MedicFireRN

MedicFireRN has 7 years experience and specializes in Emergency Department, ICU.

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1. Starting Excelsior's MSN - Education

   MedicFireRN replied to Lunah's topic in Excelsior

   DNTcode- I am in the RN to MSN with a focus in Informatics. I have completed the BSN portion, so I have 6 classes left to finish for the MSN portion. I have taken 3 to 4 courses per semester while working full time. I have had a decent school/life ba...

2. Grad schools accept ec?

   MedicFireRN replied to Kelly_bean's topic in Excelsior

   Yes, this is true for a few particular schools, Tx Wesleyan being one of them. I have been casually looking into CRNA programs as an option for the future; I'm an EC ADN grad, currently in the BSN capstone at EC (I am doing their combined RN-BSN-MSN ...

3. Hello!

   MedicFireRN replied to h3summers's topic in Excelsior

   I too entered the program as a medic. I graduated in the fall of 2015. I worked in the ED as a nurse until March of this year when I switched to ICU. I am currently doing one of EC's RN to MSN programs with a specialization in nursing informatics. I ...

4. Got my reschedule date

   MedicFireRN replied to emtpbill's topic in Excelsior

   Good luck, Bill! I have enjoyed reading your progress on here; though I haven't been a very active poster in recent years :)

5. Community Health Nursing - NUR 448

   MedicFireRN replied to JDRN16's topic in Excelsior

   I hear you, CHN was definitely a time sucker. I too worked full time and took another course while taking CHN, so it is doable (albeit exhausting). Have you picked a place for your clinical hours? PixieRN is right, the clinical hours requirement is ...

6. CEN 2016!

   MedicFireRN replied to Lev's topic in Emergency

   I am taking the CEN in 10 days! Eeek!!

7. Excelsior LPN RN Florida

   MedicFireRN replied to MsFeli's topic in Excelsior

   I was wondering if anyone has completed Excelsior's LPN to RN program? yes, many have. I am one of these many :) How was it? Did you do the traditional classes or the self study ones? It is nursing school. It is no walk in the park but it is doable. ...

8. Need the real truth. Are all EDs like this?

   MedicFireRN replied to JR81's topic in Emergency

   It's very typical. Our hospital is 1:4 but our sister hospitals are 1:5 in the ED. I worked at one hospital where the ratio was 1:3 for all patients except ESI 1's-2's which were 1:1 or 1:2, but the nurses there complain about the pay because it's le...

9. Excelsior MSN

   MedicFireRN replied to Fairy1's topic in Excelsior

   Community has a clinical component required now; It's really only observation in a public health setting, but the requirement is something like 40 hours. Just keep that in mind if you're trying another 8 week at the same time.

10. Paramedic and nurse?

    MedicFireRN replied to Sirena_615's topic in Emergency

    this hits the nail on the head. Also both, recently stopped working as a medic although I still am one. I love both, but nursing pays way better and has better advancement opportunities, plus more diverse options for the future.

11. What's your triage protocol?

    MedicFireRN replied to MedicFireRN's topic in Emergency

    Yeah, if we had more techs I could see it being more practical; but we often only have 1 tech; on a good day we have 2 techs for the entire ED from 11a-11p.

12. What's your triage protocol?

    MedicFireRN replied to MedicFireRN's topic in Emergency

    Well it's been a miserable few weeks with no sign of change

13. What's your triage protocol?

    MedicFireRN posted a topic in Emergency

    Hey everybody! I'm curious, how does triage work in your department with your patients that walk in to be seen (so excluding ambulances)? My hospital is doing a new thing where the triage nurse out front does not triage the patient at all unless ther...

14. RN To BSN :)

    MedicFireRN replied to MedicFireRN's topic in Excelsior

    I plan on switching to the RN to MSN track in August when the new catalog goes into effect; I have been taking classes with that aim since enrolling in January :) So when you're done I hope I will be done with the BSN portion and working on the MSN b...

15. Order of preference for sedation?

    MedicFireRN replied to rhkenji's topic in Emergency

    One of the big things to consider here is your facility's policies on titration. IMO, because of how they want us to titrate versed vs. how we can titrate propofol, I usually get much better sedation out of propofol than from versed. Versed we're onl...