Azzurri

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1. How often do EMS crews show up to your dept unannounced?

   Azzurri replied to Larry77's topic in Emergency

   You know this statement you said about critcal care nurses annoys the **** out of me. I work in an extremely busy ED/Trauma and the ICU nurses almost 98% of the time always have something to complain about. There are days when i'm working the trauma...

2. Christiana Care Internships for new Grads

   Azzurri replied to NEWRNDE's topic in Delaware

   I understand where you're coming from and all but I hope you are not mad at me because I'm working out of state. If you are that is sad, you're just bitter that you're not getting hired at this time and taking it out on others. I gave my history be...

3. Christiana Care Internships for new Grads

   Azzurri replied to NEWRNDE's topic in Delaware

   I have been working in the Christiana ED for 1.5 years now and went through the ED Internship. I was the only one in my internship who never even stepped foot inside Christiana besides for my interview. I grew up in central-north NJ and have been l...

4. I cant start IV's!

   Azzurri replied to Creamsoda's topic in Emergency

   I just want to mention to people, it's really not necessary to use tourniquets if you can see the vein. You will blow veins with tourniquets. You can always use one temporarily, in order to mark two points on the skin as targets, but really, you have...

5. Thomas Jefferson University Hospital

   Azzurri replied to gogatsby's topic in Pennsylvania

   I used to work there in '07 in the Neuro ICU in the Neuroscience building. I also had my critical care clinical rotation there and I was in the SICU and Neuro Trauma ICU(main building) the most and loved it. It's a great hospital to work at. The n...

6. I cant start IV's!

   Azzurri replied to Creamsoda's topic in Emergency

   I hate when pts say "I'm a hard stick, and you can only use butterflys or a baby IV or a 22G or 24G IV or my veins roll, etc". I'd say that 98% of the pts that say that aren't really hard sticks, they just had unexperienced nurses stick them before....

7. I cant start IV's!

   Azzurri replied to Creamsoda's topic in Emergency

   "My nursing school didn't stress IV skills. They told us that was the least of our worries. It's merely a technical skill, even EMTs start IVs. They wanted us to understand things, the mechanical skills come later." Actually EMT's don't start IV's, p...

8. I cant start IV's!

   Azzurri replied to Creamsoda's topic in Emergency

   I work in one of the largest/busiest ED Trauma centers on the East Coast and I honestly feel that IV's are one of the easiest parts of my job. We never use the IV team unless we have multiple unsuccessful attempts by a couple nurses only because its...

9. SHOCK TRAUMA TRU Nurse Manager info???

   Azzurri replied to Azzurri's topic in Maryland

   Thanks for the info. I just found this on the website: Terry DiNarrdo, R.N., M.S.N., C.C.R.N. Nurse Manager, 6th Shock Trauma Acute Care and Intermediate Care Units and Mike Knapp, R.N., M.S.N., C.N.A., B.C. Nurse Manager, Trauma Resuscitation Unit B...

10. SHOCK TRAUMA TRU Nurse Manager info???

    Azzurri replied to Azzurri's topic in Maryland

    zahryia I may do that if I can't find an email. I'd rather email him for now since I'm not going to be applying for another 2 years or so. ujones00 Thank you, I'd really appreciate it if you could find an email or # for me. Thanks.

11. SHOCK TRAUMA TRU Nurse Manager info???

    Azzurri replied to Azzurri's topic in Maryland

    Thanks for the reply. It seems impossible to find this guys email or phone number. The Multi Trauma Unit would definately be the unit I'd want to work on if I were doing ICU but I tried working in an ICU and though it was a great learning experience,...

12. pBt02 monitoring brain tissue oxygenation?

    Azzurri replied to wanderlust99's topic in Neuro

    They're called Licox and they've been around for a few years now. I work in a level 1 trauma ED and one of the neurosurgeons placed a Licox in one of my trauma pts in the ED last week, which is odd because they usually wait until the pts get upto the...

13. Male Nurses/female Patients

    Azzurri replied to ern91's topic in Men

    I work in a large teaching hospital in the ED and I don't shy away from doing any of pt care just because the pt is female. But there are some circumstances where a female nurse needs to be present with female pts. For instance if the doctor wants t...

14. SHOCK TRAUMA TRU Nurse Manager info???

    Azzurri posted a topic in Maryland

    Hello, I wanted to know if anyone knew the nurse manager at Shock Trauma's TRU contact information?? His name is listed on the website but there is no link to his email address. I currently work at Christiana ED, Level 1 Trauma Center in DE for abo...

15. Starting Salary At Christiana For New Grads

    Azzurri replied to SKYSTHELIMIT's topic in Delaware

    I don't know they have an ED-internship program which orients new grads and nurses with little experience for months to prepare them for their ED. I'm sure you're not gonna be a master and will probably still be overwhelmed but I've heard great thin...