pitt81

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1. CRNA Loan Repayment

   pitt81 replied to s.wizzleteats's topic in CRNA

   Hey you could look into army reserve. They are actively looking for CRNA's.They have loan replacement and might even give you a stipend for school. I look into it after school. Really wanted to do it but with a wife and kids it was a little bit too m...

2. MD was angry I questioned him.

   pitt81 replied to ella2990's topic in General Nursing

   Great job!! Nurses like you save lives. Nurses are the front line in medicine and all nurses know that we are literally the difference between good or bad outcomes. Kudos for not being intimidated by the MD.

3. Religious accommodation means no Saturdays....ever?

   pitt81 replied to momto6msn's topic in General Nursing

   As religious nurse I also could not work Saturdays. However I ended up working every Sunday of the month.Even though I did my weekends they're still were some nurses who did resent the fact that I do not do any Saturdays even though I did my share of...

4. Chem requirements for admission

   pitt81 replied to MGoldRN's topic in SRNA

   I went to school in ct and that 1st chem class was pretty tough. I personally would not take any shortcuts and take all the classes. The first semester of crna school is pretty stressful and you can some what alleviate that stress by having a strong ...

5. Why Do Nurses Quit?

   pitt81 replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

   I totally agree with you. Part of the stress of being a new nurse is prioritizing what to do first. Perhaps this new grad felt it was more important to give another patients there scheduled meds and felt the IV could wait. I am not saying that what s...

6. Why Do Nurses Quit?

   pitt81 replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

   I totally agree with you. Part of the stress of being a new nurse is prioritizing what to do first. Perhaps this new grad felt it was more important to give another patients there scheduled meds and felt the IV could wait. I am not saying that what s...

7. Why Do Nurses Quit?

   pitt81 replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

   ""If I took report and this was the situation you'd bet I would say something very directly to the nurse who was sooooo busy. We could debate this all day long I suppose but I still think it's a poor example of an unfriendly environment." I think ope...

8. Why are Nurses and CNAs so mean/rude

   pitt81 replied to guest05/03/16's topic in Relations

   Um not really around 90% of the nurses and cna's I worked with are the most compassionate people I know. Nurses and techs are overworked underpaid and unrecognized posts like this just put the nursing profession in a bad light. I think it is were yo...

9. Very, Very Bad Week

   pitt81 replied to NurseGirl525's topic in General Students

   Hi, I am so sorry for your loss. When I was a student in an accelerated program, my wife delivered a stillborn baby at 39 week. There were no complications what so ever and there were no warning signs to why this happened. It was crazy hard to get up...

10. Nursing school too hard on purpose?

    pitt81 replied to fangirl's topic in General Students

    I can say from my experience that not all schools are like that. My schooling was great. My professors were on top of us and expected a lot from but they were very supportive. Also not all nurses don't give students the time of day, In my unit we we...

11. University of Pitt CRNA program

    pitt81 replied to jae05e's topic in SRNA

    I am also still waiting I guess they still need to make some phone calls since we did not getour rejection letter via e mail.

12. Alleghany Valley Anesthesia any idea?

    pitt81 replied to ICUsupanrse's topic in SRNA

    The program has the highest attritation level that I know of. Also I have coworkers who interviewed there and they say it was brutal interview.

13. PAWP

    pitt81 replied to LNRN11's topic in CCU

    In my CICU in seems that every chf pt we get has a swan and we get number q6h along with a wedge i always wonderd if that is outdated or just a different way to practice.

14. Staffing & Patient Acuity

    pitt81 replied to tk0224's topic in CCU

    1:2 with IABP last week I somehow ended up with two( stable) pt both with IABP. I had alot of charting but otherwise it was fine.

15. Ever have the spike come out from a hanging bag of blood?

    pitt81 replied to Billy_Ruben's topic in General Nursing

    I once had got the wrong tubing for blood, I realized that before I hung the blood, so I got the right type of tubing and somehow between unspiking the old (but not used) tubing like 20 cc of blood poured. It looked like a blood bath, all over the I...