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shandsburnRN-CRNA

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  1. Any Santa Fe CC RN grads or students out there?

    shandsburnRN-CRNA replied to Monty78's topic in Florida Nursing

    I graduated from Santa Fe in 2005. I was part of the Paramedic to RN Bridge Program so our points worked differently (our course was only a year)...but I can tell you to study hard and keep up with...

  2. Nurse Practitioners in the burn unit

    shandsburnRN-CRNA replied to nursefischer's topic in Burn

    We have two NP's in our unit (both acute care) one is our nurse manager the other works in our clinic and the ICU. Our NP writes orders but performs to procedures outside of simple suturing....

  3. Early ambulation for patient underwent skin grafting

    shandsburnRN-CRNA replied to micola75's topic in Burn

    In my unit new grafts stay wrapped and immobilized until POD 3 and then full OT/PT is restarted unless something out of the ordinary is seen when dressings are first taken down (i.e. graft not...

  4. Student in need of help-paper about the psychological effetcs of burn unit nurses

    shandsburnRN-CRNA replied to Ksuprenursingjess's topic in Burn

    Very rewarding, challenging and very sad at the same time. Burn patients are the bravest patients I have ever seen. It can be very tiring, hot, stressful, physical and draining. We very often have...

  5. what is the prognosis?

    shandsburnRN-CRNA replied to scrmblr's topic in Burn

    Well if the burns are truly third degree and truly circumfrential, pulses should be assessed hourly and intra-abdominal pressures should also be monitored. Esharotomies will probably be needed to...

  6. tar removal

    shandsburnRN-CRNA replied to jimminy's topic in Burn

    We use mineral oil here. I'm surprised there are units that use mayo for burn care. Talk about a huge medium for bacteria growth, aren't our patients compromised

  7. Question about securement of ETT in burn patients

    shandsburnRN-CRNA replied to jgsatx's topic in Burn

    We use cloth twill tape and change them PRN. We use Bacitracin on our face burns unless they are deep second or third, then we use Mafenide

  8. Shout out to my fellow burn nurses!

    shandsburnRN-CRNA replied to anvano412's topic in Burn

    Sup, We are an 8 bed burn unit and take burn patients of all ages, sizes, acuity. I have been here for a little of 2 years, came in right out of school, paramedic for 7 years previous. I like it...

  9. After graduation present.......

    shandsburnRN-CRNA replied to gasgiver's topic in Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist

    Still don't if I'm even in for the Jan 2008 class yet. But when I graduate the family and I are going on one of those "mac-daddy" 14 day

  10. What to study before admission?

    shandsburnRN-CRNA replied to Burnt2's topic in Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist

    I'm still waiting to hear if I'm in or not, but I plan on taking another organic chem course just to give myself a fresh chemistry brain going in to the

  11. School tuition????????/

    shandsburnRN-CRNA replied to idatz3's topic in Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist

    Barry in Florida is about $40,000 just for tuition, not to include books, labs fees, living

  12. How important is shadowing a CRNA?

    shandsburnRN-CRNA replied to Burnt2's topic in Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist

    TRUE, TRUE!! I shadowed a couple of CRNA's prior to my interview. I can say it made even more excited to get into the profession. With the anesthesia team I shadowed in the most noticeable...

  13. Medic to CRNA transition

    shandsburnRN-CRNA replied to hyper_dermic's topic in Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist

    I think that is best route, they you will know for sure, straight from the horses

  14. Medic to CRNA transition

    shandsburnRN-CRNA replied to hyper_dermic's topic in Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist

    Hi, I too am a Paramedic and I am in the process of getting into CRNA school, as a matter of fact I interviewed today at Barry University here in Florida. The skinny of it is you are going to have be...

  15. GRE Study Books

    shandsburnRN-CRNA replied to longroadahead's topic in Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist

    I used Barron and GRE for Dummies. The latter was very straight forward and cut to the

  16. Neurosurgical ICU or Medical ICU?

    shandsburnRN-CRNA replied to NSURN's topic in Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist

    I have an interview with Barry Univ in 4 days, with that said. I have worked in a Burn ICU for just over two years now. Other than balloon pumps and ventric's I have dealt with every vasoactive gtt,...

  17. Have you heard of anyone being accepted.....

    shandsburnRN-CRNA replied to radrn2001's topic in Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist

    I was still completing my RN-BSN when I applied to Barry. I have sinced finished it but I was notified of my pending interview prior to my graduation. My interview is the

  18. CRNA interview--please help

    shandsburnRN-CRNA replied to chrissyRN's topic in Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist

    CONGRATS ChrissyRN, I have an interview with Barry July 16th, and man I am nervous. How was the interview and the test? Hopefully I'll be starting with you in 2008. One other question, why Fall...