ICUBecky

hey NICU nurses! i have just applied for a NICU position, at a children's hospital near where i live, and am desperately hoping to get it. i have not had any experience with neonates, or pediatrics for that matter (except in nursing school...many yea...

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keep your head up. try to stay as on course as possible, and try to make a lot of friends in the nursing program. i definitely found it much easier, with the support of people who really understood what i was going through! you will be in classes/...

I feel your pain Dr. Kate!! my mom (a RN) never let me stay home from school...except when i was diagnosed with mono or puking (and she actually had to see me puking AT HOME). anytime we would complain...she would just say "you think you're sick......

just wondering if anybody here can give me an easy explanation of this phenomenon... my patient last night was diagnosed with this. he was emer. cabg X4, IABP, fentanyl, epi, levophed, dopamine, bicarb, insulin drips, pressure problems, very acidot...

not anymore...he's dead.

yes tenesmus...he is fully mentating now. kinda sad. he knows how critical he is. at least ppl are telling him the truth though. don't worry...you don't sound horrible....i feel the same way. as far as labs. you are dead on. it's amazing how mu...

right london88. i agree. people in the US think if we have universal health care, that everyone will get health care, no matter what their income. such a misconception. if you don't have any money to pay into it...you still may not get health care ...

my biggest challenge...resisting the temptation to go out every night with my non-nursing major friends. i definitely liked to go out!! also, getting up really early in the morning for clinicals. yuck. i'm definitely not a morning person. i didn'...

just wondering...were you all ignorant to the salary and job descriptions of nursing before you went through a nursing program? did you all think you were going to start working...and WHAM everything would change. i dunno...i knew these things bef...

i agree qwiigley. socialized medicine isn't all it is cracked up to be. when i spent a semester in the UK, my host mother had to wait over a year...in order to get a simple knee surgery. she was in so much pain when she walked...but according to t...

update on the patient. he is still alive, but continues to have a spiked temp, although down from 106 to 102. no muscle rigidity, ABGs normal. pt awake and following commands. cardiac funtion is shot...needs LVAD. hypokalemic, hypernatremic. ki...

very interesting. thankyou for your wonderful replies and website postings. guess i should use this pt. as a learning experience...since it looks like it happens in a small percentage of the pt. population. so, has anybody actually seen this and ha...

Wooo Hooo... KSU College of Nursing rocks!! I loved college...wish i was back there now!! seriously, what a great research project. very appropriate questions. what's sad is that i answered "yes" to practically all of them...and i can remember th...

Wooo Hooo... KSU College of Nursing rocks!! I loved college...wish i was back there now!! seriously, what a great research project. very appropriate questions. what's sad is that i answered "yes" to practically all of them...and i can remember th...

SmilingBlueEyes--- i think you should write a letter to the magazine....exactly the way you said it here. it really caught my attention, and i think it is a great statement. IMHO.

SmilingBlueEyes--- i think you should write a letter to the magazine....exactly the way you said it here. it really caught my attention, and i think it is a great statement. IMHO.

that is sooo funny. got a good giggle out of that one! :chuckle :roll

that is sooo funny. got a good giggle out of that one! :chuckle :roll

You go Suzy! My thoughts exactly. this is off topic...but i just really have to say this origanally posted by MICU RN--- "And I don't get into the LPN bashing based on comparing education levels because I know many RN's with just associates degrees ...

face it...there is always going to be competition and/ or some disrespect between MDs and nurses...i don't see it ever changing. it's been like that since Florence Nightengale, and it will be like that into the future. how about instead of holding c...

i honestly don't see socialized health care happening in the united states very soon. they (our political system) have been arguing it over for years and years. it's not gonna happen...IMHO.

AnnCRNA...i think it would be very wise of you to take the CRNA off of your name. YOU have not gone through the hellish program, YOU have not taken the boards, YOU are NOT a CRNA. i think that it is appropriate that the actual CRNAs on this board a...

hey everyone! i just want to comment on the whole salary/ clock punching discussion. i have worked salary as a bedside nurse and to be honest, it sucked. i didn't get any compensation for staying an hour or two after my regular shift ended, no holi...

hey lisa... i think the confusion is all around. i spent a semester in northern ireland on a nursing exchange... i couldn't understand your grading system and titles for the life of me!! it was the most wonderful trip i have ever taken, though. i...