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Although Acute Dialysis in the ICU could be considered Critical Care, considering that most Acute Dialysis nurses have ICU experience.

My partner had to give up drinking milk, which she loved and had every night, because she would just cough and cough and cough afterwards, and was forever clearing her throat. Since she gave up milk...

yes it is normal. [color=#333333]anemia is common in people with kidney disease. healthy kidneys produce a hormone called erythropoietin which stimulates the bone marrow to produce the proper number...

Honey, just do it. Choose a path and follow it. Fear is natural and normal but if it stops you realizing your dreams then it's getting in the way. What a shame if you prevented yourself from doing...

I have my CDN. I took it because I was Clinical Coordinator of an acute unit and I thought I should have it. I studied hard for about 3 months using the Core Curriculum and also the Mometrix...

Thanks for that. Brought back some brilliant memories, I still have my silver belt buckle...it was in the shape of a giant safety pin! Still remember wearing hats and a cape! I do prefer being a...

I'm in the ICU. There's nothing I love more than having a really sick intubated patient on 20 different drips and coming in and rerouting all the lines, anally untangling them, labeling them and...

I earn over $80,000 a year in the CICU, with NO overtime. Just straight hours. And yes, I have 20 years of experience.

It's not the regular Essentials that you plug into the wall outlet, it's an organic oil burner. I can't use those artificial ones as the perfumes give me a headache. I only use natural oils. It plugs...

If I'm in a good mood I'll play some loud music, usually Heavy Metal to get me in the mood to work all night. If I don't feel good or I have PMS I'll play New Age music and I have a plug-in essential...

I qualified in England and had to get my transcripts evaluated. You have to get your transcripts translated into "American" by a recognized body. I used AACRAO but there are a couple different ones...

I've been an Acute Dialysis Nurse for 5 years, and also work in Critical Care. We do it all the time. I've given 2 units in about that timeframe, but only if the Hct is low, the lungs are clear, and...

Thank you all for your suggestions and your links. I shall definitely check them out. I've never done Algebra before so this is very challenging to me. I come from another country where we didn't do...

Thanks, that makes me feel better. I will have to do Statistics, but not at the Community College, as they don't have the class I need, so it will be at the University.

I am a 20-yr veteran ICU RN that has decided to go back to school to do my BSN. I have been accepted at a great University and am planning on doing some general Ed classes at a local community...

I don't like kids. I don't think they're cute, I don't go goo goo ga ga over babies, in fact I run the other way. I only worked in the ED once because they had a seperate Peds ER and I got to look...

I once worked in a small ICU in England, only 7 beds, and the pts were all 1:1 as is the policy in England, so there were plenty of staff. We took turns every night to take long breaks and cover for...

$5 for nights, $7.50 for weekend nights. With differential I take home $42/hr (or $44.50 on weekends)

The Paleo diet is about as far from "fad" as you can get. It's the way man has been eating for thousands of years before the advent of processed junk, fake food and high fructose corn syrup. I...

I switch it up a lot. I go to the gym on my nights off if I can, usualy late at night. I walk the dogs 2 to 3 miles most days, and in the winter when it gets dark early i do that as soon as I get up...

I am prescribed Dilaudid for stage 4 Endometriosis after 3 surgeries left me in constant chronic pain. It's funny but I am a very active person, I run, lift weights, go to the gym, but my job causes...

In Connecticut here. So grateful I'm off for two days. I can't imagine how awful it must be out there. The wind is whipping around my house. Be careful folks!

I'd be checking those chest tubes more than once an hour. If you get a serious bleeder they can put out several hundred ccs in a matter of minutes and everything will suddenly take a very bad turn. I...

I love Rock music and I'm a nurse...pretty straight forward. I also sing in a Heavy Metal band and metal music is my life. My usual sign on is Rockgurl, and has been for the past 10 years, but for...

I kind of take offense to this. I am a foreign born nurse, and your Government begged me to come over with all kinds of incentives because of the "nursing shortage" at the time. I have 20 years...