolo

hockeynpolo

Cardiac &Medical ICU, Emergency Medicine

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About hockeynpolo

hockeynpolo has 2 years experience and specializes in Cardiac &Medical ICU, Emergency Medicine.


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  1. UTC CRNA Program 2019

    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 ...
  2. UTC CRNA Program 2019

    I got in as well. Very excited!
  3. RN-Medic Program Questions

    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...
  4. Esmolol and Norepi

    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...
  5. UTC CRNA Program 2019

    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.
  6. UTC CRNA Program 2019

    I'm from Texas but wanting to relocate to Tennesse. You?
  7. UTC CRNA Program 2019

    I applied. Still waiting for a call back
  8. Flight Nurse Book Called Trauma Junkie

    Such a great book. Gave it to some other flight nurses and even though they've been flying for a few years now, they loved the book too
  9. parkland critical care and trauma internship

    @ 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 ...
  10. parkland critical care and trauma internship

    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...
  11. parkland critical care and trauma internship

    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, ...
  12. Hemodialysis with low BP on pressors?

    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...
  13. Do I have a decent shot at getting an ICU job as a new grad?

    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!
  14. Dallas internships... New grad trying not to be discouraged!!

    I started looking at hospitals in February of last year and was contacted within 2 months, asking for me to fly out to Dallas and interview (parkland)
  15. Applying for new grad internships from out-of-state

    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...