Critical Care-Bear

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1. Competency Guidelines?

   Critical Care-Bear posted a topic in General Students

   Hello, I'm wondering if there are any sort of competency guidelines or rules for the competency testing that is done in nursing courses. My situation is this: I was doing a competency for a nursing skills course in which I had to demonstrate gowning,...

2. Critical care internship...

   Critical Care-Bear replied to nursing 101's topic in MICU

   Where did you guys find out about hospitals that offer such training programs. I live in Orange County NY, I guess I could live in Long Island for a while. I was hoping to find a program around here or in upstate NY (around Albany) since hospitals ar...

3. NP before CRNA, or straight to CRNA?

   Critical Care-Bear replied to Critical Care-Bear's topic in NP

   You're probably right elkpark. I didn't mean to raise any red flags or annoy you. It's just kinda scary for me with all the stigma's associated with being a new nurse. I was hoping to bypass this by more education and what not, but nothing really com...

4. NP before CRNA, or straight to CRNA?

   Critical Care-Bear replied to Critical Care-Bear's topic in NP

   I took this qoute from a previous thread found in this forum titled, "NP or CRNA." It raised an interesting point that a lot of people have brought up regarding the benefits of being an NP. Let's take a look ...

5. NP before CRNA, or straight to CRNA?

   Critical Care-Bear replied to Critical Care-Bear's topic in NP

   Thanks for the advice everyone. I think you're right katyosu2006 -- I didn't take into consideration that an NP's role in the ICU would be different than an RN's. CRNA schools stress the ICU experience. ER or PCU experience is not acceptable to them....

6. NP before CRNA, or straight to CRNA?

   Critical Care-Bear posted a topic in NP

   Hello, Maybe you NP's can help with this (I wasn't too sure where else to post this): I'm currently a 25 year old male in a BSN program and my goal is to ultimatlety become a CRNA (or MDA, as I would go the medical route if I got accepted to med scho...

7. Nursing Diagnosis?

   Critical Care-Bear replied to Critical Care-Bear's topic in General Students

   Thanks student4ever. Haha I wasn't too offended though about the remark. My school is actually gonna let me start the nurse practitioner program before I finish my BSN because I already have a BS in Bio. I just don't understand why or how it's a whol...

8. Nursing Diagnosis?

   Critical Care-Bear posted a topic in General Students

   Hello, I got into an argument with my physical assessment lab instructor and I want some feedback. Okay, we did the "ear, nose, throat" lab last week and my partners tonsils were swollen, she said her throat was sore and complained she wasn't feeling...

9. Owning your own practice?

   Critical Care-Bear posted a topic in NP

   Hello, I was going to go into the CRNA field but now I'm considering the NP route. A girl in my class (BSN program) mentioned that she was going to go the NP route. She mentioned that NP's make the most out of nurses and I told her that CRNA's make ...

10. Knocked out from cough med?

    Critical Care-Bear replied to JVanRN's topic in General Nursing

    Tussionex is a brand of cough medicine manufactured by celltech and it is widely regarded as "the best" cough medicine. The active ingredients are Hydrocodone and Chlorpheniramine. Hydrocodon is an opioid agonist and is also known as vicodin, lortab,...

11. I can't do this.

    Critical Care-Bear replied to NicInNC's topic in General Students

    I don't know if this would help, but a doctor told me to get a prescription for xanax because I'm in a similar predicament. While I don't have kids, I work ful-time and go to school full-time days. I also commute too. He said he took it during med sc...