Dinith88

If you are competent, you would do better than any new nurse. Period. You'll have experience with critically-sick patients and what goes along with all of that...so you should be comfortable when dealing when caring for these patients. You should ha...

Dude..you are totally freaking out for no reason...

And...most women (and all men) who have this attitude are at least mildly homophobic, typically lower-class/income, resentful (for a number of reasons), have poor self esteem, and a very limited life experience/world view. Without fail. Easy to pick ...

Hey man. Bros before Hos! YOu'll do fine.

Dont be afraid of it. I say go for it. People come to the ICU all the time who die...and will die regardless of what you do or what machine/machines we use...and...when they die it doesnt mean it's your fault or your responsibility or... Or..a bett...

International project? Have you been talking with Xigris reps/Eli Lily? :)

That's it sissies..I'm gonna kick your butts! (cracks knuckles)

Yes Takotsubo reverses... usually within a few weeks to a few months. Cardiac function usually returns to baseline in that time. In my experience with it, an initial improvement occurs over a few-to-several days but residual HF symptoms can take long...

I smell an inferiority complex here. Or just an unhappy dork.

Spoken like a new grad. I'm glad you get confused for a seasoned nurse. Kudos.

New grads can be ok going into ICU (or any other department). There's just a bigger (much bigger) learning curve than with experienced nurses who migrate to ICU. And regardless...even when a new -grad becomes a 1 year, 2 year, or even a 3 year nurse...

Holy crap that is the funniest thing i've read here in a long time. If i'd have posted that i would've been reprimanded by the allnurses post-police. Watch it...cuz they've got their eye on you now.

I disagree with those who are posting "...well...thats just life in the ICU....". I understand where they're coming from, in that we're constantly...daily...exposed to all this suffering and death and tragedy...and... BUT...from your post you mention...

Nah thats wrong. The reason for this is because (forgive me if this has been stated already), In the vast majority of ICU's there are no doctors there 24/7. Yes, certainly there are many hospitals that have intensivists, and hospitalists, and etc... ...

True that! (cyber knuckle-bump...bros before hos)

Females like being laterally violent (what is that?)... or females like doing research???

Wow...i felt like i was reading excerpts from Burrough's, 'Naked Lunch'... Your story is both frightening...and (more than a little) funny (for a quasi-burnt-out-nurse...please accept my apology if that insults you). Break-out the Haldol and four-poi...

You make fair points. And i agree.

I'm kicking myself because i keep looking at this thread! But because i was personally insulted my curiosity gets the best of me...but wow...your post is a perfect example of what i was talking about. I cut it to highlight my point... So...my respons...

Ouch! You wound me with your cyber-barbs!! ignorant of me to point out generalizations? Forgive me if you mistakenly assumed i meant ER nurses are inferior. That wasn't the point. Seriously. I am a firm believer you cant judge a nurse by the unit s...

This post...and the bazillion other posts like it share common threads...and can kind-of shed light into the roots of this 'cross-unit animosity'....just read them.... First off, it's a generalization...specific to YOUR hospital...and the people YOU...

really depends on where you are geographically. Around here, there is a 'glut' of people wanting to become nurses...so schools are very selective. Meaning they typically take those with the best GPA's/records...it's unfortunately fairly common for s...

Yes! ...but you should qualify that by stating that it only helps if the patient is calcium deficient (as is fairly common s/p CABG). It wont 'do the opposite' and raise BP otherwise...