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  1. Nursing

    Hi there everyone I am a Canadian nurse who works Trauma intensive care. I have gone back to school to complete my degree. I am taking a politics in nursing course a and need to write a schoraly paper on nursing issues, provide a background analys...
  2. What type of ICU experience?

    I work in Trauma and Neurosurgery ICU.... There are swans, drips, all types of pressure monitor's. The patient population is usually younger with less medical problems, but they are just as sick. Nothing beats the trauma drama (for me anyways). I ...
  3. TNCC Course - Any Advice?

    Whatz up there Nightengale98 I actually just finished taking the course here in Toronto and it was amazing. Im a complete trauma junkie.....and work in Trauma and Neurosurgery ICU. The environment is definetly not stressful, the instructors want y...
  4. Drug Testing

    In Canada wee do not get drug tested. I guess it is treated as personal privacy. It all comes down to how you practice. If you were a concern then it becomes a concern.
  5. Peircings

    Hey all: Piercing are still cool and safe. When I was going to school, I actuakky worked as a body piercer for a tatto shopback in 97. So have had alot of piercings in my time including: eye brow, nose, septum, labret, stretched ears to 6 gauge, t...
  6. Where do you nurse?

    I work in Trauma & Neurosurgery intensive care
  7. cardiac drips?

    dopamine greater than 20mcg/kg/min is pure alpha stimuation. Sounds like when your using large does of one drug and its not working its time to switch to another such as Levoped (Norepinephrine) or dobutaminesince he was a cardiac patient and think ...
  8. Trauma season is upon us

    I work trauma & Neurosurgery ICU and you wouldn't believe all the pedistrians hit by car we have in the unit....it is out of control. I do love my job and love looking after the sickest of the sickest....but these poor people....so many withdraw...
  9. Frustrated .....

    Ya know its not a perfect world that i am wanting ....... it really is just all about respect ya know??? I dedicate myself to patient care when I am at work not peoples drama or ego's It was just annoying to come home and have that replay over and ov...
  10. Frustrated .....

    Yesterday was a really frustrating day. I work on a Trauma & Neurosurgery Intensive Care Unit. Yesterday I and the day before looking after a patient who was in a MVC wo obtained an isolated closed head injury. This patient was very agitated......
  11. where do u go to school?

    hi there bex .... got my nursing diploma at georgian college obtaimed my neuroscience certificate at humber college took my took my critical care certificate at george brown pressently working on my degree at ryerson got a question ask away peace