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1. New Grad in OR struggling

   cpkRN replied to StringOR's topic in Operating Room

   You sound just like I did when I started out and I'm now an OR educator and in leadership with our national organization. I was passionate about my job and knew I didn't want to be anywhere else. I...

2. What do OR nurses do anyway?

   cpkRN replied to greyL's topic in Operating Room

   Your patient may be asleep for an hour or even much longer, but you are ultimately responsible for that patient on the table. You may not start IVs or directly give medications (other than drawing...

3. Forced to stay and work under mandatory evacuation?

   cpkRN replied to squatmunkie_RN's topic in Patient Safety Issues

   We are part of an assigned team at my facility also. I don't expect it to be family utopia, in fact, I know that staying through a hurricane will probably be worse than the 9th layer of you know...

4. Operating room procedures/meds?

   cpkRN replied to 2bnurse_it's topic in Operating Room

   I work in a smaller community hospital and do mostly general, GYN, and ortho cases. The drugs I see most are: Marcaine (0.25% or 0.5%), Marcaine with epi, Ropivicaine, Lidocaine (1% or 2%),...

5. New Grad Pay in Louisiana...

   cpkRN replied to Katie71275's topic in Louisiana Nursing

   Area hospitals offered me as a new grad RN (BSN) 19-25. I make in the middle of that range. The higher paying hospitals here in New Orleans actually have pretty bad reps, so if you come here, do...

6. New OR nurse needs some advice

   cpkRN replied to smiggers's topic in Operating Room

   Orientation is technically 6 months. I was hired for a smaller facility but trained at the big "parent" hospital for the first 2.5 months. I've been at the small hospital full time for 2 weeks now...

7. New OR nurse needs some advice

   cpkRN replied to smiggers's topic in Operating Room

   I have also been in the OR for 3 months and was hired as a new graduate. I still feel stupid and inadequate on a daily basis, but we (myself and the other new hires) have been told that it's normal...

8. Patient care tech interview with Ochsner Hospital

   cpkRN replied to BreeNOLA's topic in Louisiana Nursing

   You're very lucky! Lots of applicants out there right now and many of my fellow students are upset that it's so difficult to even get called back! When I interviewed a year ago, it was basic...

9. LSU BSN

   cpkRN replied to mdv0731's topic in Louisiana Nursing

   That's not true. A large number of people do come in from BR because they want to continue their education at LSU, but everyone is weighted the same when it comes to admission. It's just a rumor...

10. LSU BSN

    cpkRN replied to mdv0731's topic in Louisiana Nursing

    LSU will set up times for you to get everything done. You'll get emails and such detailing how to get your background check done, where to buy your malpractice insurance, etc. They'll pretty much...

11. LSU BSN

    cpkRN replied to mdv0731's topic in Louisiana Nursing

    You won't start clinicals until your second semester. That's when you'll need your CPR

12. LSU BSN

    cpkRN replied to mdv0731's topic in Louisiana Nursing

    Class schedules are already up: http://nursing.lsuhsc.edu/AcademicSchedule/ClassSchedules/Fall%202011/Fall%202011%20Class%20schedule%20preregistration.pdf If you have Ab Psych, you'll have the Tuesday...

13. LSUHSC CARE Program Information

    cpkRN replied to altbsn2010's topic in Louisiana Nursing

    NolaRachel: you might want to run this by someone at the school first. I know they'll take Delgado credits for Abnormal Psych, but I just have no clue what they'll really do for anatomy. I had...

14. LSUHSC CARE Program Information

    cpkRN replied to altbsn2010's topic in Louisiana Nursing

    Physiology will be a challenge no matter what. Just don't get blindsided from it. Nobody finds it easy. I breezed through phys at Delgado and kept thinking there was no way I'd have trouble or fail...

15. LSUHSC CARE Program Information

    cpkRN replied to altbsn2010's topic in Louisiana Nursing

    You have to take physiology, no questions asked. Anatomy is another story: they just started allowing CARE students to get credit for anatomy this last year. Talk to them about it at your advising...