NickB

NickB

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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 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...

  5. 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

  6. 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 I just searched the bills referred to in the word document you attached and they both show that these bills were withdrawn.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...

  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...

  16. End of CCT Nurses in California?

    NickB replied to TraumaSurfer's topic in Flight, Surface Transport

    No way in hell will a paramedic be able to do a neonatal transport. I'm not sure of California, but florida requires a minimum of 2000 hours in the NICU as an RN before you can perform a NICU...

  17. Neonatal IV question

    NickB posted a topic in NICU, Neonatal

    I'm curious how everyone is covering their neonatal hand and arm IV's. In my SCN, some nurses like to cover them with diapers. I feel this looks tacky. I usually use one of our neonatal hats, not...

  18. Extremely Offensive ER experience

    NickB posted a topic in Emergency

    FYI: Long Rant. So the last 8 days of my life have probably been the worst 8 days of my life. It started 8 days ago while I was fishing with the abrupt onset of a horrible headache on the right side...

  19. Pain medications post partum

    NickB replied to CoppertopRNC's topic in Ob/Gyn

    Of course it depends on the Doc but generally: Vag with no tear or epis. = Motrin 400 q 4 prn or motrin 800 q 8. Vag with tear or epis. = Motrin 400 q 4 or motrin 800 q 8 and 1 percocet 5/325 q 4 prn...

  20. Extremely Offensive ER experience

    NickB replied to NickB's topic in Emergency

    This entire thread has turned into a personal attack. Some of these posts don't even make sense anymore. You all have gotten two entirely different trips to the ED mixed up in your need to try to...

  21. Extremely Offensive ER experience

    NickB replied to NickB's topic in Emergency

    It's obvious the ER nurses are offended here. Maybe because they are being called out for their normal behavior. Fine. I didn't decline narcotics, I tried to use the least strength med that would work...

  22. Extremely Offensive ER experience

    NickB replied to NickB's topic in Emergency

    I went to the hospital because I could no longer stand the level of pain I was experiencing. Think of how humiliating as a nurse it is to admit that and than think how much more humiliating as a...

  23. Extremely Offensive ER experience

    NickB replied to NickB's topic in Emergency

    i don't care about working in this hospital. i said i thought about working there in the past. i have been a business owner in the past and would want to know if this is how people (especially fellow...

  24. Extremely Offensive ER experience

    NickB replied to NickB's topic in Emergency

    I'm not complaining about freaking water. I'm not offended by the fact that maybe they didn't know what else to do. I'm offended that I was labeled as a drug seeker because I complained of pain. I'm...

  25. Extremely Offensive ER experience

    NickB replied to NickB's topic in Emergency

    Another thing I would like to say is that this hospital is in the network of hospitals that I work in. I have actually spent some time in their special care nursery and do not want to be labeled as...