NAVY RN

NAVY RN has 4 years experience and specializes in Med/Surg & ICU.

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1. CAN someone tell me PLEASE!!!

   NAVY RN replied to taapple's topic in Government

   That's interesting. It seemed like all the civilian nurses at NNMC had to have many years of experience before they were hired.

2. Any Navy Hospital Corpsman out there?

   NAVY RN replied to ldshaw's topic in Government

   Prior Enlisted HM3 Great Lakes HM Class 97-230!

3. Navy Nursing

   NAVY RN replied to warmrain's topic in Government

   Of course when you think of the Navy you think of ships, but in all actuality Nurses do not belong on ships. Most ships need only a medical officer and a few corpsmen. The bigger ships, i.e. Air craft carriers only have 1 nurse (not including any OR ...

4. CAN someone tell me PLEASE!!!

   NAVY RN replied to taapple's topic in Government

   I wish I could tell you about Balboa, but I just left the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland. Those two hospitals plus Naval Medical Center Portsmouth, Virginia are known as the "Big 3" in Navy medicine. They are all very similar to ...

5. How would you structure orientation for a medical assistant?

   NAVY RN posted a topic in General Nursing

   I want to restructure the orientation that the hospital corpsmen (Navy's version of medical assistant/LPN). Currently, the corpsmen with more experience are teaching/orienting the new corpsmen to the ward. This orientation phase is about a month long...

6. Advertise a specialty rather than "General Pracitce"?

   NAVY RN posted a topic in NP

   I read somewhere that private practices may actually attract more clientele by advertising a specialty rather than offering a "general" practice. For example, rather than advertising yourself as a "family care clinic". You could advertise as a "pain ...

7. looking for NP program in MD, PA, DE, VA, please advice

   NAVY RN replied to ira1027's topic in NP

   From my experience working with many of its graduates, the University of Maryland in Baltimore has an excellent Critical Care/Trauma NP/CNS program.

8. Cutdown????

   NAVY RN replied to LisaRn21's topic in General Nursing

   In ATLS I was taught to do cutdowns, but this should only be used after a peripheral/central/intraosseous access attempt has failed. The most common place to do a cutdown is at the great saphenous (sp?) vein at the ankle. If you're doing a cutdown, i...

9. Executive Nurses

   NAVY RN posted a topic in General Nursing

   Hello, I'm currently pursuing an MBA part-time. I'm an active duty Navy nurse and I'm hoping this will help me understand the operation of military healthcare and when I get out civilian healthcare as well. I'm looking to see what types of jobs tho...

10. Scrubs!!

    NAVY RN replied to NavyCheerGirl's topic in Government

    That sounds about right. I spent some time at Bethesda and it was the same there. However, I'm overseas now and on the ward the nurses wear their uniform (khaki's) on Monday's and Friday's. All other days they wear the unit issued scrubs. The scrubs ...