Nurse_

Nurse_

Trauma | Surgical ICU

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Nurse_ has 7 years experience and specializes in Trauma | Surgical ICU.


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  1. Here's my bare minimum: My own nursing brain Multiple pens (do not be that nurse that comes in clueless they need a pen and uses the surgical marker instead) Marker/Highlighter Trauma shears (2) hemostats Master cardiology stet hard candies/quick sna...
  2. Kaiser anesthesia (kpsan) 2018

    What's the LOL about that? It's the doctoral study of nurse anesthesia. The difference is that DOctoral study in nursing practice can also be applied to FNP. Hopefully, you are aware of the difference.
  3. Kaiser anesthesia (kpsan) 2018

    Just applied. Really excited about their DNAP program. December can't come soon enough.
  4. Jobs in a hospital setting without a degree

    EKG tech Phlebotomist Transport Nursing Assistant Unit secretary Most require additional training, some longer than others.
  5. Air in IV lines/syringes

    If it's a tiny bubble or two, there's really nothing to be concern about. However, I've seen a patient code due to air in the cordis. The patient is one of our sickest patient in the unit. A swan ganz was placed in the cordis. The nurse was giving bo...
  6. NCLEX ensures you are safe. To be safe while taking care of the weak and vulnerable. That's why it is there. You mentioned CGFNS, I assume you are a foreign graduate. Maybe the problem is not the knowledge base but the way you interpret the question....
  7. New nurse having a hard time with coworkers

    I have to disagree. There are nurses with some attitude, we have to as nurses. Don't we? We have to be able to stand up for our patients. But nursing is far from being catty and horrible. I'm biased, I guess, because I do like my coworkers. Even a p...
  8. Transition into Trauma Stepdown

    TNCC is mostly helpful for ER nurses. I recommend taking trauma care after resus (TCAR). TNCC and ATCN can also he helpful.
  9. Futile ressusitation

    Working in trauma/surgical ICU, I've seen people recover. Just the past weekend, the patient came in with a stab wound to the neck that severed the carotid artery. The doctors told the family not to expect him to survive and that they should say thei...
  10. Favorite nursing job or specialty

    Since I am a trauma/surgical ICU nurse, I am biased to my unit. The best part about working in trauma is that I'm able to see my patients survive and live. I had one patient, a female in her twentys who had a very bad car accident. We transfused her ...
  11. New Grad RN Salary Range

    Do you have prior experience? Are you a straight RN-MSN person? Nursing isn't like medicine or law or any other profession where the value of the school you came from is as valuable as the person. It may open doors in terms of interviews but that doe...
  12. Nursing Limbo.....

    I say go apply. Many new grad programs will recruit you pending a nursing license. So I suggest go start with new grad programs.
  13. You can sign it as late entry. Just be prepared to answer any questions. When I was a LVN, I was taking care of a peds patient witha metabolic disorder. I have given a PRN medication and did not have time to re-evaluate the effectiveness of the inte...
  14. I don't care whether the patient has 30 seconds or 30 years to live, we always ensure that we do things the right way. Flushing a port takes very little effort to ensure that we have it when the patient needs it.
  15. You know the shift is gonna be a hot mess when ...

    I know my shift will be a hot mess when... - trauma patient with clamshell thoracotomy, open abdomen, multiple drips, level 1 rapid infuser and crrt at the bedside - alcohol/substance withdrawal patient - getting a patient from certain hot mess nurse...