millkay

millkay has 4 years experience and specializes in ICU, CCU & PCCU/TELEMETRY.

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1. interview weakness & strength

   millkay replied to abstract30's topic in General Nursing

   Some weaknesses may include ill preparation, inappropriate dress, arriving late, and verbal negativity regarding your current or past employers. Even if the interview is stressful or confrontational, interviewees must stay calm and beware not to get...

2. students, is our future in jeopardy?

   millkay replied to dfk's topic in SRNA

   I always thought you had to be a mature and intelligent adult to make it into med school. That's what I get for thinking!!! these idiots bring shame to the whole lot of them.

3. Sleeping on the job..acceptable or not?

   millkay replied to travelnurse63's topic in General Nursing

   Not to keep the antagonizing going on and on and on, but I am with those who believe it is wrong to sleep at work. I'm a night-shifter, too. That having been said, I once took a phenergan before leaving for work, by accident of course. My husband g...

4. chart auditing

   millkay replied to jonear2's topic in General Nursing

   I to you Dorimar for finding a way to get out of doing those audits. I also worked in a unit where we were required to do audits, one per month. We filled out a sheet on things that we found that were not up to par and turned it in to the superviso...

5. Sedation Protocols for Intubated Patients

   millkay replied to Stormy's topic in MICU

   Unfortunately, it takes some time for even evidence based practices to trickle to some facilities, namingly rural areas- not that the right things aren't being one. I've experienced a recent situation where orders for sedation and vent bundles are d...

6. Diluting IVP meds

   millkay replied to maolin's topic in MICU

   After 4 years in ICU I still dilute some meds for IVP, especially Ativan, which is incredibly hard to manage while in a oily, pasty state. 5ml doesn't make that great of a fluid volume issue with most adult patients. I could understand if it was to b...

7. Wouldn't you consider this stealing???

   millkay replied to LoriAlabamaRN's topic in General Nursing

   This is hilarious! :cheers: I may just use it at home, at work, in my car.....where not only co-workers can walk off with things, but so do my kids and husband. But that's another story.

8. ICU Skills checklist as part of my resume?

   millkay replied to SteveNNP's topic in SRNA

   While we've strayed to the subject, anything the school recommends that you do, you need to do. Otherwise you tell them that your are not willing to do whatever it takes to get into the program. Last year I made a good GRE score, got an interview, b...

9. Agency Experience?

   millkay replied to 2ndChance's topic in SRNA

   I am currently working agency in ICU areas only, and making application to NA schools. At one interview I had last year, I got a little flustered (hopefully not noticeably so) because I had worked in more than one unit and the interviewer viewed it ...

10. GRE Dilemma

    millkay replied to BEN_RN12's topic in SRNA

    I'm not sure how you studied, but the first time I took the GRE, I got the Princeton Review book, which had tips on how to take the test, how to look at and read the questions, and had practice forms for the writing portion. I got a decent score the...

11. Second time around

    millkay replied to millkay's topic in SRNA

    Thanks for the encouragement. You can bet that I'll keep on trying until someone lets me in. This is what I want to do with my life and I'll make sure the schools know I won't give up.:)

12. I got fired!

    millkay replied to zoeintx's topic in General Nursing

    I worked as charge nurse in an ICU and was written up on several occasions 1) for asking the aide to help with a bath, 2) for asking the unit clerk if she would stock syringes, and 3) finally for asking a nurse to help transfer a new patient from the...

13. Who's applied or is planning to apply this summer?

    millkay replied to piper_for_hire's topic in SRNA

    I'm applying (again) to Newman University and Texas Wesleyan. I'll be sending apps by the end of this week, got the references and other things done. The deadlines aren't until December, but last year I had already interviewed at TWU by then. The be...

14. Is there still a chance?

    millkay replied to millkay's topic in SRNA

    No, in the end I didn't get in. Getting ready to apply again. Tex Wes makes it faily easy to do. :) I've got one more year of ICU experience and 100+ more CEU's. Maybe this will be my year.

15. Second time around

    millkay posted a topic in SRNA

    Maybe I'm the only one, or the only one dumb enough to post, but I interviewed at 3 schools this past year after having applied to 4 and didn't get accepted to any of them. So I'm a second-time-arounder. After all the time, effort, and energy I put ...