SummitRN BSN, RN

ICU + Infection Prevention

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  1. 1. I don't think there are any hospitals with a bad rep. The major hospital corporations are HealthOne (HCA), Centura (CHI), and Exempla. Then there are the academic facilities: University, Denver...
  2. The deep pockets theory is somewhat true, but not completely true. Thus, I think it is better to have litigation insurance. Your lawyer is free. When the plaintiff sues you, the hospital, the...
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    MICU VS SICU

    Very general: SICU - I know what is wrong, so let's push the patient to get better. MICU - Which of the million things wrong with my patient is causing
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    CCEMT-P?

    Trauma Surfer... what is your opinion of air ambulances (which primarily deal in CCT) using Nurse/Medic staffing? That seems to be the most common staffing (a few are Nurse/Nurse or Nurse/RRT or even...
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    A Complicated Surgery for a Politician

    Stellar!!!
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    At night, I dress up as a Nurse :)

    Night nurses go to work in their pajamas... er...
  7. Medical students have no authority or license. It isn't illegal. It is
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    EMS hitch this one takes the Cake!!

    From what OP said, it sounds like the LPN had a problem with prioritization and professional attitude. OP, how did the RN react? How did you, the RN, and the LPN proceed with the situation from there?...
  9. The fact that most people on your unit are certified and that most of those who are not have tried and failed to become certified offers no meaningful justification to your prior position. The...
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    New grads and the VA

    You could certainly apply within a month before graduation due to the length of the application process and there appropriate places to mark in the paperwork that you are an expected
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    Shift change and visitation in ICU/stepdown

    We have 24 hour visitation. The other day a patient's family member came out of the room and interrupted report with some information and questions. Luckily, the interruption was brief. I could see it...
  12. It wasn't clear which part of the quote you were responding to, and I assumed it was the first part, not the second, thus my response. Sorry we had this misunderstanding (apparently I wasn't the only...
  13. You seriously think a physician has an equal level of responsibility compared to a RN? Simply comparing the maximum consequence and finding them equal, then concluding there is an equal level of...
  14. The main reasons I chose nursing over medicine were the flexibility and ability to transfer specialties, and the ability to go into practice in half the time making twice per hour what physicians make...
  15. Then you have to cut the number of nursing school admission slots by more than 50%. The hospitals are saturated. Even good schools are fighting tooth and nail for acute care placements for their...
  16. The only nursing journal I read is American Journal of Critical Care, but honestly I threw the last one straight in the trash. Give me the NEJM, Lancet, Wilderness & Environmental Medicine and the...
  17. Wow.... spot
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    New name for nurses who are men

    My name badge reads "Staff Ninja - Clan
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    Regis ABSN- Summer 2013

    1/3 the cost at Rio Salado online - Rio Salado College | Rio Salado
  20. ^Well said nursel56 I find it shocking that people can talk about the caring profession of nursing and empathy, and in their next breath say "It didn't bother me, therefor everyone else should feel...
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    Share Your Full Moon Stories

    I feel this way as well. Critical thinking? What's
  22. To get into school, you probably needed to be functional with algebra and pass a basic statistics class. To be a RN on a day-to-day basis, you need to be able to do middle school math. To do your job...
  23. 1. I am a RN, not a student. 2. During school, I performed bedbaths on my classmates, and they on me, and I did not voice an objection based on a simplistic game theory approach. In a phrase, it was...