SummitRN BSN, RN

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    Max dose on drips

    SummitRN replied to harley91013's topic in CCU, Coronary, Cardiac

    Weight based dosing for levophed goes to 1mcg/kg/min which is higher than 30mcg/min for most adults. Pharmacist told me that 200mcg/min may be acceptable for some patients over the short term. Hey,...
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    accelerated BSN programs without a degree?

    SummitRN replied to melhart's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    Any BSN program is going to want you to have at least 60 credits when you start the program. How is that accelerated? That is normal for any traditional BSN
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    Nursing exam questions are terrible (according to science)

    SummitRN replied to ericthered's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    One of the favorite refrains of nursing educators when a student runs afoul of academic inanity or institutional incompetence is that the student should not complain, and instead "be 'flexible.'...
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    Advanced practice nurses in trauma?

    SummitRN replied to manda691's topic in Critical Care

    Are they relegated to
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    Are RNs allowed to arterial stick at your hospital?

    SummitRN replied to Deetail's topic in General Nursing

    RNs can do them... typically RNs always leave them for the RTs to do. I try to do art sticks as often as possible to keep my skills up. Plus the RTs love it when they don't have to. We do art sticks...
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    Do you need all those degrees?

    SummitRN replied to dnsonthego's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    Education for education's sake is a virtue I would hope to see in any clinician. Nursing has a reputation for extremely poor managers. I think it is because people are selected for management...
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    Scrub skirts Nurses

    SummitRN replied to Lysa71's topic in Scrubs, Uniforms, Gear

    The only hospital workers I see in skirts are the occasional attending on a service that doesn't require hands on care... and those with desk jobs: secretaries, managers, schedulers, etc. Everyone...
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    Incredibly rude and disrespectful patients and/or their family members

    SummitRN replied to lalexa15's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Assuming it wasn't altered mental status, that urine tossing patient would have had their next conversation with the police at the hospital and would have received either a ticket or a summons, and...
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    Taking away chairs from nursing station

    SummitRN replied to pinkessence_58467's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    Administrators sometimes make decissions in a vacuum. Problem: people are not documenting enough Solution: make it more uncomfortable for people to document Comparisons to jobs that don't require a...
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    End of CCT Nurses in California?

    SummitRN replied to TraumaSurfer's topic in Flight, Surface Transport

    Links? Anything to push the bottom line a little bit,
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    Nursing Schools in Colorado?

    SummitRN replied to maddmaddie's topic in Colorado Nursing

    If I was applying to CO schools from out of state (no in-state tuition), Regis University would be #1 on my list. Actually, it'd be #1
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    Pay for New Grads in Denver Metro

    SummitRN replied to mikkie1317's topic in Colorado Nursing

    I believe healthone/hca pays 21, uch 22, childrens 25, dh 26, and va 27. I don't know for centura or exempla but I've heard
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    Anybody here works for a county health department in CO?

    SummitRN replied to sourapril's topic in Colorado Nursing

    I see some mountain counties constantly hiring, but they pay experienced nurses the same as city new grad pake when local cost of living is 25% higher and demand bilingual. I guess that's why they...
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    Anyone using the NICOM monitors?

    SummitRN posted a topic in Critical Care

    Anyone using the Cheetah Medical NICOM monitor for deterening fluid status? I'm looking for experiences, thoughts, comments, and tips/tricks for implementation and
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    Plagiarism or not?

    SummitRN replied to MSN2's topic in Advanced Practice

    Hope they go easy on you. Next time tell the prof what's going on and ask for an extension based on sever illness with a note from your
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    Colorado New Grads- Do you have jobs?

    SummitRN replied to Work in Progress's topic in Colorado Nursing

    Got a job through my
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    I know nothing about Colorado...

    SummitRN replied to beckster_01's topic in Colorado Nursing

    Living in the mountains is all about quality of environment while sacrificing niceties because you accept a high cost of living without a proportional increase in earnings. While free, the Vail public...
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    Day/Night Rotation...Why seeing more in Travel Jobs

    SummitRN replied to dimplechinRN's topic in Travel

    It shouldn't make anyone look bad to say they don't want rotating shifts. It should make management look bad for ignoring the crushingly abundant evidence that rotating shouldn't be
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    Paying for Course syllabus?

    SummitRN replied to QueenAnnissa's topic in General Students

    I'll go out on a limb and bet that any school charging for a syllabus is a
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    ADN vs. BSN - patient mortality rates

    SummitRN replied to Katniss88's topic in Diploma, ADN, BSN

    For surgery, big and famous hospitals aren't always the best |
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    ER Doc, "I need Succ!"

    SummitRN replied to Adenosine6's topic in Emergency

    Our ED and ICU can place IO. ICU brings them to the code. If your code team doesn't have an IO, that is something worth
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    ER Doc, "I need Succ!"

    SummitRN replied to Adenosine6's topic in Emergency

    What was old is new... we may be all switching to roc if we get sugammadex in the
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    How to find a specialty NP program?

    SummitRN posted a topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    If one had an interest in a specialty, how do you find a program with the appropriate educational focus and clinical support? For example: interventional radiology, intensive care, cardiology, or...
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    ER Doc, "I need Succ!"

    SummitRN replied to Adenosine6's topic in Emergency

    just... wow... i bet the post code debrief was
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    PAWP

    SummitRN replied to LNRN11's topic in CCU, Coronary, Cardiac