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Can you please describe what happens when "they blow" and how fast this can happen? What are the signs and symptoms of a blown PICC? Chest pain, SOB, etc?? Thanks :-)

Brownie3085, Thank you for your authentic and compassionate response to this thread. Happy to see nurses like you out there! :)

I am so glad for this post too. I went into nursing with a dream to one day weave Eastern Medicine and integrative modalities into my practice. There are pros and cons to both Western and Eastern...

OH MY!!!!! And I thought MY unit was bad! We are staffed 1:4 at nights with 1-2 CNAs, a resource RN, and we have a tele techs on a different floor that monitor all our pts and call if anything...

Congrats and good luck!! It looks like everyone already said what I was going to say. Take your ACLS and 12-lead EKG interpretation, know your labs as Minnie2006 indicated, know where your crash...

The same thing happens to me about 2-3 times a week. It looks like we even had the same dream at one point too (not passing meds and the shift is almost over). This week I dreamt that I floated to...

I would also be interested in knowing what city/hospital the OP was hired into. I've been running around getting certifications (NRP, ACLS), networking, talking to old professors, and looking all up...

Exactly. I would love to be an expert in all things perinatal, but without thorough training and orientation I would be concerned about patient safety and even the burden I would place on my...

Simply Complicated, The manager only said that I would only be training in L&D for a few months then move on, so I don't know what the time frames are for the other areas. I hope to find out...

Thanks for your thoughts klone! I was actually just going to go back and edit this post because I know that it really isn't 6 different areas because PACU and OR are apart of L&D. More like 2-3...

Hello All :) So I finally had the honor of interviewing on an L&D unit. I have been trying to get into Perinatal nursing for the past 5 months and I have just over one year of nursing experience....

Thank you all for your responses! This is all really helpful info :-)

Hello Everyone :-) Just curious how dayshift differs from nightshift on a L&D unit. How do the responsibilities differ for each shift? I work on a cardiac stepdown unit and nights are more...

Halinja, What branch of nursing did you eventually go into? I pray for a nursing job that I can be happy and have energy again, as you say.

Thanks so much for the encouragement and input! I really needed it after all the hunting and applying I've done this week, haha. That's so wonderful and inspiring that you love what you do :) I look...

That's part of the irony/problem! I AM in California. Everywhere I've looked in CA requires previous postpartum experience (i.e. no training programs). I am actually starting to look out of state...

I am astonished how difficult it has been to get into post-partum nursing. This I ALL I want to do and I am so frustrated :-( I have my NRP, ACLS (I know we don’t need it), Master’s Degree, a...

PLEASE can we switch jobs?!?!? I will trade you ANY day to do what you do. I am the exact opposite. I am a cardiac nurse and I deal with the sickest patients at the end of life. Antiarrhythmic...

Hi SatguruRN, I'm in a similar position right now. Really trying to get into maternal/child health nursing, but it is hard! I have cardiac, telemetry progressive care experience, but really want...

Thank you so much for posting about your experience. I'm on a PCU, tele unit and in a similar position I feel better that I am not alone here. You described exactly how I feel. Last week I had one...

Hi everyone, Could someone please tell me what cardiac holding room nurses do? I would guess that cardiovascular holding room nurses prep the patient for cath lab procedures?? Enlighten me :)

I had never heard of such a thing either, until I saw a job posting for an opening in this unit. Greygull~ Thanks for explaining! I guess it's exactly what it sounds like. Sort of like a DOU,...

Hi there! Hopefully this is the right forum to post in regarding trauma obs. I couldn't find much on Trauma Observation Units online and was wondering if anyone can tell me more about it? If...

Hello :) I have been working on a cardiac/telemetry unit for a year and would like to take a BREAK and move to a less stressful floor like a med-surg or pre-op surgery floor for a little while,...

I think the money is pretty good, but I don't have much to compare it to. I know that certain hospitals pay around $39/hr to start for new grads, AND the cost of living is cheaper than say LA or OC....