which nursing specialty get to deal with lots of cool gadgets/equipments

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Specializes in public health.

ICU? PACU?

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Specializes in Acute Care, Rehab, Palliative.

We all get to deal with something cool. It's called the patient. It the reason we are in nursing.You want to play with cool gadgets get a job at Future Shop.

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Specializes in ICU, ED, Trauma, Transplant.

You might be the type who might enjoy perusing through the "Nursing Informatics" forum...

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Specializes in Cardiothoracic ICU.

ICU ccu cvicu, there are many cool gadgets like iabp, vad, impella, crrt...

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We all get to deal with something cool. It's called the patient. It the reason we are in nursing.You want to play with cool gadgets get a job at Future Shop.

Harsh!

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Specializes in Acute Care, Rehab, Palliative.
Harsh!

Maybe. Sorry. I have seen too many soon-to-be nurses that focus on the gadgets and ignore the patient in the bed. I was showing a student once how to flush a tube feed after administering meds and she never once acknowledged the patient that the tube was attached to even though I chatted with him while we were at the bedside.

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Maybe. Sorry. I have seen too many soon-to-be nurses that focus on the gadgets and ignore the patient in the bed. I was showing a student once how to flush a tube feed after administering meds and she never once acknowledged the patient that the tube was attached to even though I chatted with him while we were at the bedside.

I've been in the student's position and have done the same thing... I was paying attention to what the nurse was doing :)

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Specializes in Acute Care, Rehab, Palliative.
I've been in the student's position and have done the same thing... I was paying attention to what the nurse was doing :)

Haha ok I see your point. I guess this one student has stuck with me. She was all about "the gadgets" and never actually paid any attention to the patients. One time she was so busy playing with a machine she didn't notice the patient was dead.

I guess I still think we should become nurses to care for the patient, not get a chance to play with gadgets.

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Specializes in Gerontology.

Well, I'm in sub- acute care. I get to use CADD pumps, bladder scanners, IV pumps, kangaroo pumps, alarmed beds, pulse oximeters, CPAP machines...

ICU isn't the only place with cool gadgets!

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Specializes in ER/ICU/STICU.
We all get to deal with something cool. It's called the patient. It the reason we are in nursing.You want to play with cool gadgets get a job at Future Shop.

Cut me a break. Health care is always advancing and so is the technology. Just because someone is interested in the "gadgets" they get to use doesn't mean they don't care about the patient. This could just be something that interests the OP. Often times you will find that to take care of the patient you need to be up to date with the current technology, how it is used, and how to trouble shoot it. You are not doing the patient any good if you don't know how to use or troubleshoot the "gadget" that is keeping them alive.

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One time she was so busy playing with a machine she didn't notice the patient was dead.

I don't agree with everything you've said, but that made me lol

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Specializes in Peds- ICU.

The operating room has lots of gadgets to play with.

:coollook:

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