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  1. Okay, SRNA's, enlighten me.

    whatdayoftheweekisit replied to crichards00's topic in Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist

    In school now and have 2 small children and a supportive husband. It is doable but beyond comprehension for difficulty...not just the material but I am talking about making the family life work! My...

  2. No wonder our profession is messed up

    whatdayoftheweekisit replied to NeuroNP's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    Best advice I ever received concerning my admission to anesthesia school...."The only people that are truly happy about your success are your mother and your spouse!" I think this is more of a quip...

  3. CRNA School

    whatdayoftheweekisit replied to mymy78's topic in Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist

    To Mymy - very high 900's to 1000 at least on Gre is the minimal expected standard. 4 ppl interviewed me. Was pretty non-threatening but also intense...just study and know your stuff.To Shannon - good...

  4. CRNA School

    whatdayoftheweekisit replied to mymy78's topic in Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist

    I work at MVH. Interview was here...classes will be here (you have to travel to Texas twice once you're in...2 weeks each time). You can email/message me anytime if you have questions. Good luck on...

  5. Help with GRE

    whatdayoftheweekisit replied to nurse_crna2b's topic in Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist

    I used the study guides...verbal wasn't a problem for me but everyone is different. I hired a private math tutor who had taken the GRE. I just researched math tutors on google and talked to a few....

  6. CRNA School

    whatdayoftheweekisit replied to mymy78's topic in Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist

    Hey there...I live in Dayton also. I interviewed with Texas Wesleyan in November and just got my acceptance call a couple of weeks ago ;-) I think they interviewed 12-15 people and there were quite...

  7. Advice needed for coworker problems!!!

    whatdayoftheweekisit replied to kidnurse98's topic in General Nursing

    Any way you can switch shifts? Sometimes it helps to go to night shift - away from the crooked manager and away from this territorial, rotten individual. You only have a few options... 1. Switch...

  8. Time to Triage

    whatdayoftheweekisit replied to SheaTab's topic in Emergency

    LilGirl - this is what my facility calls "immediate bedding"...except, the triage nurse doesn't triage at the bedside, the primary nurse receiving the patient does. Our triage tech takes the patient...

  9. Nonsense "stat" orders

    whatdayoftheweekisit replied to MikeyBSN's topic in Emergency

    Hmmm...the best way we avoid "stat" nonsense orders is to have already had a bed rqstd upstairs and the second the resident whips their measley orders off their order set we can say, "sorry...these...

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

    whatdayoftheweekisit replied to Larry77's topic in Emergency

    It is important to understand that an encode is a courtesy by EMS - not a requirement. That being said, by not encoding, EMS certainly isn't on the fast track to having a good working relationship...

  11. Best ER Nurse quotes

    whatdayoftheweekisit replied to JennyAS's topic in Emergency

    Had a guy with vibrator stuck in rectum - sedated to remove with some forceps - wanted to die laughing when my ER doc hit the "on" button in there with the forceps and started the thing vibrating....

  12. What would you do?

    whatdayoftheweekisit replied to shoegalRN's topic in Emergency

    Your documenting of the facts only...no bias...will likely not be what gets this guy fired. Whoever he is, he won't know that this had anything to do with you. If anything, his anger may be piqued...

  13. Not properly trained for ER?????

    whatdayoftheweekisit replied to bassadict69's topic in Emergency

    Clinically, there would be no less preparation for the ER coming out of an Associate program than say a Bachelor's program. A new grad in the ER is a new grad...doesn't really matter what alphabet...

  14. Time to Triage

    whatdayoftheweekisit replied to SheaTab's topic in Emergency

    Hey Tabitha, Boswell described a great two-tiered system. This is an ideal way for triage to work but if you have only one nurse then the primary assessment or rapid triage has to be performed by the...

  15. If an ER patient is Not Sick, are we still supposed to treat?

    whatdayoftheweekisit replied to ernoc333's topic in Emergency

    Sounds like you need the QMP or ESP process....using the ESI five-level acuity system, all 4s and 5s in our ED are QMP eligible. The ED phsyican provides the MSE - if no EMC (emergency medical...

  16. Time to Triage

    whatdayoftheweekisit replied to SheaTab's topic in Emergency

    Tabitha, I am our designated ER triage educator at my facility. ENA has some specific language about how long a patient should wait - you can check their website for times for your state. ESI...

  17. Computerized ED charting

    whatdayoftheweekisit replied to Calfax's topic in Emergency

    Danielle, We use Meditech and our ER charting system does not communicate with it either, but we have recently discovered that you can cut and paste the med list from meditech to our ER charting...

  18. Would this happen at your ER?

    whatdayoftheweekisit replied to AlisonBSN's topic in Emergency

    This scenario is an EMTALA violation. I can only think that the ER charge nurse was new or something and didn't realize it....but you would think that the ER doctor would have known it. I'm sorry...