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  1. Smart Cardiac Nurses

    poppy07 replied to kleona's topic in CCU, Coronary, Cardiac

    Great scenario... Could be pre-renal problem- dehydration, elevating the creatinine & possibly BUN. In turn, with less than optimal kidney function, the production of erythropoeitin may be...

  2. Smart Cardiac Nurses

    poppy07 replied to kleona's topic in CCU, Coronary, Cardiac

    Great scenario... Could be pre-renal problem- dehydration, elevating the creatinine & possibly BUN. In turn, with less than optimal kidney function, the production of erythropoeitin may be...

  3. Rapid Infuser........

    poppy07 replied to poppy07's topic in MICU, SICU

    A Los Angeles transfusion service physician reports that in his opinion there is no restriction to giving a patient multiple transfusions simultaneously, so long as one observes some basic rules....

  4. ICU to PACU

    poppy07 replied to dmarie1075's topic in PACU

    I'm also in a position in ICU where I want to really learn. I never received a good orientation, and would like to go somewhere else that offers a supportive learning environment and exposes me to...

  5. ICU to CRNA

    poppy07 replied to poppy07's topic in Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist

    That link was really perfect! Thank you :

  6. ICU to CRNA

    poppy07 posted a topic in Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist

    I'm working ICU, love the challenge, and am considering CRNA down the road. Working as a CRNA, how are your job responsibilities similar to that experienced in ICU? Also, what from your job...

  7. Is this enough to get in???

    poppy07 replied to lovegasRN's topic in Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist

    while the application states, "recommendation letter from professor/dean/director" etc... you instead included letters from others in substitution, and there was no problem with that? do you think...

  8. How do you manage personalities of different people You meet in the clinical?

    poppy07 replied to jin00005's topic in Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist

    miloisstinky love it! : )

  9. ICU to CRNA

    poppy07 posted a topic in Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist

    I'm working ICU, love the challenge, and am considering CRNA down the road. Working as a CRNA, how are your job responsibilities similar to that experienced in ICU? Also, what from your job...

  10. Is this enough to get in???

    poppy07 replied to lovegasRN's topic in Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist

    as for letters of recommendation: are these applications specifying where they must come from? for example, I have one app. that requires one from the dean/director of the nursing program I...

  11. Crummy ICU orientation EVAL

    poppy07 posted a topic in MICU, SICU

    I finished up my ICU orientation in November. I had a preceptor, who was only an RN for a year or so herself, and only stayed at my side for maybe a couple weeks-if that. She seemed to have assumed...

  12. Crummy ICU orientation EVAL

    poppy07 replied to poppy07's topic in MICU, SICU

    It kind of is a 'secret' or unknown to those who matter though. The director of nursing and nurse manager think very highly of this preceptor and even wrote letters of recommendation for her to get...

  13. Crummy ICU orientation EVAL

    poppy07 replied to poppy07's topic in MICU, SICU

    that's my concern...i don't want to jeopardize any aspect of MY job. I only want to work at this hospital a little over a year, and then move somewhere else and work with my experience. don't want...

  14. Crummy ICU orientation EVAL

    poppy07 replied to poppy07's topic in MICU, SICU

    thanks for your replies. i completely agree with the idea that she shouldn't have been a preceptor with so little experience... sometimes, you have to take what you can get and just learn from who...

  15. constant factor

    poppy07 replied to siam's topic in MICU, SICU

    there are 1000 mcg in 1 mg. that's all you need to

  16. ICU Essentials!

    poppy07 replied to natnurse23's topic in MICU, SICU

    Good things to know when first starting out.... Labs: at least: BMP (Chem7), CBC, PT/INR/PTT, ABG's Vent: modes, such as A/C or CMV, SIMV, CPAP gtts: Levophed or Norepi, Neo or Phenylephrine,...

  17. IV in Emergency?

    poppy07 replied to CEG's topic in Ob/Gyn

    I'm not sure I'm understanding this correctly...is it truly a question whether having an IV is needed in an emergency situation? How about needing to intubate, control pressures, rhythms,

  18. Do all the ICU RNs gossip?

    poppy07 posted a topic in MICU, SICU

    What's the deal? It seems like everyone in our unit gossips about each other, behind the back or even in front of another's face! I can't stand this

  19. Absolute No-No's

    poppy07 replied to Drysolong's topic in General Nursing

    "I want you to remember this statement when you have an 8 patient assignment on a floor when you are supposed to only have 5, the CNA and the Unit Clerk are out sick with a stomach virus which you...

  20. A case of DKA & chest pain

    poppy07 posted a topic in MICU, SICU

    I thought this was a fairly interesting patient... young lady comes in with DKA and chest pain. Her glucose in the 300's, put on NS and received nitro paste % continuous rate insulin drip, while in...

  21. The Top 10 List!!

    poppy07 replied to goinforit's topic in Neuro Intensive Care, ICU

    what efforts do you make to control/reduce ICP, how about turning and repositioning

  22. A case of DKA & chest pain

    poppy07 replied to poppy07's topic in MICU, SICU

    it's possible with the rapid fluid shifts that cerebral edema can

  23. urinary bladder irrigation

    poppy07 replied to dominican_n's topic in General Nursing

    well, just think about it. it's always best to know WHY you are doing something. So why do you perform a bladder irrigation? How do you know if what you are doing is

  24. Needing Info on Neuro Breath

    poppy07 replied to topkat's topic in Neuro Intensive Care, ICU

    I read here you try to keep the Na+ level 150... what is the

  25. You know you're a neuro nurse if.....

    poppy07 replied to Elenaster's topic in Neuro Intensive Care, ICU

    that's so interesting. I've had quite a number of neuro patients recently, and I'll admit they do have a distinct odor. Last week, I cared for a pt with Locked-in Syndrome...how sad, anyway, I gave...