celticcare

celticcare has 3 years experience and specializes in Cardiology, Emergency.

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1. Paramedic Students

   celticcare posted a topic in Emergency

   Hi all, I am currently practicing as an RN in a metropolitin ER in New Zealand. We have student nurses coming in and doing their rotations and have a preceptored and set program for their period of time here. We also have paramedic students come in a...

2. Is the nursing experience better or worse than when you started?

   celticcare replied to KalipsoRed's topic in General Nursing

   I used to get an amazing rush every shift when I put on my uniform, pinned on my medal and smiled in the mirror prior to going to work. I used to get the warm fuzzies when I was asked what did I do for a job or whats it like to be a nurse. Then the r...

3. How long until you were pretty good at IV starts?

   celticcare replied to sweetER's topic in Emergency

   I found I was good at them at first, then took an 8 month break from nursing for a while *needed to find if it was the career for me, thankfully it is :) * and then hard a real hard time cannulating. I have good days and bad days, I felt proud of get...

4. Soft scrubs for a tall skinny male=don't exist

   celticcare replied to phosophorus's topic in Men

   I am lucky, my hospital custom made scrubs for me as I am tall and skinny as well. Most of my female counterparts are of the opposite direction and so they have more scrubs for their sizes rather than ours. good luck mate, I hear you on the hunting.

5. Guys, do you wear your wedding band to work?

   celticcare replied to JaredCNA's topic in Men

   I am getting married October this year and intend to wear my wedding band on my hand. Compared to some of the rings my female colleagues wear which have diamonds sticking out etc *against dress code but its not often enforced* I think a simple weddin...

6. Giving Nitro Spray

   celticcare replied to naddie01's topic in Emergency

   Agree with the other posters, just curious if the BP had been consistently above the 100 mark or teetering? I would have had the IV ready and given 1 to 2 squirts. Then reassessed BP and monitor Chest pain scores. It's tough with any new med in the f...

7. Someone calling themselves a Nurse when not.Help please!

   celticcare replied to ProudofmyNursingart's topic in International

   My understanding of it, is if the person is professing to be an RN, then he is under the accusation of impersinating a registered health proffesional and is accountable under the HPCA act 2003. Anyone, in the general dictionary sense, can be a "nurs...

8. Male nursing and needing chaperone

   celticcare replied to Sirkraker's topic in Men

   I give my patients the option when I meet them, I let them have the power in their court and reaffirm that I will not be offended if they request a female nurse. I work currently in CCU and of course, 12 leads involve going under/around breast tissue...

9. Why did you become a ccu nurse?

   celticcare replied to ccuNEWBIE012087's topic in CCU

   CCU is where I came into as a New Grad. To me, cardiology is a new world, Ecg is a new language and without the heart, there is no circulating blood to the body to keep everything awake. I like the patient/RN ratio where you can know your patients, ...

10. takotsubo syndrome "broken heart"

    celticcare replied to caeRn's topic in CCU

    We have had a run of them here lately, come in with typical MI symptoms, trop rise, ecg changes, go to the cath lab and boom, clean normal arteries. Each patient that I have had personally, seems to do well out in the community on the medications an...

11. Accronyms/abbreviations

    celticcare posted a topic in CCU

    Hi all, I've come into the current CCU that I am in now, after completing my New Grad year in another. And I'm adjusting to a few different things. One being the accronyms used here. Every class I've taken and book I have used, calls PVC's that, PVC...

12. Your dad,uncle,cousin,etc. is a what?

    celticcare replied to RNman09's topic in Men

    My daughter gets funny looks from the kids at school when she says her daddy is a nurse "only girls are nurses" is the common reply, but then they see her mother and I together *we are engaged to be married* and she is a nurse also.... I guess our li...

13. Don't you want to be a Doctor?

    celticcare replied to silentRN's topic in Men

    Part of me has a yang inside to be a doctor I wont lie there, but then I relate to the reality that I would have no life and I actually really enjoy the work with people, the sitting down with my patients and being the listening ear, the support work...

14. Paramedic or Pre-Hospital RN?

    celticcare replied to djd7101986's topic in Men

    Hey I hope the right answer has made itself known to you after reading these responses. I ran Pre hospital and did my BHSc (Nursing) as well. I love pre hospital and would love to have a role as a pre hospital RN, but that role doesn't exist in New Z...

15. What do you never leave home without?

    celticcare replied to RNCRNA2BE's topic in CCU

    Thanks also from me for this thread, its great to get some ideas as CCU is where I want to start working when I graduate. Great to know what to get and sort of things to have to get used to carrying them or using them on my final clinical rotations. ...