apocatastasis

apocatastasis

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  1. Considering relocating to San Antonio, Dallas or Austin

    apocatastasis replied to m2nurse's topic in Texas Nursing

    well, i'm from new orleans and have lived in houston and austin... and i'm 25 years old and gay, so i'm probably coming from a different angle than you might be. for me, san antonio just seems to be...

  2. Considering relocating to San Antonio, Dallas or Austin

    apocatastasis replied to m2nurse's topic in Texas Nursing

    It's easier to get a job in SA than in Austin, for sure, but be sure you really want to live here. I moved to SA for work 8 months ago from Austin as there were no jobs in Austin, both main hospital...

  3. What is the highest temp you have seen?

    apocatastasis replied to momthenRN's topic in MICU, SICU

    I had a patient who'd coded in OR and was brought back to ICU. When I took his midnight temp, it had gone up to 106.7 from 99 two hours prior. No real neuro function. Guy was

  4. Intensive Care Patient Gowns

    apocatastasis replied to Jennifer Opie's topic in General Nursing

    Same here. Snap sleeves. No matter what lines you got going where, you can always lift up an arm, tuck half the sleeve under, bring around to front, and snap it on. Dunno why that'd be so

  5. Do you actually memorize all pts meds?

    apocatastasis replied to Nuieve's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    I'm still a pretty new RN (7 months) and I'll third the above. Don't care even if I "know" a patient's meds or I "know" a med is Q8 and a dose is due, I still check against the MAR when I pull it....

  6. Is there anything at all about nursing that you don't like?

    apocatastasis replied to johnnyDoGood's topic in General Nursing

    lack of autonomy. nursing

  7. What is "otho"?

    apocatastasis replied to CC918's topic in General Nursing

    I'm guessing somebody left an R out

  8. California nurses and medical marijuana

    apocatastasis replied to DirtyBlackSocks's topic in Pain Management

    I'm not entirely sure WHY whenever marijuana is mentioned, a certain segment of the population cries "patient safety." News flash: alcohol is legal and we're not all coming to work impaired. Stop...

  9. Difficult doctors... dealing with?

    apocatastasis replied to CloudySue's topic in General Nursing

    I find that a well-timed "Are you done yet?" works

  10. How can new nurse be sure of her charting ?

    apocatastasis replied to jollygirl098's topic in General Nursing

    For sure. Try to chart as soon as you can, particularly the important things like turning and meds. Also, don't be too hard on yourself, you are going to make mistakes, everyone

  11. Should this have been an incident report?

    apocatastasis replied to emoening's topic in First Year After Licensure

    In Texas, at least, doctors can write orders for an RNs to get a consent signed. The doc is still supposed to discuss the procedure... why they can't also get a patient to sign on the line is beyond...

  12. ICU nurses, Is 3:1 patient to nurse ratio a common occurence or am I just tripping?

    apocatastasis replied to Scrubs911's topic in MICU, SICU

    We are supposed to be 1:1 or 1:2 in our ICU but more and more are 1:3 because our staff retention rates are terrible and nurses are leaving right and left... bad management... there was uproar in the...

  13. Should this have been an incident report?

    apocatastasis replied to emoening's topic in First Year After Licensure

    That may or may not be a false assumption. Lots of ICU nurses work or have worked the floor, and we deal with time constraints as well. The issue is simply that the ICU RN is a you-know-what. I'm a...

  14. Should this have been an incident report?

    apocatastasis replied to emoening's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I'm an ICU nurse. I'd never have done to you what that other ICU nurse did. She sounds like she was looking for trouble, and you were her victim. Don't sweat

  15. Nursing Students and Substance Abuse

    apocatastasis replied to VickyRN's topic in Nursing Educators, Faculty

    That's ridiculous. I hardly ever went to class in nursing school, not because I was drinking, but because nursing school is overall a joke and an enormous waste of time. I started getting flack from...

  16. First time you put your stamp on the world as "RN"

    apocatastasis replied to Emergency RN's topic in General Nursing

    I agree with Bortaz, I was in the ICU and thought to myself about how stupid nursing school seemed at the time. Of course, for the next week, my preceptor repeateadly had to hunt me down to resign...

  17. ICU Psychosis ?????

    apocatastasis replied to loricatus's topic in MICU, SICU

    I work nights and had a patient with this a couple of days ago, and it was the most frustrating thing. He'd come in with CP and dizziness, lab draws revealed elevated cardiac enzymes. Diagnosed with...

  18. Questions about Austin/San Antonio

    apocatastasis posted a topic in Texas Nursing

    Hi all. I'm an alternate-entry MSN student at UT-Austin in the FPMHNP track, about to start last semester before NCLEX in August. I'm in kind of a complicated predicament, so I was wondering if...

  19. Questions about Austin/San Antonio

    apocatastasis replied to apocatastasis's topic in Texas Nursing

    If you own real property in Texas, you are paying taxes to the state and will be qualified as a Texas resident. :) I actually met an RN at Scott & White recently... I'll have to look into their...

  20. Hairstyle best for nursing

    apocatastasis replied to mom35's topic in General Nursing

    I do shave. But I guess that's one benefit to being a

  21. PMHNP schools in/around Austin

    apocatastasis replied to luv2yoga's topic in Texas Nursing

    I'm in the Alternate Entry MSN program at UT-Austin... I know this thread's dead, but just FYI, UT is in the process of creating a PMHNP program. 2 of my classmates and I are the first members/guinea...

  22. Are Accelerated programs worth the money!

    apocatastasis replied to Firenurse81's topic in General Nursing

    I'm almost 12 months into the Alternate-Entry MSN program at UT-Austin... 4 months to go in this awful pre-NCLEX marathon! I'm of two minds about it and can only speak for my experience; if you asked...

  23. UT-Austin Direct Entry MSN Applicants?

    apocatastasis posted a topic in Post Graduate Students

    Howdy all, This evening I was checking the status check for my application at UT-Austin for their Alternate Entry MSN program, and to my relief I was given the thumbs up by the grad school (I have...

  24. OB Rotation is Hell

    apocatastasis replied to Cartman1532's topic in Male Nursing Students

    OB rotation *is* hell, and it certainly hasn't been my experience that there's no modesty in labor. When I did L+D two weeks ago, I was prevented from seeing ANY births at all because neither of the...

  25. CNA's Not Wanting to Listen to Student Nurses

    apocatastasis replied to jjhunt's topic in General Students

    As a nursing student in the third semester of an accelerated Master's program, I take issue with some of the opinions in this thread. We have never had less than 2 patients, even on my first day of...