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I think the thing many are forgetting is you may be able to run 1000mcg/min of a certain drug but there comes a point where more isn't necessarily better.

Not to be too descriptive but I admitted a nice older lady from the ER last night. She was coming in with SOB d/t (from what the ER told me) a chronic condition that had apparently been somewhat stable. She was a DNR. She woke up about 0300 and I ga...

Hey, I'm an RN looking into possibly going to NP school. I was wondering if some of you wouldn't mind sharing some info with me. What kind of NP are you? (acute care, peds...) How many hours do you work a week? How many hours do you take call a week?...

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Thanks for your thoughts everyone. It's not that dying as a whole upsets me, almost 1/2 of the pt's I take care of sometimes will never make it out of my unit and I know that. The weird thing with this lady was that it was so quick and I hadn't even...

It sounds like you are freaking out about the test to me. IMO, the number one rule when taking NCLEX is to not freak out. If you failed with 75 questions then you are either not taking in the material correctly, freaking out or a combination of both....

Do you ICU nurses ever have more than 2 pt's? How often if you do? We get 3 pt's every now and then, usually one or two of them are waiting to transfer in the AM. My main question is how do you deal with being assigned a third pt, mainly when someon...

Most of all I would say that I'm laid back. I think one of the most important parts of being a good ICU nurse is your ability to remain calm when everything else is going downhill. I'm also very task oriented, if there is work to be done it's going t...

The math tests that you are required to pass are on basic drug calculations, very easy. The teachers tell you exactly what you need to know. When I went to Jeff State we had 2 times to pass with a 90 every semester. Jeff State's nursing program is no...

We had a list and they stopped doing it because they said it was "stupid." I'm not sure how but whatever. It's not really a problem but when I'm taking care of 3 and the nurse next to me has 1 and is doing nothing it kind of ticks me off.

I'm usually not angry when I get three patient's. Sometimes you can't help getting a third patient when you're short staffed. The only time I get mad is if I get the third patient when some other nurses haven't had a third patient in forever and less...

You must be looking in the wrong place. Brookwood has several jobs posted, including ICU.

I knew a guy that worked there before he graduated. Call up to the ER and see if you can get in touch with the Nurse Manager or ER director. If you can't get in touch with them I use to work in the ER at Brookwood and could possibly hook you up.

When an MD "holds" a med it is automatically dc'd by pharmacy to prevent this info from getting lost in report to the next nurse or one nurse not writing it on the MAR. The MD should write it on his progress notes or something so that they will remem...

You passed.

The residency programs requires a BSN and you don't have to go through that. The residency program is for people who don't know exactly what they want to do and it allows them to work in more than one area for a couple of weeks. At the end of the pro...

Who really cares? I'm a male nurse and there isn't really a difference. I work with a lot of other nurses who are male.

I think Jeff State generally requires a little bit of a higher score to get into. I had a friend that got into Wallace with 155 (she failed out twice). Jeff State admits during the summer.

Kaplan is the best. They use old NCLEX questions in their material.

Review courses are helpful but not always necessary. 50-60% on NCLEX practice tests is actually decent. At first I was scoring around there on Kaplan's NCLEX questions but then I was getting in the 70's and 80's. You are not going to make an "A" on t...

Pt resting in bed, arousable to voice. VS per flowsheet. Call light within reach. Denies pain. Denies needs.

Nurses are nurses and everybody needs them. I don't think it will be much harder to find a job if it passes as it is now.

Why in the world would you ever call a doctor to find out if you need to hold a med or something???????? As nurses we should all know when to hold meds, especially something such as insulin. In your case, I wouldn't have given it. A blood glucose le...

Brookwood is hiring and is the best place for new grads. If hired you would start in a "residency program" for 12 weeks. This consist of class 1 day a week for 12 weeks along with other things. If you can get on at Brookwood do it but it's hard to g...

The hardest part of 2nd semester for me was adjusting to the types of tests you take. In first semester the questions are more knowledge based. In 2nd semester everything is application based and you may have 4 right answers you just have to decide w...