KayRN910

KayRN910 has 1 years experience and specializes in ER.

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1. CHOA interview process..

   KayRN910 replied to JoonSusanna's topic in Georgia

   Yes! You are totally on the right track. It's very heavy on growth and development, and the disorders it does have are almost all pediatric specific! Good luck!!! Which campus did you interview at?!

2. CHOA interview process..

   KayRN910 replied to JoonSusanna's topic in Georgia

   I work at choa! Getting to that step is awesome. The wouldn't test you if they didn't like you. Just make sure u study!! It's not easy (obviously not impossible or crazy difficult, but it's very pediatric specific) good luck and congrats!

3. 5 things you wish you knew as a new nurse

   KayRN910 replied to Bugs20091's topic in New Nurse

   I wish I would've realized that even after 3 years, some days I will feel like a terrible nurse, and others I will feel like a great nurse. As I say at work, 'some days you are the bug, some days you are the shoe'. It's so true every time I go to wor...

4. CHOA Peds test.. what it's like!

   KayRN910 replied to KayRN910's topic in Georgia

   Dont be nervous! It's hard to tell somebody how to study for it, because it's basically pediatric NCLEX questions! Just know your pediatric specific disorders (not anything too crazy), and what is important to kiddos assessment wise. (Eating, peeing,...

5. Dream job...no longer my dream job??

   KayRN910 replied to HopefulRN2010's topic in General Nursing

   Surprised to see this post because I remember when you posted that you got the job, you were so happy! (I've been away from the site a while... the new job and starting school has been a handful for me lately!) Have you thought about trying to float ...

6. CHOA Peds test.. what it's like!

   KayRN910 replied to KayRN910's topic in Georgia

   Yeyyyy!!!!!!! SO excited for you!!!!! I hope it's awesome!!! So far it's great, everybody is really nice. Hopefully my good vibes sent your way helped a little, at least. :)

7. Electronic Stethescope. Yay? or Nay?

   KayRN910 replied to I_See_You_RN's topic in CRNA

   A friend of mine has one and loves it. She can hear things I can't with a regular one. She has hearing problems and can't use a regular steth. But, she did get it swiped by family members when she layed it down to do a procedure in the ER and forgot ...

8. get ER wait times on your phone ?

   KayRN910 replied to Trekfan's topic in General Nursing

   Well, theres not really a secret to it other than we work our butts off! Our docs have a ton of pressure to keep their "greet times" down, so they put the pressure on us to get workups done and people discharged/admitted. We also triage in the rooms ...

9. get ER wait times on your phone ?

   KayRN910 replied to Trekfan's topic in General Nursing

   Yeah, I work for an ER that does this! It's an average over the last 4 hours thats generated by the computer based on when our docs "sign up" for the patients on the system. A lot of people ask me if we change it or whatever... but nope! It's all com...

10. Things you've had to do to get care done...

    KayRN910 replied to xtxrn's topic in General Nursing

    My grandmother had a stroke a few months ago, and even though she was mostly A&O, her language was so fowl for about a month afterwards during rehab! She had a foley in and did NOT like it, and would ask anybody who came in the room,"Are you goin...

11. The Right Way to Collect a Urine Specimen from a Patients with an Indwelling Catheter

    KayRN910 replied to thehipcrip's topic in General Nursing

    I agree with the poster above. The fresher the better. I have even unhooked it and let it drain in a sterile cup before. However, I do disagree with your *gasp!* about learning from the patient. In the ER, people come with all sorts of things we aren...

12. What position should I apply for??

    KayRN910 replied to NurseB_'s topic in Georgia

    I dont know that exact hospital, but I would think about what makes you want to work in L&D. Is it the relationship you form with your patient? Go med surg The babies, and possibly kiddos? Go ER Having mostly healthy patients till you get one tha...

13. CHOA Peds test.. what it's like!

    KayRN910 replied to KayRN910's topic in Georgia

    How did it go?!?! Met the educator for there today - super, super nice!

14. Your one stop for all the most popular pressing questions on allnurses!

    KayRN910 replied to NeoPediRN's topic in General Nursing

    That thread has had almost 32,000 views!! That's a lot of views for those boobies! :) (I like when she says... "I couldn't pass the pencil test (even if there were a dozen pencils...)" HAHA.

15. When is a patient your patient?

    KayRN910 replied to shannonFNP's topic in Emergency

    We have implemented this system for the last year or so and actually works pretty well, unless the doc gets in there at the same time you do to triage (they push our docs on their patient greet times, so they are on your heels most of the time). We s...