gospa

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1. Would you still become a NP or would you go the MD route?

   gospa replied to OrangeSN's topic in NP

   LOLOL. 2 terms of complete fluff organic chem while real men like you took "real" classes. You're the biggest troll I've ever seen online. Great for laughs. Thanks for letting the rest of know we are the little people.

2. Would you still become a NP or would you go the MD route?

   gospa replied to OrangeSN's topic in NP

   Why don't you tell us? Most bachelor's degrees in nursing in my area require organic chem.

3. Why have you decided to become a NP and not a Doctor?

   gospa replied to Lightning90's topic in NP

   double post

4. Why have you decided to become a NP and not a Doctor?

   gospa replied to Lightning90's topic in NP

   I would go to medical school but I'm 42 and don't want to finish residencies when I am 50 and have more than $500K in loans plus interest and lost income for the years not working while in medical school. I work in emergency medicine and for what it'...

5. Need pedi rotation for FNP

   gospa posted a topic in NP Students

   Hello colleagues, I had a preceptorship fall through today and am looking for a pedi rotation of 7 weeks or 112 hours in the Providence/Boston area. I attend Simmons College, which claims to find preceptors for students, but cannot always do so. An...

6. Hotel for day sleep for 3rd shifter?

   gospa replied to gospa's topic in Travel

   Ned what do you mean "you will have to prorate your per diem to only the days away from home." My stipend does not show divisions such that this much is for food, this much is for gasoline, this much is lodging. How would I prorate to only the two d...

7. Hotel for day sleep for 3rd shifter?

   gospa posted a topic in Travel

   Hi all. I am taking my first contract RN job in Boston. It is 70 miles from home and I will be working 12 hour shifts overnight weekends only. So I will stay at the hotel on the weekend and then drive home for the week. My question is, for lodging ar...

8. What was the MOST ridiculous thing a patient came to the ER for?

   gospa replied to JUSTYSMOM's topic in Emergency

   Here's a good one. Few months back, someone comes in by EMS for dizzyness. When did it start? "Someone rang my doorbell at 10 p.m. and when I opened the door there was a brownie on the ground. I ate it and I've felt really weird since." Who the heck ...

9. where else do ER nurses go?

   gospa replied to rearviewmirror's topic in Emergency

   Most of our ED nurses leave for PACU or cath lab.

10. I start in the ER next week!

    gospa replied to MedicFireRN's topic in Emergency

    I was an ER tech then did medsurg RN then returned HOME to the ED. You'll do fine. Read books, take notes, ask questions of both Drs and RNs. Also I find it pretty important to be a great teammate. I help my team nurses to the max. When you can, make...

11. Where do I belong?

    gospa replied to Jrhemming's topic in Emergency

    Weird to me that you are "annoyed" by lower acuity patients. Especially for a newer RN? You should learn all you can from all your patients including lower acuity. There are always things to learn from each case, esp for a newer RN. And even more so ...

12. "Bleed" an IV line

    gospa replied to gospa's topic in Emergency

    Thanks all. I didn't even know there was a policy for draining a portion of the insulin bag. But I searched and found we do. It's 50cc. Seems silly to me to fill 100 units of insulin in a 100 bag and then waste half the entire bag. But if that's what...

13. New to ER

    gospa replied to eacu's topic in Emergency

    It is good that you want to read and learn. Too many nurses I've seen are cocky and figure they know it all or will remember it all without writing anything down. A brilliant resident I work with takes notes every shift for things he did not know or ...

14. "Bleed" an IV line

    gospa replied to gospa's topic in Emergency

    So I read that study but am still unclear on what I would do differently. I will look into policy. But policy aside, for theoretical purpose: I put 100 units regular insulin into 100 cc bag. I prime it so that the insulin reaches the end of the line ...

15. Newbie in ER, feeling hopeless

    gospa replied to MsPebbles's topic in Emergency

    Pebbles I am sorry to read about your experience. U may well be cut out for emergency nursing but it seems that you are not set up for success currently. I help precept occasionally and I would never treat someone like your preceptor is treating u. T...