tangerinetea

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1. Why I don't tell my family...

   tangerinetea replied to umcRN's topic in PICU, Pediatric

   We were more worried about the neurological outcome in this case after a 15 minute down time of CPR during transportation to our hospital, the awful DIC, the terribly low sats for 3 hours, they had...

2. Why I don't tell my family...

   tangerinetea replied to umcRN's topic in PICU, Pediatric

   I understand where you come from and can totally relate. Where I work it is usually in the case of our long-term patients where we do everything and anything in a sort of Concorde fallacy way because...

3. Why I don't tell my family...

   tangerinetea replied to umcRN's topic in PICU, Pediatric

   I see your perspective, but my family don't ask because it makes them TOO sad when I tell them about a child, even one that is going to be just fine. People will NEVER understand what we do, how we...

4. Need RN's opinion- BIG clinical mistake

   tangerinetea replied to CrazyheadSN's topic in General Nursing

   Don't worry about it. I honestly commend you for being so onto it about knowing your anti hypertensives, reviewing PRN medicines, making a conscientious decision to treat the problem - that to me all...

5. Dream job...no longer my dream job??

   tangerinetea replied to HopefulRN2010's topic in General Nursing

   Hahah... Try a slow night in PICU, in a side room with a sedated & tubed patient. PICU has lazy-boys and magazines = Your dream job! (Me last

6. Dream job...no longer my dream job??

   tangerinetea replied to HopefulRN2010's topic in General Nursing

   I am a PICU nurse who started out there from the very beginning so I may have a biased view, but bear with me because I think I went through something similar that a few people have mentioned here....

7. Training in NZ, new graduate programmes overseas?

   tangerinetea posted a topic in International Nursing

   i'm training to become an rn in new zealand, but really want to work overseas when i graduate. has anyone here that has trained in nz or australia done their new graduate programme