care4you

care4you specializes in ER, Trauma, Advanced Care.

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1. Hospitals Hiring only Nurses with BSN Degree

   care4you replied to nlhnurse1982's topic in General Nursing

   hmm... i would like to disagree with you on the fact that there is a shortage of active rn's. i graduated with a class of 120 from a bsn program a little while back and know that there are still about 20 nurses that are still looking for full time po...

2. Ohio board of nursing should be ashamed

   care4you replied to Miss Tay's topic in Ohio

   had all of my paperwork in to the OBN by May 25th and was finally pending last monday... soo its been 7 business days and still NO ATT !!!!!! I have a few choice words for the OBN because this is getting crazy.... $200 paid for my paperwork to move h...

3. Nurses on strike-is it even possible?

   care4you replied to braddah's topic in General Nursing

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

4. Length of er orientation?

   care4you replied to SueNYC's topic in Emergency

   the orientation i am doing is 6 months, 1 week critical care floor, the rest is classroom/ER

5. 24 Things ER Nurses Know All Too Well

   care4you replied to RN_in_SC's topic in Emergency

   :hdvwl: "you are taking things way to serious.... we're having a little fun with the things we deal with all day... every day"

6. 24 Things ER Nurses Know All Too Well

   care4you replied to RN_in_SC's topic in Emergency

   :spbox::anbd:

7. What type of a nurse are you?

   care4you replied to CaLLaCoDe's topic in General Nursing

   "i would describe myself as one who remains calm during trials and i know that getting angry at any time only burns my candle out mighty quick. i am sometimes caught up in the tasks and not spending enough time seeing the entire gestalt of the goals ...

8. Nursing Tid Bits

   care4you replied to widi96's topic in General Nursing

   not sure where you went to college but we had to take chemistry

9. NCLEX-RN review book suggestion?

   care4you replied to AnnaC's topic in New Nurse

   the Saunders Comprehensive Review for the NCLEX-RN Examination (4th edition) is the BEST book out there.... atleast from what I have found. The book covers every body system, how to study, what to know, it also has color pictures and a CD with review...

10. Critical Care Podcasts

    care4you replied to mmutk's topic in MICU

    I also listen to these, they are very good

11. Largest ED in the US

    care4you replied to TeresaEDRN06's topic in Emergency

    the ER in Dayton ohio has about 100 beds and sees close to 150,000 pts a year. VERY BUSY:bugeyes:

12. Learning thread (ER medicine)

    care4you replied to TraumaInTheSlot's topic in Emergency

    I had a similar incident earlier this week in the ER. A patient came in who was determined to have a seizure (witnessed by paramedics) but was not postictal at all. He was aggressive and ****** off that they brought him to the hospital. Some response...

13. how to deal with a know-it-all?

    care4you replied to picurn10's topic in General Students

    Haha, I believe I would take a more direct route than mentioned above. Ignoring this type of person usually doesn't work. I would say, "I know you think your all that and a bag of chips, but I really don't need your help with this, if I need it in th...

14. Yet another IV question

    care4you replied to Dancin'Mom's topic in New Nurse

    i would suggest using the butterfly catheter instead of the straight. this would totally eliminate the chances of twisting the catheter and would give you a little more length to work with then attaching the tubing. just my two cents

15. Anyone Up For Random FACT THROWING??

    care4you replied to CrazyScrubNurse's topic in NCLEX

    -both systolic and diastolic blood pressures tend to increase with normal aging, but the elevation of the sytolic is greater. -Tachycardia is the major side effect of tocolytic drugs. (brethine, Yutopar) -Although Flagyl is the treatment of choice fo...