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All I have to say is I challenge any posturing macho a**hole to survive one shift on my floor (especially a shift like last night's when the sky started falling around 5 am.) We'll then SEE who the REAL man is!

How much tracheal trauma can Combitubes potentially cause? I ask this because if you stick it in the trachea, doesn't it equal about a size 12 ET tube??

You write that you study, read, etc the material. My question is do you actually understand the material you're studying? Are you able to apply it to real life situations or are you trying to memorize too much? The key to understanding medical knowle...

I saw this posted on a blog today. "I am a physician in the Portland area. We are seeing more and more people unable to pay their bills. Today I wrote off two patients' cost for a surgery. Both mom and dad have lost their jobs, their insurance en...

Well I'm back again with the " end of the class lazies". Exam 2 is on May 11 and the final is on May 20th. I can't bring myself to read another word in my text book, and I'm doing terrible on my practice nclex exams. Oh what to do ? What to do? ...

Med-surg RNs probably don't get the respect they deserve because everything nicolegrow wrote is true. There sometimes just are not enough hours in the day do get everything done. The other day I worked with an RN on a transplant floor and I don't thi...

I just finished mine. I hated it not because of feeling uncomfortable or anything. The nurses and patients were great and I learned a few things. It was just so BORING! The patients were all very stable and pain controlled. Several, of course, were n...

Well, didn't get in. I don't know what it takes to work in their hallowed halls because I thought I had most everything they could have wanted.

I applied. Here's hoping I get in.

You can ask this question over on the CRNA boards but from what I've read there over the last few years it wouldn't matter where you got your BSN. (By the way, why don't you think you'd get into the BSN program at UM?)

I agree that the RN-to-paramedic route is the way to go as far as certification. However, as a former medic turned nursing student I can attest that there was a lot I learned in paramedic school that is not taught at an equivalent level in nursing sc...

Well, this thread is currently very relevant to me. Here's my story- former paramedic, current BSN student (3 more semesters to go), B in General Chem 1 and am currently exposing my very masochistic self by taking Chem 2 this SUMMER with the idea of ...

To one in particular- you are completely incapable of teaching. You do one thing really well- reading (from the PowerPoint slides, that is). You have no ability to convey the information required for the ridiculous tests you put together.

We can take this discussion to a more appropriate forum on this site but let me just say that as a paramedic-turned-current-nursing student the theory !%@# makes me want to puke! I believe it is in the curriculum to keep a few too-posh-to-wash Ph.Ds ...

I am 22 now, and I calculated that by the time I am done with CRNA school, if all goes as planned, which rarely happens, I would be about 32 when I graduate.. Someone once told me "Well youll be 32 anyways, why not be a CRNA". The fact that you are ...

"Bump the pay down to about $140-150K but it then I could work lochums in other places every third week." Is there any reason an employer would frown on a CRNA (or MDA for that matter) doing locum work? I mean, common sense tells me no. (It's not as ...

Starting my 4th week of a 4 semester program on Monday at age 31.

"I have known some great nurses with tons of ICU knowledge to not get accepted, but others with minimal knowledge get in." I wonder if some of that is because those experienced nurses have not taken certain classes (i.e. chemistry) in many years. I d...

How often does the situation arise that you look at a patient's chart and decide that, because of the patient's history, you are not comfortable proceeding with the surgery? Does the surgeon usually agree with you or can there be a lot of conflict? I...

Is there anyone here starting in WSU nursing in January 2008?

"Once the patient was out, alot of them read books, the paper, worked on a laptop, while sitting next to their monitors." Wow. This makes anesthesia practice sound like an EXCELLENT way to make a living....especially if you want to get SUED and NO L...

Glad to know you're getting more confident. It's inspiring for SRNAs... and associated wanna-bes. (WHO could I POSSIBLY be thinking about??? :chair:)

Hypertension with associated hypernatremia would have to have some sort of renal insufficiency component whether it be the simple inability of the kidneys to properly filter waste water or the kidneys' oversecretion of aldosterone which increases sod...

Thank you for posting this. I noticed this in a patho class I just finished (even though the instructor would use "patient" and "client" interchangibly). I cannot stand the use of the word client in a medical setting. There is nothing, absolutely not...

Yes, and besides, if you are able to work as an LPN while in school you'll just get more patient care experience. ICU or not, experience is experience.