JenSICU_CCRN

I have 5 tats...all covered when in scrubs. large sun on my lower back 2 big Chinese Symbols on my spine in between my shoulder blades Shamrock with Celtic KNots on my hip on the right down by my belt line Huge firedancer with reds, oranges, yellows ...

1.) what is your highest level of education? BSN plus 18 hours of graduate classes toward MSN 2.) What type of facility do you work in? (Hospital, homehealth, office, etc)? Community Trauma Hospital 3.) Is your current facility hiring? Does it offer...

What I want to know also...is how did your hospital achieve magnet status if you are so understaffed? We have a magnet hospital in WV (Ruby Memorial) and people would cut of their arms to work there. Jenny

Well, this is a touchy subject. I am a SICU nurse, and in our hospital our patients tend to be the sickest of the sick. Our unit is known for having tons of nursing hours as we frequently have 1:1 patients. I do not think that our nurses should ge...

Congrats James....The called me in September and told me that I was accepted for this January, but I am going to decline at this time. Good luck to you and all you do. They also told me the letters were in the mail and I have yet to receive one-LOL...

I don't think that anyone here has denied that it happens....nurses doing things without orders and so on and so forth. What we are saying is that it is illegal and giving extra medication is practicing medicine without a license. You did elude to ...

Heck no....thank God for our unit. I work in a very busy Trauma/SICU in a tri-state area as well. We have a PCA (unit secretary/CNA) 24 hours a day unless there are 3 or 5 patients. At 5 patients we have 3 nurses and no PCA and at 3...2 nurses and...

This is a common term in the south and nobody was stereotyping nurses from underdeveloped areas. Please don't make it out to be something it never was. Really, this isn't the main issue of the OP....the main issue is that giving more drugs than are o...

I don't mean to beat a dead horse, but I can't get this posting out of my mind. I just re-read the original post, and I'm appalled that you all joke about this with physicians. It isn't funny to me that you give meds without an order....it is illeg...

Some residents were saying pressors were contraindicated in neurogenic shock, but my literature states otherwise. Nurses argued back and forth with docs about pressors and finally when they let us start some neo we had acceptable bp. I am really inte...

We usually don't treat an acute SCI with bradycardia unless it is symptomatic (low BP). Usually these tragic accidents are young adults (probably with low HR's anyway) so is a HR in the 40's really as bradycardic as we think. As long as the pressur...

Oh, and as an afterthought after hitting submit....think about it like this. If you are giving extra insulin and extra ativan...the physicians think those doses are working and will be hesitant to write orders for more when you really need them. Bl...

While, I know that nurses give "extra" of a drug that is something that I would not do. #1 I'm not a physician (even though as RN's we know more about the pt. than they do usually) and #2 I worked too hard to get my license to lose it. If your medi...

Sorry, I had my right and left confused-LOL....I do that commonly with everything right and left. I also had been up for almost 30 hours when I posted. Sorry again. Jen

Well, thanks. In my CCRN studies last year, I was fascinated with the Oxyhemoglobin dissociation curve and dug deep into it. My best friend was also so interested in it, she made an educational book on it for our unit since we get pts. from PACU, f...

Absolutely add your jobs that you wroked while in nursing school, because it shows that you can handle working with nursing school. As we all know, nursing school is very demanding and if you have good grades and worked as well, then that is a plus....

I 2nd what the above poster has said...that is why in the unit that I work that we have specialty drugs and items in our procedure carts, omnicell, stock rooms, etc. Plus we have nurse servers in each room at the bedside for frequently used items. J...

We have never had a problem with the bags breaking at our facility. Jenny

SICU nurse here, and we always get the CEA's even if for only 24 hours. They need intensive monitoring and ICU nurse eyes for at least 24 hours post-op. The med-surg floors are just too busy and with too large of a pt. load. A good watchful eye fo...

They called me last week and told me I was accepted and to be looking for a letter in the mail, and I have yet to receive one. E-mail if you have any other questions. Jenny

we also reuse the bags too.....hope this helps. jenny

i would suggest that you retake some of your undergraduate classes, like the science ones. the two schools that i am in the application process won't offer an interview if you don't meet all the requirements, and one of them is a gpa (undergrad) gre...

anytime, and if you have any other questions about the mu program, i would be more than happy to help you out. your gpa is good, and i'm happy to hear that you are getting the sciences under your belt...i would definitely take biology before physics...

we only use it short term as well since there is in increased rate of infection while using propofol due to it being lipid based. also, we don't use high doses since it affects bp adversely sometimes....we are extremely careful with it in our unit. ...