LoraLou

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  1. LPN's Role in the ICU?

    LoraLou replied to Nurse-o-Matic's topic in MICU, SICU

    my hospital system does not hire LPN's at all in critical care, and very few on the

  2. ICU RN's responsible for CRRT or CVVH

    LoraLou replied to graciev's topic in MICU, SICU

    we set it up and run it ourselves, staffing is 1:1 unless extreme dire situations, which is doing think i've ever seen. There is a class that we have to take (8 hours i think) that we have to take...

  3. Hospitals in Columbus?

    LoraLou replied to jenrosie's topic in Ohio Nursing

    Ohio Health includes Riverside/Grant/Doctors Mount Carmel has West/East/St. Annes OSU has Ross heart/james Cancer/Harding, and many others I believe Grant is level one trauma, but they don't get much...

  4. tests....

    LoraLou replied to WSU_Ally_RN's topic in Ohio Nursing

    WSU requires its students to take the HESI exam, you will hear about it soon, it is done through the school in the comp.

  5. What do you think of video nurse patient monitoring?

    LoraLou replied to The Gunslinger's topic in General Nursing

    my unit has had the eicu for about 5-6 months. There are some things that are nice and some that don't work quite so well. I will say that when we've had an intern on with no resident back up it was...

  6. BSN duties?

    LoraLou replied to nev's topic in General Nursing

    as far as any hospital that i've worked at, no different duties, usually just the chance to advance

  7. Share Your Funniest Patient Stories...

    LoraLou replied to Trvln Nurse's topic in Nursing Humor

    My favorite funny story would have to be when i was an aide in a nursing home through school. Another aide and I were assisting a resident back into bed and she started to fall so the other aide I was...

  8. Student entering in critical care rotation

    LoraLou replied to hoping to be an rn's topic in MICU, SICU

    ask questions! Don't do anything that you feel uncomfortable with, but put yourself in a room where they're doing something you've never seen before. Ask the nurses on the unit to notify you if...

  9. Recovering RN seeking to re-enter practice

    LoraLou replied to JMWalker's topic in Nurses Recovery

    I work with a nurse who was in a similar situation, it's an ICU, she just is not allowed to pass out narcs and has to ask for others to do so for

  10. Dopplers on your crash cart?

    LoraLou replied to Mary MSN RN's topic in MICU, SICU

    Technically at our hospital we keep a doppler on our code cart, however the dopplers that we have are so crappy they end up getting taken and stuck in people's rooms so when were looking for them in...

  11. ICU gets differential and not ER??

    LoraLou replied to jentenrn's topic in Emergency

    Can I just say this is exactly why nursing gets no respect, we all sit around and bicker between ourselves about who works harder and yada yada yada. Every nurse works hard at where they are placed....