thevez17

thevez17

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  1. Bad situation and mad coworker? What could I have done?

    You did your part while working, now it's time for her to do hers. They can stay mad but being mad will not benefit the patient at all.
  2. Code Team

    RRT nurse?
  3. It's almost summer! What are your plans?

    pass CCRN
  4. Being a pre-med is so overated

    Nursing is a tough job, doctors think, we do the job for the most part and carry their orders. I hope doctors will have a rotation with a specific nurse and shadow them atleast once in their medical school career or life cause we work closely with do...
  5. Is this compassion fatigue?

    Thank you guys for the reassurance.
  6. Is this compassion fatigue?

    Recently, I shot myself in the foot by unknowingly scheduling myself for a 5 day straight 12 hour night shifts. I should have known it was coming. I cared for the same patients for most of these 5 nights shifts and by the fourth night, I told myself ...
  7. PEEP and blood pressure/other hemodynamics

    it can be both but these measurements are not to be seen as "solely" volume measurement
  8. The worst job you had before becoming a Nurse?

    none. Nursing has have its ups and downs.
  9. The Doc said this can't happen!???

    omg that cardiac sx patient. Anyway, this is why you have to learn how to be an anesthesiologist haha do you guys have protocols with a nimbex drip?
  10. CCRN preparation

    Lol, your first paragraph
  11. NG insertion Doctors VS nurses

    NG inserted by nurses, confirm by air and then chest X-RAY. The air thing is just for the nurse to know if she's in, if not then reinsert. We don't use it until confirmed by Chest x ray and doctor has read the xray.
  12. PEEP and blood pressure/other hemodynamics

    CVP is PRESUMED to be a measure of the Right Ventricular End DIASTOLIC PRESSURE. RIGHT ATRIAL PRESSURE= RVEDP This is a huge problem with assumptions. As an ICU nurse DO NOT DEPEND ONLY ON NUMBERS and ASSESS the patient's overall signs and symptoms. ...
  13. Nursing is the Biggest Mistake of My Life

    Please get that RN after your name and then come back here if you don't get a job in a month. You are way ahead. Hospitals needs RNs. Are you an RN?? NOT YET.
  14. I agree with some. It was a rush move to report the nasty nurse just by one episode of nasty attitude. I have worked with one nasty nurse and tried to get along. Sometimes they mught be having a bad day or she had experienced bad shifts with new nurs...
  15. Wrong decision to enter critical care

    Try it out. Am in ICU for 8 months now. Still a lot to learn but you fail and you get back up. Enjoy the journey. Cheers.