Good Luck Class Of 2006!!!!!!

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I am starting school this thursday, and I am about to burst at the seams with excitement!!!!! I know that excitement will soon change with the stress of school, but it will be well worth it! Good luck to all the beginning students. (& of course the not so new ones :p that have given us such great advice!!) :balloons:

AMEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Oh, my favorite: "We woke him up & he said he is in pain! You need to give him some pain medicine now!!":rolleyes:

Heehee, I like this thread. I can complain louder since I still AM in the unit! :)

How about when that plus-size unstable MRSA-er needs to go on a road trip? And there's not a travel monitor, a full O2 tank or a single O2 regulator to be found? You get down to MRI, you hook those 3+ drips up to seven extension sets, you do the scan, and when you get back to the unit someone tells you that they were supposed to do an MRI angio while you were down there and now you have to go back!!??

This happened to me last week. :chuckle:

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How could you forget visiting hours and all the associated pleasures? :uhoh3: Bring on the books!

"He needs his mouth swabbed NOW, he cant breath!"

WHAT???!!! Whe needs a stat mouth swab?

Although, I will have to take some of those oral swabs home so that I can swab my mouth with beer while I study! :chuckle

Good luck to all, and never forget the alternatives.

YOU GUYS ARE KILLIN ME....ESPECIALLY THE "STAT MOUTH SWAB"!!!

I HAD TO CUT AND PASTE AND SEND THIS TO MY CLASSMATES!!!! THANKS FOR THE MUCH NEEDED LAUGHS!!!!!!!!!:rotfl: :rotfl:

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You guys are hilarious!!!!!!!!! :rotfl: :rotfl:

The road trip-----aahhh....... I feel your pain - just happened to me as well- but we went to the wrong Ct scanner. Had to push a big boy in a big boy bed to the other side of the hospital than get back to the unit and patient #2 needs an MRI at 5:30pm. ( shift over in 2 hours).

Talk about miserable. :crying2:

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Specializes in Nurse Practitioner/CRNA Pain Mgmt.

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Specializes in Nurse Practitioner/CRNA Pain Mgmt.

We started school last August 16. We'll start patient intubations next week! Lots of information to remember and digest. What I have learned within this very short period of time is...DO NOT LET YOURSELF GET BEHIND. Commit yourselves to study hard like you've never studied before! Once you're in class, the academic rivalries are over and everyone is treated equally, regardless of your acute care background. Stick together as a group and help each other get through any hurdle.

Goodluck ya'll, and CONGRATULATIONS!

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On my 2nd to last day my patient was on like 15 gtts and ended up dying, after placing bilateral chest tubes for pneumo prophylaxis d/t peep 36(absolutely ridiculous!), coding 5 times, emergency dialysis for potassium of 7 (prisma wasn't doing it for him), all the while having the surgeon tell the family he could make it through it!!!! On my last day of work I ended up in the ER after 3 hours of work ( I was extremely sick this summer), what a great end to my job. It's kinda funny that since I started school I've been fine. Personally though, I will miss the hugely lazy obese patients who think it's your job to move them in any way ( "I can't breathe!" "Well sir, that's because you have fifteen layers of fat on your chest and you won't move, but I see you have no problem moving to shovel that tray of food down your mouth")

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You describe the ICU so, so well. LOL, good luck to all of you!

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