crazybusyRN

crazybusyRN

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  1. NICU to another specialty

    crazybusyRN replied to KT17's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    NICU was my first specialty (for 3 years), but I found that I wanted to "branch out" a bit, so I went to a peds CICU. Because a lot of pediatric heart disease is congenital, it's still a lot of...

  2. Nurse Ethicist?

    crazybusyRN replied to SmartieLaFance's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Hi there- I guess I would be a nurse ethicist-in-training. I did a Master's in Bioethics concurrently with my MSN (an NP program), which I will finish in August. The ethics degree is done, though....

  3. Writing a research paper on nursing specialties...

    crazybusyRN replied to jmontgomery4476's topic in General Nursing

    Hi, not sure if you're even still looking for replies... I don't often comment on here, I just lurk, but I felt bad, I know how it is to be a student. I don't think the nurses here are unwilling to...

  4. Feeling wiped out, overwhelmed, etc.

    crazybusyRN replied to cherokeesummer's topic in First Year After Licensure

    OK, I was thinking about your post, and had to reply. You sound like you could be one of my orientees, so I'll tell you what I tell them... Do you feel that your preceptors think you're too slow...

  5. Who runs your ECMO pumps?

    crazybusyRN replied to elizabells's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    CHOP uses both RRTs and RNs, but the RNs are VERY experienced (mostly in one of the CHOP ICUs). I'd say 5 years experience is the average, many have more. They do VV and VA ECMO, and most can be...

  6. Near Death Experiences?

    crazybusyRN replied to pagandeva2000's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    Can I still post in this forum as an RN? I hope so, because I think I have a good near death story for you. In the ICU I work in, we had a really nasty code in a teenager who had come in for elective...

  7. Before I became a nurse...

    crazybusyRN replied to arizonanurse's topic in General Nursing

    I never held blowby with one hand and rubbed a 5yo's head with the other because she said "I don't feel good, please don't leave me" (she was intubated within 20 minutes, kids always know when they're...

  8. Peds Cardiology/Boston Children's

    crazybusyRN replied to tiggerslj9's topic in Massachusetts Nursing

    Hope I'm not getting the thread off topic... I'm not in Boston, but I do work in a peds cardiology ICU (at a major children's hosp). It's a great specialty! And in many places, there are...

  9. feelings on vaccines?

    crazybusyRN posted a topic in General Nursing

    Hi, everyone- I read this site all the time, and I'm hoping all you smart nurses will have some opinions for me. Had my first class of the semester today in a class on the ethics of vaccination....

  10. Where were u 9/11/01?

    crazybusyRN replied to k_cole21's topic in General Nursing

    I was on my second day of orientation at my first real job as an RN- in NYC. We were listening to really boring lectures (in the subbasement of a hospital building, far from the towers) on things like...