Flightline BSN, RN

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  1. Flightline

    Lung Sounds

    Flightline replied to EJSRN's topic in General Nursing

    I do that sometimes too. Interestingly, the modern med/surg book I used to define "rales" no longer mentions rhonchi as an adventitious breath sound and yet it's used all the time in clinical...
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    cna and hospitals

    Flightline replied to meyun06's topic in General Nursing

    In my experience, hospitals train you to be a technician, but having a CNA certificate is a real plus. A tech in a hospital is not a CNA. They are not certified by anyone other than the hospital. If...
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    Lung Sounds

    Flightline replied to EJSRN's topic in General Nursing

    Nope. Rales is the old name for crackles (and I always use rales because crackels sounds too gross). They result from the delayed reopening of deflated airways and sound just like, well, Rice Crispies...
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    What is the difference between monophasic and biphasic defibrillators?

    Flightline replied to EJSRN's topic in General Nursing

    Monophasic is basically DC current. It passes in one direction from one paddle to the next. Biphasic is like an AC jolt, part of the shock goes from one paddle to the next and then reverses from the...
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    Key challenges in cultural & family care (for class)

    Flightline replied to ghaleon128's topic in General Nursing

    If you work in AZ, you better learn to speak Spanish. You do that, and you will have crossed so many important bridges between family and culture that you will be their hero. What dissapoints me is...
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    Lung Sounds

    Flightline replied to EJSRN's topic in General Nursing

    I'm sorry, but those terms are only used in nursing school and thus best defined by--textbooks. If I asked anyone where I worked, MD's or RN's (excluding pulmonologists) what a vesicular breath sound...
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    BSN or entry-level MSN?

    Flightline replied to michellebell's topic in General Nursing

    Do whatever you want. The degree to be an RN is an associates degree and passing the NCLEX exam and whatever other requirements the state might have. There is no hinderence to having an MSN in being...
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    Status of the Industry

    Flightline posted a topic in General Nursing

    Have things changed in the industry? It seems I see a lot of posts on here where people are looking for a nursing job and can't find one. I also see a lot of posts where people appear to be coming...
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    Status of the Industry

    Flightline replied to Flightline's topic in General Nursing

    That's very interesting. I didn't realize there was an impact on census when the economy is turning down. And it's a bit frightening to hear CEOs say they want only the "best" nurses in such times....
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    Status of the Industry

    Flightline replied to Flightline's topic in General Nursing

    It will be interesting to see where the economy goes from here. In the eighties we started using credit cards big time, and that was one way out of a depression. In the nineties, we had the internet...
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    Nursing? May not have any other choice.

    Flightline replied to PopeJane3rd's topic in General Nursing

    I have to agree with the sentiment of some of the responses here. Nursing is not a profession where if all else fails you can just pick up a shovel and start digging a nursing-ditch. If someone...
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    Note Fundamentals of Nursing

    Flightline replied to Sharifah Natasha's topic in General Nursing

    Interesting. I really don't know where to begin here, but let me state the first fundamental: nursing is caring. Not emotional caring, but the act of caring. In medical treatment ancient or modern,...
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    New RN needs career advice...:(

    Flightline replied to Sieren's topic in General Nursing

    Agreed. Someone says they are "so depressed," they say their situation is intollerable, they say they daydream about crashing their car, I think that's a pretty serious cry for help. Of course, then...
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    Finally a Positive Note in my Career

    Flightline posted a topic in General Nursing

    Well, I got the job I was trying to get. I'm working in the ICU at a military hospital. I was in the AF for 10 years active and 6 Reserve, my wife retired from the AF, and now, I'm working at the...
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    New RN needs career advice...:(

    Flightline replied to Sieren's topic in General Nursing

    First off, if you can kill yourself, or if you think you could, then you can walk away from a job. If you can kill yourself, in fact, you can do anything you feel like doing. From the description you...
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    low heart rate

    Flightline replied to Ms.RN's topic in General Nursing

    32? You see heart rates at 32 daily without escape beats or junctional rhythms, and you see this almost daily? I must be living on another planet then. To be honest, the only people I've seen with HR...
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    Lvn?!?!?

    Flightline replied to k777's topic in General Nursing

    Something dawned on me while I was reading these posts. I have no opinion on it one way or another, but here it goes. No one denies an LPN or LVN is a nurse. So, why do some argue that nursing should...
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    Finally a Positive Note in my Career

    Flightline replied to Flightline's topic in General Nursing

    I didn't really find the job. The base has always been here, I just looked up the contractor on the internet and contacted them. They had an opening in the ICU. Tell me, did being an IDMT count when...
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    Giving Up?

    Flightline replied to Acey's topic in General Nursing

    What would you do
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    low heart rate

    Flightline replied to Ms.RN's topic in General Nursing

    Hey Virgo (me too, by the way--actually on the cusp, Sep 22), assuming everything reported is accurate, could a pt have a sinus rhythm that low? I suppose they could if they had too much dig, or beta...
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    Finally a Positive Note in my Career

    Flightline replied to Flightline's topic in General Nursing

    I did meet one when I was on Diego Garcia (a small British island in the Indian Ocean) during Desert Storm (1990). I had cramps from something, and she gave me a liter of NS and some loperamide. For...
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    Is this going to affect me?

    Flightline replied to chasingthedream's topic in General Nursing

    I'm sorry, but I vehemently disagree. In my opinion, she should not say a word about anything. No one else does. Most applications only have the SSAN as the one true detail. And the #1 worst thing she...
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    Is this going to affect me?

    Flightline replied to chasingthedream's topic in General Nursing

    Do not say a word and take a week's vacation. Let those doing the investigating do the work. Most background investigations are not even truly done. I'm surprised anyone even called your friends....
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    What makes Nursing school so hard?

    Flightline replied to PopeJane3rd's topic in General Students

    Oh! Very good. We actually don't have any now. The one in the photo died a little over a month ago. My wife is working on an oil portrait from that particular photo as a memorial. It was a terrible...
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    Finally a Positive Note in my Career

    Flightline replied to Flightline's topic in General Nursing

    If I had said you were all like that, I would certainly apologize for you being "very offended." If I had said "you" were like that, then I'd even understand why you are very offended. The fact is, I...