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  1. MICU vs SICU

    SICU is where the fun is!! Your patients actually get better and move on (for the most part). MICU is where all the chronic paintings hang around forever!! I personally enjoy coming into work and seeing a different patient each day and not the sam...
  2. Using Your GI Bill Benefits in 75 Easy Steps!

    I am fighting the VA currently! I have been attending a yellow ribbon school for six months - all the time waiting for reimbursement- only to hear that the program is ineligible!!! Per the VA the schools rep has avoided calls and does not respond a...
  3. AF Nurse Looking For Crit Care Bases

    I deployed with some amazing Army nurses!! I was referring to the scads of middle managers that SAMMC has an endless supply of - it gets in the way of getting anything done. I have many friends there that love the work and the nurses they work with...
  4. AF Nurse Looking For Crit Care Bases

    The ICUs that come to mind are Sammc (Army-yuck), Travis(drama-drama-drama), Wright-Pat, Eglin, Nellis, Kessler, Elmendorf, there may be one more stateside but no better than a step-down. Truth is most of the ICUs in the AF are not the same as you w...
  5. Finding the preceptor I never thought would be that hard, but then again I did not realize that NPs just do not want to precept anyone. I sent out 78 requests and received about 8 emails back declining to precept for all sorts of reasons. "My physic...
  6. Air Force Nurse Corps as a New Nurse

    i would have to disagree with the statement that those facilities are on par with any university medical center. You are not going to get the level of experience in the AF that you will in a larger medical center. No shame on the AF - its just the ...
  7. San Antonio FNP Preceptor?

    No, not much luck at all. I had one who agreed then vanished (flaked out) so I decided to seek one in Dallas where I finally found one!! Now I have to repeat the whole process two more times.....what have I gotten myself into LOL
  8. San Antonio FNP Preceptor?

    Anyone know of a FNP who is available to precept?? This finding your own preceptor business is not as easy as the school claimed it would be..
  9. How long did you study for CCRN?

    Our hospital had someone come in and do a 2-day review. We all signed up for the test without any study time, and all but one passed (the one had test anxiety). I think the statistics state that 70% of first-time testers pass. That is a pretty good n...
  10. Air force nursing cot august 2014

    Seriously, COT does not push anyone physically! Pass a PT test, march a little, learn a song or two and take easy tests. It is cake!! It is like a vacation! Just one with rules that make no sense.
  11. Interview at VA in 2 days, what to wear?

    I think a suit is a bit much. I don't ever remember an interviewee coming in a coat and tie.
  12. Air Force COT May 2014

    Mid, I agree with you about deployments. You really can't explain it to people who have never been. There are moments from my deployment that are burned in my brain forever. You just do not get use to seeing all these young soldiers coming through...
  13. CCATT nurse question

    Times they have changed. I have yet to meet a CCATT nurse with more than a few years experience and none have had their cert. Now a days its a task they let anyone do in the ICU - we had a nurse with less than 6months experience (AF ICU experience ...
  14. Vasopressor and Inotrope Titration Orders

    TJC has to always attempt to create more and more obstacles just to make their surveys appear relevant. In the old days the order would simply be for the drug and to titrate as needed for Map >60, but now there are the parameters that have been b...
  15. Force Management - nursing impact

    Rumors are everywhere. The buzz has been the ones close to retirement 15+ years are the first to be trimmed and then they take aim towards force shaping boards for the rest of us. I have had people tell me the specialties are pretty safe that with ...