Bcollins94

I work in a large inner city ED, we usually only board our ICU patients because our ICUs tend to be full even though we have about 50 ICU beds. Patients who are intubated tend to get a bed within a few hours because they shuffle patients around to accomodate them, but it's relatively common for me to have one or two ICU/CCU or stepdown patients that have been waiting in the department for 24+ hours. Also this doesn't effect our ratio at all, we're still expected to care for 6-8 patients with the ICU included

I'm also a new grad fresh out of orientation in a level 1 trauma ED and I was trained/am expected to circulate or scribe all trauma codes that I'm called to. It's definitely overwhelming but I've been assured that it will get easier with experience. I took ACLS last month but don't take TNCC until October

I just graduated from Schoolcraft's program. I was on the wait list for a year but got all of my BSN & co-req classes out of the way during that time so it didn't really matter. I loved the program and feel that it is one of the better ones in the area, although I guess I'm a little biased 😋

Hi there, I currently work as a Nurse Tech/ RN extern as I finish up my final year of nursing school. As a Nurse Tech, I can be used as a nurse or as a tech. When being used as a nurse, I have my own assignment and do my own assessments but require an RN to cover my meds. I also get paid $5/hr more than the techs and cannot be used as a sitter.