RedZeppelinRN

RedZeppelinRN

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About RedZeppelinRN

RedZeppelinRN specializes in med/surg.


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  1. Hospital math tests during orientation?

    This appears to be a good way to reduce medication
  2. Horrible hospital experience!

    I had a similar experience. Had an arthroscopy of my shoulder. Surgeon absolutely perfect. It was supposed to be an outpatient surgery. My heart rate was high for some reason. So my doctor sent...
  3. My First Code

    Bless your heart. Great that you had the insight about adrenaline
  4. Conscious Sedation

    sorry to bother
  5. Conscious Sedation

    Hi Buck: I am an RN. I have go for cautery endoscopy every six months for a rare disorder, AVM of the stomach or "watermelon stomach." I started out with this about 2-3 years ago when it developed...
  6. Sharp Hospital

    Sharp is not the only hospital. SDSU, Alvarado, Scripps, Kaiser, Kindred. Rare to find a Caucasian nurse in nursing homes. There is a strong non-caucasian group that are deemed a "protected class"...
  7. My First Code

    My first job in nursing was a teaching hospital. Green that I was, when I had witnessed and participated in so many codes, I realized these were terminal patients and this was a teaching hospital....
  8. Dishes: This is very good advice. I have attended a job interviewing and resume writing class. They stress that volunteering is a very good place to network. I did this at a hospital years ago, and...
  9. If you live in CA, San Diego specifically, SDSU has a program for new grads. So if you are an experienced nurse, forget it. I also had a recruiter at another hospital tell me I would I would be...
  10. UCSD - age discrimination

    Good point,
  11. UCSD - age discrimination

    I don't know how they could make an approximate estimate if you have taken time out, raised kids, did not work in nursing for certain periods of time. It is just a curiousty. I really have no...
  12. UCSD - age discrimination

    No. But I believe date of graduation could easily provide a close approximation to
  13. UCSD - age discrimination

    This question always comes at the very last of your application. Your resume shows your work
  14. UCSD - age discrimination

    Just curious. In the past when I have posted resumes with UCSD, at the end of the application, it asks for the year you graduated as an RN. Is this a way to get around age
  15. Someone should warn people!!!

    What is a nurse intern? Is that like being a CNA, or is something liking being