Marnaby

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1. Hematoma/ecchymosis?

   Marnaby replied to zacarias's topic in Cardiac

   Although it does hurt to put pressure on a groin hematoma it's also VERY necessary. Otherwise your patient will continue to bleed from the artery/vein that was punctured under the skin. Then you get into low Hcts and BPs and no one wants that :nuke...

2. funky situation + cardizem = eep!

   Marnaby replied to Indy's topic in Cardiac

   Sorry to hear about your horrible night w/ that patient. They may also have been able to try doing an Amiodarone bolus w/ a drip. Still can drop the blood pressure, but it's another option. Then they can load the patient on PO amio. Did they thi...

3. Starting Salary

   Marnaby replied to gerry79's topic in Massachusetts

   I work at Beth Israel on a cardiac floor. Started out here in April of 2004 as a new grad at $25.13/hr. I'm up to $28/hr now with my recent raise and market adjustment. The salary thing that they do really confused me when I first started here, bu...

4. staffing on nights

   Marnaby replied to donmomofnine's topic in Geriatric

   I work on a 14 bed cardiac stepdown floor. When we are full at 14 we have 4 nurses at night with 1 aide. Right now the census is only at 7 with one pt filling that "stepdown" criteria (she's on dobutamine). There are three nurses at night for the res...

5. Question about internal defibs

   Marnaby replied to Antikigirl's topic in Cardiac

   I work on a cardiac stepdown unit and a majority of my patients have ICD's and PM's. I actually have taken care of a woman for the past few days who's ICD shocked her 27 times in one day (needless to say that's why she came to the hospital). I say t...

6. ASU vs GCU

   Marnaby replied to maneses's topic in Arizona

   I graduated from ASU in Dec of 2003. I just had a discussion with some nursing friends about the benefit of going to ASU versus a community college. While we agree that the community college students have wonderful practical skills we believe that AS...

7. Has anyone used Natrecor on their unit?

   Marnaby replied to maryangel's topic in Cardiac

   I work on a 12 bed cardiac stepdown unit (4:1 days, eves, and nights) and Natrecor is the most popular gtt next to Heparin here. I float between this floor and a 32 bed post-procedure (mostly caths) floor. Both floors take Natrecor and we bolus and...

8. Glendale Community College

   Marnaby replied to GlendaleStudent's topic in Arizona

   GlendaleStudent- That's what I meant to say, but you said if for me. Thanks for clearing up some of the confusion. Good luck to all at GCC! :)

9. Glendale Community College

   Marnaby replied to GlendaleStudent's topic in Arizona

   thrashej- Patho was a pre-req that I had to take at GCC before applying to the professional nursing program at ASU. Cullinan use to teach Patho back then. I'm not sure if she does it now. I think that the GCC program includes Patho in their actu...

10. St. Joes NICU

    Marnaby replied to texan's topic in Arizona

    If you meet a nurse by the name of Brianna Brady tell her Marnie says hi. We went to nursing school together and we were in the same learning community. Good luck with the rotation! :)

11. Glendale Community College

    Marnaby replied to GlendaleStudent's topic in Arizona

    I went to GCC a couple of years ago before transfering to ASU for the nursing program. I had Cullinan for my patho class and she was great. At the time the class was a little overwhelming, but that's patho for you. We took plenty of notes and her ...

12. St. Joes NICU

    Marnaby replied to texan's topic in Arizona

    I did my leadership/managment portion of my Senior II semester in the NICU at St. Joe's. I loved it there!!! All of the nurses were very helpful and the environment was fun. They have a Level III trauma NICU (they take the sickest of the sick). I...

13. Slow forum! Anyone have any experience with St. Joe's?

    Marnaby replied to klone's topic in Arizona

    I did a rotation in the NICU at St. Joe's and I loved it! All of the nurses were fun and really helpful. I toured the OB floors and watched a couple of c-sections and vaginal births. The nurses on those floors were great as well. It would be a gr...

14. ASU Student-Help!

    Marnaby replied to IWannaBaBabyNurse's topic in Arizona

    You are very welcome! If you have any more questions let me know! :)

15. ASU Student-Help!

    Marnaby replied to IWannaBaBabyNurse's topic in Arizona

    I can tell you are smart and I haven't even met you! If someone were to drop out it would either be before the semester started, or after about the first month. You would definitely be able to fill a seat before the semester begins. After about a ...