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  1. High BUN and Creatinine

    Check the pt's H&H if the crit is low maybe
  2. High BUN and Creatinine

    I have seen many high numbers. dont forget to look for GI bleeds many things can make a BUN
  3. Looking for a job in the Atlanta area?

    OK, OK I am an ICU nurse looking for the sickest patients most unstable in Atlanta. Where or where should I go. are their any flight nusres out there??? I am looking to move to the area of...
  4. Where Is The Worst place to work in Florida?

    Hey thanks for the info. I really the Cardiac Surgery. Residents dont bother me. Fellows with big egos bother me Clin SPecs that get paid and do little bother me. What can you do. I really love the...
  5. Where Is The Worst place to work in Florida?

    My husband and I are looking inot moving into the Tampa area. I am almost scared to ask, is there any good one in that area to work at?? I am CTICU and would like to stay there a trauma. What is...
  6. CVP Line Question

    thats cool. At least I was right about something. There are days I dont feel like that will ever happen again. Well thanks for the info. i get to admitt a double lung tx today. Good for me HAVE A...
  7. CVP Line Question

    just to throw 2 cents in. I do know that the CVp and Pa pressures are more accurate when the pt is in bed laying down and the pt is
  8. Need Information About Charlotte

    My husband and I are hoping to re;ocate to the Charlotte area. I am looking for a teaching hospital with really sick patients. I am in Cardiac surgery right now and admitt open heart pts from the OR...
  9. I'm a new RN...Please help!

    Hey CONGRATS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I am a new nurse 1yr. I started out on a Cardiac Surgery Unit at a teaching hospital. I really love it. It was hard at first, but i think all of my class mates had a...
  10. Want to Discuss Hearts?

    Anyone still ou ther and wanna talk hearts??? I yr nurse at a CS ISU lot to learn and hope someone wants to
  11. 7000 fatal med errors last year-where are theses nurses?

    Thank you for sharing your story. There is nothing I can say that will help you feel better about this. Only time will make you comfortable with what has happend. It is a good wake up call for all...
  12. How many people work with VAD's out there??? How in the world does an institution hire a new grad and give them VAD's with no training on them. Doent the nures practice act say we have to be...
  13. How long will I be miserable?

    Nursing doesnt have to be miserable. orientation is miserable and even for the nurses that have been for along time and move to differnet places andhave to learn a new system/ Please dont give in or...
  14. How long will I be miserable?

    Hey, this is the saddest thing I have heard of in a long time. We arent not going to make big changes especially the one we thought we would in school. However, with all the things that nursing is...
  15. How long will I be miserable?

    Yeah I am sure we all feel it. It comes from all the hard work we do in school and the the under appreciation we get from the people we work with when we get out. I can understand sick people being...
  16. Cardiothoracic Nursing texts

    Have that book and I love it. Welcome to probably the most difficult and challenging nursing outt there. I have been a nurse for 1 year and started out on a CTICU floor. I have learned alot and...
  17. VAD and the Nurse Practice Act

    Yeah, That is what I thought. It is amazing what Nurses will push nurses to do knowing it is not safe and that they would not do it themselves. It is a crazy world out there. Thanks for the...
  18. that darn nclex

    To whoever emailed me about the Nclex. I passed my nclex the first time. I had 75vquestions and took 3 1/2 hours to take it. Take your time. Do practice questions. Eliminate the wrong answers do...
  19. Med Errors

    Hey is this still a good thread. I have to say that it has been very helpfull to me. I am a new nurse 1 yr only so thanks for all the great advice and I hope I wont make a mistake but I know that...
  20. that darn nclex

    Hey it has been 1 year since I passed. Now I know that there is harder things in life LIKE ACTUALLY BEING A NURSE.
  21. How long will I be miserable?

    WOW. You have to find a different place. All the hell of school and all things you had to have gone through and had the people that love you go through with you is not worth that. The biggest...
  22. How long will I be miserable?

    What a nice message you are so right. It is hard to get to that place. I dont hate my patient population some of the girls I work with are just
  23. How long will I be miserable?

    Hey you guys thank you for making know I have not been alone. Yuo know how horrible it feels to go through all the CRAp of Nusing school only to find out you SUCK at what you really want to be. I...
  24. are "select all" questions the upper level type?

    Totally conviced you need like 2 right to pass that sucker still can not believe that i did it. Cant think of more than 2 I got
  25. Pay Rates for new Grads (Updates are appreciated)

    Dont look just at money. It is a hard way to make a living and it is multi faceted. Look at hours, shifts, floating, how much turn over is on the units, how long have people been there. Things i...