RNmaria

RNmaria has 5 years experience.

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1. mistakes made during your first year...

   RNmaria replied to RNmaria's topic in New Nurse

   After some time you will hear pumps and SCD's on other floors! LOL

2. mistakes made during your first year...

   RNmaria replied to RNmaria's topic in New Nurse

   What about when you just push Dilantin IV, can you?

3. Will I survive this?

   RNmaria replied to Imgettingthere's topic in Neuro

   Hello. I feel your pain. I am now 45 and 1 year ago I was hired on for a new unit that was to open. In the meantime I did orientation in the ICU and was given pts that I should expect to see in the new step-down unit (hemodynamiclly unstable, art l...

4. mistakes made during your first year...

   RNmaria posted a topic in New Nurse

   I have been on my "own" now for 1 1/2 months and was just wondering if anybody out there has made any mistakes. I have been beating myself up over some things and just wondering if anyone else has done the same? pasha

5. O2 is 81, what shoud you do?

   RNmaria replied to victorsunshine's topic in Neuro

   First of all...what else is going on with this patient? Always check the ABC's first...and is that a real SPO2? BP? Begin with the basics...put on nasal cannula...how low is low? Is it sudden? What meds are they on? Right, I wouldn't start baggi...

6. NH State Licensing

   RNmaria replied to kelbh's topic in New Hampshire

   Fot he most accurate of information, I would suggest calling the NH Board of Nursing directly. Lucily I missed the fingerprint thing last year. But I understand it can be a lengthly process and would get on it quickly. Best of luck, Pasha

7. My Confidence Is Shot--need Help Overcoming Fear

   RNmaria replied to SunnyBeach_RN's topic in New Nurse

   Hey girlfriend Chloe! You need some time to process everything. Give yourself a break...keep busy for afew days doing mindless stuff and take care of yourself and then start looking for anew job. It sounds like they screwed you over and you fell i...

8. My Confidence Is Shot--need Help Overcoming Fear

   RNmaria replied to SunnyBeach_RN's topic in New Nurse

   Yes, I too had a similar experience. I was hired for an step-down unit, which was not opened yet, and trained on the ICU. Well, the step-down unit opened-up, and although the ratio was 1:2 - 1:3...it waas still a bit much for me. It was very fast-p...

9. PCA and PTT

   RNmaria replied to RNmaria's topic in Med-Surg

   Thank you! pasha :-)

10. PCA and PTT

    RNmaria replied to RNmaria's topic in Med-Surg

    First of all thank you for your reply! This pt had a AAA repair and they wanted to pull the PCA when the INR was at a therapeutic level... It wan't until after I posted that I finally made the connection...thank you for all of your help! pasha :-)

11. PCA and PTT

    RNmaria replied to RNmaria's topic in Med-Surg

    Opps...sorry it was the INR

12. PCA and PTT

    RNmaria posted a topic in Med-Surg

    Hello! Could someone tell me the significance of monitoring a patient's PTT while on a PCA? pasha :-)

13. when do you stop bringing work home?

    RNmaria replied to ava'smomRN's topic in New Nurse

    Thanks for your thoughts! I just started a new thread on this. I am a new grad (May 07), started a NRP program in Ocober and precepted in the ICU for a step-down unit. Well our unit is finally open and I am off orientatation, and on a new unit. I...

14. bringing work home...

    RNmaria posted a topic in New Nurse

    Hello! I am a new grad who is currently off orientation (from ICU) and now on a step-down unit. I find that on my days off I cannot stop thinking about the patients I had. I begin to conjure-up situations/conditions that I may have missed etc... o...

15. Made a med check error -- feel terrible

    RNmaria replied to SoundofMusic's topic in New Nurse

    I too feel your anxiety. I am a new grad (May 07) and began my carreer in a large teaching hospital in October. I trained on the ICU for a step-down unit that just recently opened. We are now OFF orientation and I have to say that it is scary. My...