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We only have acls and pals no other education required. I am acls but havent been able to attend pals because it is always on my weekend to work and there are always others that get to go first. One of the Docs has just started giving lectures but has only done one so far. It was very interestting and informative on acls drugs.

We have 2 LPN's that do all the callbacks for our department. We have a follow-up form that we print. She makes all the follow-up Dr's referralls and schedules outpt testing, Alot of our pts. don't have family Dr's so we try to get them referrals to speciality Dr's if needed or follow-up out of town, They also check all the x-rays from the following day to make sure that no fractures were missed and that all exams were followed up appropriately. They also check on the urine cultures to make sure they are on the appropriate antibiotic, and all the std cultures and let them know how to be treated and follow-up for that. They are very busy girls and do a great job. They tried to get the RN to do the call-backs and follow-up with patients to make sure they are getting better for P.R. but as of yet we don't have time and haven't had to start that. We see about 200 patients daily in our ed.

I work in a 22 bed ED where we seperate patients by acuity level.I have worked there for over 2 years now, prior to that worked in a Urgent Care based ED. My problem is this, I am never scheduled in Acute Care. My nurse managers say it is because I don't have enough Acute Care experience but I can never get any experience if I am not up there. I spoke with them and after the first of the year would come in on my day off to work in Acute Care but this hasn't helped either. They say I am doing better but I still don't get scheduled up there. I feel I am ready to except the challenge of dealing with critical patients but how do I let them know I am ready for this? I have spoken with them about this issue but still nothing get resolved. They put me in the Triage area where you have to work by yourself and deal with all levels of acuity and I am told I do very well there. I also work in the intermediate area where we deal with cardiac issues and abdominal issues. I am looking for other options at different hospitals now.

I live in a small town in Ohio where we have the safe haven law in place, just recently we had a young girl give birth to what she said was a still born child and left it in the woods for dead. Wild dogs found the baby and left it in a neighboring backyard where several young children playing in the yard found its mutilated body. That is not something I want my children to find. I think they law is needed to protect the children.

I worked for 20 years as a radiologic technologist then in 2002 decided that it would be fun to be a registered nurse. There are many aspects to radiology nursing, there are cath lab nurses that work closely with radiology tech and cardiologist doing heart and vascular procedures, there are interventional radiologist who also do some heart procedures, picc lines, infusaport catheters and vascular procedures, and then radiologist who need assistance with ct biopsies and myleograms procedures. It is a really interesting field to get into. The hospital I work at in the cath lab the cardiologist do all the heart procedures, heart caths and stents. We have vascular surgeons who do angiograms and carotid stents. Then Radiology Nurses assist the Radiologist with CT Biopsies giving Moderate Sedation. And myleogram with anxiety relief. All this requires a knowledge of cardiac monitoring, critical care drugs, ACLS. As an X-ray Tech, I was also involved in vascular procedures, assisting the vascular surgeon with catheter placement, aquiring the appropriate radiographs for proper diagnostic exam. I'm also registered in CAT Scan tech, so i assisted the physician with diagnositic exams. I also worked in the emergency room as a x-ray tech so I got to see alot of trauma. Good luck with your career, either choose would be a good experience