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    Who has more stess RT or RN?

    It's a bit more complicated than simply bagging however. Say you have a PEEP dependent patient or a patient on HFOV. Will they tolerate being bagged for any amount of
  2. These are fundamental, first semester respiratory student calculations. Please, get help and look at tutoring. Do not fall behind and good luck. As already discussed the inspiratory flow is simply how...
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    Who has more stess RT or RN?

    A significant portion of the population of the United States has stress and depression issues. Many healthcare workers are on medications for these issues. I'm not sure I'd make a sweeping...
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    Who has more stess RT or RN?

    RN is much more stressful typically. However, if you hate math, RT school will be an absolute suck
  5. Experienced ROSC with asystole, no survival to discharge
  6. About 70 miles one way. Takes a bit over an hour and gas prices are a killer. However, I have a job so I'm not too keen to complain...for the most
  7. Some of us don't really care about NP independent practice. Personally, I feel too much time and effort is being spent pushing that agenda and too little time and effort is being spent focusing on the...
  8. Readers Digest version: Mean doctors are holding back nurse practitioners and we best do something about
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    Ketamine for adults while intubated?

    Ketamine has several potential benefits: It can augment cardiac output. It has analgesic, amnesic, sedative and anaesthetic properties. It can preserve protective reflexes. It may be beneficial over...
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    Pharmacists giving injections!?!

    I have yet to see compelling evidence with conclusions that state pharmacists administering vaccinations is inherently dangerous other than "in my N=1, n=1 experience I saw this." A clarification: I...
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    Pharmacists giving injections!?!

    Anecdotal experience is probably not the best method for making a valid argument
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    Pharmacists giving injections!?!

    Nursing is more than able to evolve. We are afraid of pharmacists encroaching on our turf, but become upset when physicians feel the same about the nurse practitioner proliferation that is occurring?...
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    Nurses, perception difference and education

    Differences in perception exist in every profession and even among the most educated people. In fact, the perception of our physical world has been the topic of much intense debate among physicists....
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    Pharmacists giving injections!?!

    The situation that started this thread did not involve a hospital, it involved somebody going into the pharmacy at a store. Again, I see no problem with a pharmacist in his/her pharmacy administering...
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    Does this make me an "RN snob"?

    Agreed, the strongest argument would be one with concerns about
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    Does this make me an "RN snob"?

    My issue is that you appear to be upset for the wrong
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    Pharmacists giving injections!?!

    Agree with the general consensus. Administering injections is not specific to nursing and a pharmacists education in physical science far exceeds that of most nurses. I'd be more than happy to allow a...
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    Dream job if you weren't an RN

    A chemist researching topics in either physical or quantum chemistry with colleagues in Europe, perhaps at
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    Any RNs out there who switched to RT

    No, you will work with critically ill and injured patients. You may even find yourself discontinuing ventilation on patients and allowing them to die. There are respiratory specialties where life and...
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    Any RNs out there who switched to RT

    Looks like somebody snitched on me. LOL I am a fairly new RRT. Made the transition a few years ago after I destroyed my back. I'm very happy, but still keep an active RN license and occasionally work...
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    Most useful items to pack-medical mission

    Cipro or Levaquin are a must. Often overlooked, but it's nearly impossible to avoid exposure to indigenous food related
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    Needle Chest Decompression?

    Even then, I see no use. Needle decompression is for a very specific condition. If the condition is not identified clinically, then a needle should not be
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    Needle Chest Decompression?

    Even in the field, I've only performed pleural decompression once on a trauma code where we were working through our list of differentials (H's & T's). In the hospital, once I believe on a...
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    accelerated bsn

    WGU may be an option, with sufficient time and motivation, it's possible to finish a BSN in six
  25. Buy now and we will throw in an inversion bed for free. Just kidding, sort of. Not impressed unless there are large, well designed, reproducible and peer reviewed studies. As a chronic pain sufferer,...