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  1. How to get into ICU?

    And you say this based on what? Not to mention that ICUs are not always "the sickest of the sick." New grads should not be hired into level 1, extremely high acuity ICUs the vast majority of the time, but the vast majority of ICUs are not that. Even ...
  2. How to get into ICU?

    You apply. I don't understand these kind of threads I see sometimes. There is no magic formula or secret to it. Even getting your ACLS or any other certification besides BLS is not strictly necessary, might help a little bit but many people wait and ...
  3. Don't Risk Your Job Over Social Media

    So now you are not allowed to be a nurse and "blatantly sexy"? Let's just go back to wearing white caps and dresses and stockings. Posting a revealing photo of yourself at a party is "hard to reconcile with a responsible nurse in scrubs"? There is li...
  4. Has anyone overmedicated a pt?

    Are you sure she actually had asystole? I never trust any of those monitors, check for the pulse if you're going to call it asystole. Sounds like your patient was snowed for a bit by pain medication, it happens all the time. The only relevant vital s...
  5. People are able to hate bedside nursing for whatever reason they want. Spare us your first year nursing student holier-than-thou attitude on the matter. People become nurses to take care of people, they hate being nurses because of unsafe ratios, ung...
  6. Flotrac Sensor

    Thank you about the inotrope comment, I wasn't completely aware of that and will look into it. I was moreso joking about the OR numbers thing to an extent. Our trauma residents have a constant battle with OR about this. While I can see the advantage...
  7. Increasing Press Gainey Scores

    Not to be rude but did you just say 1:3 ratio is inadequate for telemetry patients? Even the California union-mandated ratios call for 1:4 or 1:5. No hospital can afford to literally double their nursing staff to give everyone that easy of an assignm...
  8. Flotrac Sensor

    We utilize the Flotrac in my STICU as an easy method of determining hemodynamics just using an art line. For instance we can determine fluid deficits/response to fluid challenges using SVV or CVP (though I've been told recent studies show CVP is an u...