NickB

NickB has 4 years experience and specializes in NICU Transport/NICU.

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1. PAs Do Not Like Us

   NickB replied to Dodongo's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

   Now that I do not disagree with. I feel like there should be more of a minimum requirement for NP school due to the limited hours in our clinical rotation. I do like that I did all of my 600 clinical...

2. PAs Do Not Like Us

   NickB replied to Dodongo's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

   I'll bet that there are hardly any PA's that were previously a flight nurse. And I use that example because that role is the most autonomous in the nurse profession. PAs have a miniscule amount of...

3. PAs Do Not Like Us

   NickB replied to Dodongo's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

   Sure thing. Just as soon as a PA student spends 6 years as a flight nurse before beginning school like I did. Let's also not forget the small detail that PAs spend two years learning about all...

4. NP role in a code

   NickB replied to NickB's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

   Not questioning running a code. I'm questioning stopping a

5. NP role in a code

   NickB replied to NickB's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

   Thank you for your post. I just searched the bills referred to in the word document you attached and they both show that these bills were withdrawn. Where did you gather this information from? Do...

6. NP role in a code

   NickB posted a topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

   I am graduating in three weeks from an AC-PNP program and curiosity has gotten the best of me. I plan to work in a Peds ED and I'm curious if anyone can provide me with some info. I am curious if...

7. Why can't nurses intubate?

   NickB replied to natnat122's topic in Emergency

   Here, this is the quote that my original response was for. I think you and I are making the same argument. "Completely true, but in some instances you can't maintain an airway without the...

8. Why can't nurses intubate?

   NickB replied to natnat122's topic in Emergency

   I think you misunderstood my first posts. I was responding to someone at the beginning of the thread questioning why they didn't have a middle ground available, regarding some nurses being able to...

9. Why can't nurses intubate?

   NickB replied to natnat122's topic in Emergency

   That's funny that you make the points you do. My RRT and I arrived to an outlying facility last Friday and walked in on an extreme Pierre Robin term baby who had an LMA inserted. This was after two...

10. Why can't nurses intubate?

    NickB replied to natnat122's topic in Emergency

    You have a middle ground. It's called an

11. picc teams

    NickB replied to picc.is.an.art's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    80 bed nicu. We have a picc team consisting of day and night nurses. Some staff and some transport. We place all lines and manage all

12. Interesting cases anyone?

    NickB replied to Humbled_Nurse's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    I think you'll be hard pressed to find any NICU nurse who doesn't find that pt

13. Trouble understanding PPHN...

    NickB replied to LucyRn4's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    Funny. I was just having this conversation with a new grad in our unit yesterday. I used to old term persistent fetal circulation to help her understand it. That seemed to help a lot. PPHN is most...

14. Interesting cases anyone?

    NickB replied to Humbled_Nurse's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    Stand by for just one second. I am a NICU nurse and a parent and I find this post not only very interesting but also very helpful. We are fully aware that they are babies as we work with them at...

15. My first ever patient passed away..

    NickB replied to imaginations's topic in PICU, Pediatric

    There is absolutely nothing wrong with how you felt. I often go home for a long stretch and will call the unit to check on a critical patient that I was taking care of. I think the key is that you...