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Check the pt's H&H if the crit is low maybe bleeding!!!!!!

I have seen many high numbers. dont forget to look for GI bleeds many things can make a BUN rise

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 Peachtree city. I understand traffic is horrible drive in ...

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 job. I dont want to go somewhere that will change th...

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 the general pay?? I live in MD right now.

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 GREAT DAYS FELLOW NURSES I LOVE MY JOB AND MY PRO...

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 zero'd.

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 as well as heart transplants, lung transplants, V...

Hey thanks for the help. Ny husband would work out of the airport. I really am afraid that I will be lonely there, but this place is almost to snooty for me. I am from upstate NY, we work no matter what unless you are to sick to move. Well I could ...

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 hard time at first. the first 6 months sucks every...

My husband and I are sick of MD. We are looking to move to upstae because he would work in NC. I work in CTICU in a big Univ hospital very sick patients. I am looking for something along the same lines. Also how is the weather year round??? And ...

I am also looking into relocating to SC. My husband and i are sick of MD. I am a CTICU nurse in a big Univ hopstial. What would be comp. to that in upstate SC he would work out of NC. What is the pay like???? Please let me know

Anyone still ou ther and wanna talk hearts??? I yr nurse at a CS ISU lot to learn and hope someone wants to talk???????

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 in the medical field, because we only human we wil...

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 proficient at something before we can be responsible for ...

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 give up. I know it easy to want to though.:chair...

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 you never have to at the bedside if you chose. I l...

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 cranky and families in crisis being needy, I get t...

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 loved it mostly everyminute of it. You have to be on ...

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 response.

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 not start looking for the right answer. Just read ...

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 some day it will happen. I hope that I get the same...

Hey it has been 1 year since I passed. Now I know that there is harder things in life LIKE ACTUALLY BEING A NURSE. Carryon

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 problem with nursing are nurses. As a whole we tend no...

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 miserable.