zacarias

zacarias ASN, RN

tele, stepdown/PCU, med/surg

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  1. How long should it take to find a job?

    zacarias replied to princess99's topic in General Nursing

    How long has it been since the interviews. I would send a card thanking the interviewer for interviewing you within a week after each interview. A week out from the interview, if they still haven't...

  2. working in a spanish country

    zacarias replied to nicthenurse's topic in General World

    Hey there. Let me just say that you would ABSOLUTELY need to be fluent in Castellano (Spanish). They also speak numerous languages in Spain such as Catalán, Basque, Galician etc. I am not sure if...

  3. Grey's Anatomy Premier!!! + How to Contact Show Creators

    zacarias replied to miya's topic in General Nursing

    I'm so disappointed in this show. I just emailed ABC and I never email networks on shows. The scene with the doctor and the nurse was so disturbing. I liked how the OP put it referring to the...

  4. in need of some good reads: nursing fiction

    zacarias replied to jolie chatte's topic in General Nursing

    Michael Palmer is great. He's written books like 'The Patient' and 'Miracle Cure', the former having a nurse practitioner as one of the main characters. Good medical

  5. Nurses and Blood Draws?

    zacarias replied to Curious1alwys's topic in General Nursing

    I was trained in phlebotomy and IV therapy at my nursing school. The first hospital I worked at is a world-famous teaching hospital and we did phlebotomy and IVs there too. If a nurse who hadn't...

  6. Would you go for your PA?

    zacarias replied to dorisemoore1's topic in Men in Nursing

    I'm troubled by a lot of people saying that NP training 'doesn't come close' to PA training. This is a fallacy. Furthermore, just as some docs prefer to work with PAs, other docs prefer to work with...

  7. Medicins sans frontieres - Doctors without borders

    zacarias replied to NorthER,RN's topic in General Nursing

    Hey all, Love this idea of volunteering in other places (Just saw 'Sometimes in April' and I'm barely recovering). Just one note on MSF. They generally put where ever there is a need and you...

  8. Complete HB, bradycardia, and hypertension

    zacarias replied to zacarias's topic in General Nursing

    What great responses everyone! I tend to agree with Hollyster and athomas in that there's no way this man could have compensated to that high of a BP. I tend to think that his essential...

  9. BPH stands for?

    zacarias replied to All_Smiles_RN's topic in General Nursing

    Hey Jennifer, BPH is Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia which is basically a prostate which has grown (increased in cells) large which will can produce symptoms in men such as trouble starting urination...

  10. Complete HB, bradycardia, and hypertension

    zacarias replied to zacarias's topic in General Nursing

    North ER, Thanks for the reply. He may have been hypovolemic although he's in pretty good health. NO meds at home for any illnesses. I like your theory though, just like we get tachy with low...

  11. RN Seeks Union Hosp w/pt ratios & CNAs

    zacarias replied to allsmiles's topic in Nursing Career

    Before I even saw Germain's reply, I was going to say UW Medical Center. It has to be by far one of the top five hospitals for nurses to work

  12. nurse pt ratios for new grads

    zacarias replied to mjbsn2006's topic in General Nursing

    Ahh...the University of WA's tele floor ratio is 4:1, sometimes 5:1. I don't work there anymore, but that place is da

  13. Lung Sounds: Diminished or Shallow?

    zacarias replied to Spider Cat's topic in Medical-Surgical

    A caveat too is when we chart "diminished lung sounds in the bases". The bases are the very end of the vesicular tree so really it is normally for those sounds to not be very loud; Essentially,...

  14. fnp to er

    zacarias replied to akoster's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    The UT program sounds really cool. I'm just wondering if a it allows a person to not only practice EM. For instance, if later in life I wanted to do Family Practice in a clinic, I would like to have...

  15. Having Problems finding pulses

    zacarias replied to Plagueis's topic in General Nursing

    Are you practicing on fellow students or on actual patients? Many older folks have what's called atrial fibrillation where there heart may beat very fast. When you take the radial pulse of these...

  16. Blood infusion question

    zacarias replied to LisaG21's topic in General Nursing

    A blood transfusion reaction could cause a drop in BP. Also, if the pt vasovagaled during the transfusion. Maybe they were nervous or uncomfortable and did something to overly stimulate their vagal...

  17. Help! I am very dizzy

    zacarias replied to HarryPotter's topic in General Nursing

    This article was great and so was the video. I just tried it. However, the article says that the people studied had vertigo when changing positions

  18. Me, Myself, and HIPPA

    zacarias replied to goodknight's topic in HIPAA Challenges

    If you said, "Guess who I saw guys, Jack Smith from the corner gas station. Yeah, he's had a bad winter. Oh guess what, did you know he had heart surgery back in the day?", That would not be cool,...

  19. Re-entry Programs

    zacarias replied to markjrn's topic in General Nursing

    Hey, Go to http://www.medhunters.com which is a huge healthcare professional recruiting website with impressive amounts of information. Look for the page that deals with people who haven't worked...

  20. Becoming a Certified Diabetic Educator

    zacarias replied to zacarias's topic in Nursing Career

    Q and Audrey, Thanks for the responses. It makes sense that I guess the only way is to be "lucky" and get hired to educate diabetics. I can't imagine that's an easy thing to pull off. What I need...

  21. Should patients be allowed to refuse LPNs and CNAs?

    zacarias replied to flashpoint's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    While I might agree that some folks indiscriminately use "Borderline" to define anyone with slight neuroses, 'Borderline Personality Disorder' IS an Axis II condition and is defined in

  22. Becoming a Certified Diabetic Educator

    zacarias replied to zacarias's topic in Nursing Career

    Press, Any luck with the ADA? I looked at two different sites, one the board that actually certifies and the other, a professional organization for CDEs. I have come up empty. They ALL talk...

  23. kissing a pt/ resident

    zacarias replied to Marti Ann's topic in Men in Nursing

    Absolutely nothing wrong with it. I wouldn't do it but I don't work with elderly folks and was born and raised in the US. However, when I lived in Mexico, I routinely kissed female friends and...

  24. Speaking Spanish Helpful?

    zacarias replied to Energizer Bunny's topic in General Nursing

    Hey there, I wanted to say I totally think it's cool you're doing Tagalog. With the number of filipinos in the Seattle area, it is totally possible to learn it. I tried to learn it before but...

  25. Antsy nurse

    zacarias replied to zacarias's topic in Travel

    OB/GYN, Thanks for the very helpful post. You're very empathetic and know exactly what I'm going through. I think that when I start to travel I should take like a med/surg assignment with...