ccer99

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1. staRN program??? Questions...

   ccer99 replied to ccer99's topic in Florida

   Hey Castaneda, congrats! You get payed during your 13 week training however it is 15$/hr. When you finish and sign on with your hospital you will get paid more...whatever that specific hospital pays. Good luck to you :)

2. Do nurses do med math

   ccer99 replied to direw0lf's topic in General Students

   I do math everyday...and I had a pharmacist make an error mixing double concentrated levophed last night. When we program meds into the pump there are different choices depending on concentration as well. Plus, in a code you need to pull straight f...

3. Student nurse in the Lions den

   ccer99 replied to mountainjc's topic in Critical

   I agree with all of the above posts, and would add reading up a little on vents and vent alarms...what they mean/trouble shooting them. You will do great!

4. Charting physician contacts..

   ccer99 replied to ccer99's topic in Critical

   Thanks for the input :) I did follow chain of command and get the orders my patient needed so no worries there. I was just unsure of what I should have put in my charting.

5. Charting physician contacts..

   ccer99 posted a topic in Critical

   New nurse here with a question about appropriate charting. 1. When you guys/ladies contact a physician, do you chart their response word for word in quotes? For example, I contacted a physician the other night because my patients SBP Was in the 190'...

6. No more fingersticks in ICU?

   ccer99 replied to ccer99's topic in Critical

   Thank you again for all the info and articles, I appreciate the input and knowledge. Looks like I have a lot of reading to do :)

7. No more fingersticks in ICU?

   ccer99 replied to ccer99's topic in Critical

   Thanks for the input! I haven't found any research and when I asked again all I got was FDA white papers...going to be mandated soon...and no research lol. When I have a day off I'm going to look around some more. I'll definitely look more into goal ...

8. No more fingersticks in ICU?

   ccer99 posted a topic in Critical

   Hello all, Questions for you... is everyone still doing fingerstick blood sugars in their ICU? As of yesterday we are no longer allowed to. We can either draw off a central line or PICC, or we have to use a butterfly to get a sample (we can choose a...

9. staRN program??? Questions...

   ccer99 replied to ccer99's topic in Florida

   Hey, I'm excited to start on the 19th as well....which hospital are you going for? I'm be doing class at Lincoln college...how about you?

10. HCA New Grad Program (StaRN) at Kendall Regional (Miami, FL)

    ccer99 replied to RNMPCR's topic in Florida

    How many days a week did you have actual class?

11. staRN program??? Questions...

    ccer99 replied to ccer99's topic in Florida

    I didn't know about the program until I interviewed with a hospital that was involved with it. They told me about it during the interview and I got the same information. My recruiter said they are still looking for more new grads at several of the ho...

12. staRN program??? Questions...

    ccer99 replied to ccer99's topic in Florida

    Hello adrijel, congrats! I am actually going to start in the January class as well, due to the fact that I would deliver during the October class and wouldn't have been able to complete the clinical portion. Thankfully, the hospital has been awesome ...

13. Benefits of Clinicals w/ partners vs. without.

    ccer99 replied to RookieRoo's topic in General Students

    I remember classmates fighting over skills practice in clinicals...just remember that skills can be learned.Any junkie on the street can stick a needle in a vein. A good nurse, however, knows why he/she needs the IV regarding the patient and pathophy...

14. HCA New Grad Program (StaRN) at Kendall Regional (Miami, FL)

    ccer99 replied to RNMPCR's topic in Florida

    Congrats to everyone! I was just given an offer for the program that starts October 20th =) Can anyone who has been in the program tell me what the classroom and clinical hours were like. I want to take the offer but the nurse recruiter doesn't have ...

15. staRN program??? Questions...

    ccer99 posted a topic in Florida

    Hey everyone, I just got offered a spot in the staRN new grad program for St. Lucie Medical Center's ICU! The program is not until Oct. 20th and the site is almost 1 1/2 hours away....so I am trying to figure out how I will manage childcare at that ...