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Hi everyone, I am an inner-city trauma nurse back in the northeast, and am thinking about relocating to the Bend area....(anyone see "Mercy" on TV :heartbeatlast night? Everything the doc said about NJ is true!)....it seems as if the only hospital i...

not at all true...I, and two other nurses I work with, went straight into ICU with ADNs...BSNs, with their extra management courses under their belt, offer no particular advantage to an ICU manager looking to hire (as a new nurse and a first position...

Hi Everyone! I am a newly-registered nurse, and can't get my first job to save my life (horrible hospital closings - I'm sure you all know about it:uhoh3:)...Rather than sit at home and sulk, I'm going to take the bull by the horns and go ahead and ...

I may be wrong, but I remember back in school my final-semeseter instructor explaining to us that we, as students, could never practice starting IVs because in NJ only RNs, or Paramedics, can start IVs...I was incredulous that there would be unfortun...

Hi Steve RN: Are you still at NYP? I'd love to work there. I'm in MICU/SICU in NJ. only 1-1/2 years experience, though. Offhand, hard to get into your MICU with this level of experience?

I work in NJ. Call, first, hospitals in your area to see if they will open their internal IV access course to outsiders for a fee. (I'm assuming you have your RN license. Only RNs can start IVs in)...nearly all hospitals have IV access courses. If...

What about a simple albumin infusion for a short time, even if just to suspend medication in the bloodstream and maintain osmolarity? Did this patient need the calories from the prosource?

I went into the ICU for my first nursing job out of school - it took me a half a year to get it, but I didn't want any other specialty....I learned how to make myself more marketable while I was looking - it costs a hospital (at least here in the no...

I looked up the cost of Xigris through Henry Schein last year - $880.00 per dose.

Hi fellow ICU RNs! ....I'm a fairly new nurse (2 years) trying to study for the CCRN. I have the AACN book (dry, dry, dry,...), but I keep hearing about these famous DVDs from Ms Gasparis. They are nowhere to be seen on any website, and I've done ...

Me, too....I have to say the sound quality if "ha-a-a-arible", and can get a little annoying, but the material is excellent. I work with an older RN on my unit who worked with Ms Gasparis, said she was not just an incredible nurse, but sort of a "re...

Hi Nurse 901! I should say from the start but I live now in NJ ....but it's not my fault! (lol)...I come from several generations of Colorado families - I'm looking to relocate to Colorado again, and so I'm going to post a question about this righ...

Thank you to you both! :bowingpur:flowersfo

Hi everyone! I can't believe how difficult it is to get these famous gasparis DVDs for passing the CCRN....I can't find them anywhere. There's no material out there from her except for a ten year-old paperback book on Amazon. Can ANYONE PLEASE tell...

Do you work the day shift, burnout RN, and if so are you on twelve-hour shifts? quote=ACRN06;3532057]I'm tired... I'm so tired. I'm worn out. I've found myself thinking more and more of different jobs I'd like to do if I weren't a nurse. And the thi...

So why are you here? Why continue to talk to us, and why contribute to this forum? Or is it because you want to dissuade, discourage, and make sure as many nurses as possible are unhappy as you? To the original poster, I love my job very much, and ...

Oh, STOP!!!!:wink2::hgu:with the "I'm Ignorant!" You're not ignorant, and that's not at all an ignorant question - I should know, because I asked that one myself before. The PCT positon is a lay position - used to be called "nurse's aide"....hospit...

In my unit (ICU) it's the librium-only Q4, then Q6, just to start, with a PRN benzo Q2 if the patient is a huge drinker, OR if there's a neuro-thing going on like a cranial bleed, where they want to REALLY keep them calm, then there may even be a ben...

good luck!:)

Where do you feel that you "failed", in treating this patient, with all the illnesses you detailed - any one of which (eTOH withdrawal, DKA, Pancreatitis) can be fatal on it's own, let alone cocktailed together...you treated him, where's the failure?...

I forgot to add that there wasn't a multi-unit rotation in my orientation - just the ICU.

My question for all of you new ICU nurses is how long is your orientation program? At the hospital where I hopefully will be working upon graduation, the ICU residency program is 6 months rotating through all the various units and then an additional ...

Oh......(duh)..our version is Rapid Response Team. I"ll go have that second cup of coffee now...

I dressed in an impeccable suit (to look like a drug rep), carried a leather folio, and walked into each unit directly, and asked the unit secretary for the nurse-manager's office. Usually I just got the sullen glare, with a question such as, "what ...

What's "RAT" ?