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  1. Parents won't support my decision

    edogs334 replied to vn1234's topic in Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist

    EXACTLY!! So many people over the last few years have said to me "well, why not just become a doctor?" As if it's such an easy thing to do to just take the pre-med courses, go to medical school, go...

  2. OK we get it STUD, you're straight

    edogs334 replied to bigrigcowboy's topic in Male Nursing Students

    When I was a nursing student (not too long ago) there were definitely male classmates who did and said stuff to prove their "masculinity" and made comments like "not that I would be into that" or "not...

  3. Any ICUs or critical care settings where the standard ratio is 1:1?

    edogs334 replied to edogs334's topic in MICU, SICU

    The only situation in which we officially have 2 nurses taking care of one patient is when a preceptor and their orientee take care of a sick patient who is 1:1. I did this a few times during my...

  4. NP

    edogs334 replied to nurse678's topic in MICU, SICU

    I'm not a moderator, but you'd be better served if you put this question in the Nurse Practitioners forum- under the Advanced Practice Nursing Specialty group of forums. There are several people...

  5. Patients who are too unstable to turn

    edogs334 replied to TemperStripe's topic in MICU, SICU

    There was a patient I had when I was still on orientation (or was it when I was off orientation? I forget - been off for a few months now) that would brady down to the 30's if you turned, suctioned or...

  6. College Student Looking for Career Advice...(RN vs EMT-P)

    edogs334 replied to purdue1014's topic in General Nursing

    In terms of accelerated programs, don't do anything less than 14 months- that's just downright crazy (14-16 months is already a crazy pace). My school had accelerated 14- and 16-month cohorts in...

  7. What is your Kryptonite?

    edogs334 replied to MassED's topic in Emergency

    Yeah, something neurosurgical- like a patient with an IVC drain or a Camino Bolt- well, especially an IVC drain. No matter how often other nurses and my manager have explained how an IVC drain works,...

  8. College Student Looking for Career Advice...(RN vs EMT-P)

    edogs334 replied to purdue1014's topic in General Nursing

    One more piece of advice- go with what will make you happy in the long run, not with what other people (parents, professors, society, friends, etc) think is acceptable for you to do. You have to...

  9. College Student Looking for Career Advice...(RN vs EMT-P)

    edogs334 replied to purdue1014's topic in General Nursing

    I'd say you can do both- ie- you can go to paramedic school followed by nursing school, or vice versa. If your college or university has a BSN program, consider switching majors instead of finishing...

  10. Is working in the ICU the ultimate nursing job? I need to know!

    edogs334 replied to Spoiled1's topic in MICU, SICU

    I think areas like ER and critical care get hyped up in nursing school because people think of them as glamorous, high-profile action areas that present a unique challenge. And there's some truth to...

  11. medsurg or ER experience

    edogs334 replied to Yuppers21's topic in MICU, SICU

    I would go to the ER only if their new grad program has a lot of structure and support- ie- a long (at least 4 months) orientation period, formal classes (the ER new grads took the critical care...

  12. "We self schedule on this floor..."

    edogs334 replied to Work in Progress's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Maybe the crappy scheduling system is one of the reasons why the unit has lost so many nurses. You can only ride nurses for so long before they take care of themselves and head for better work...

  13. Any other EMS professionals turned nurses having issues!

    edogs334 replied to AnnieOaklyRN's topic in General Nursing

    Exactly! One of the supervising anesthesiologists at my hospital conveyed a similar message to us during our airway lecture in orientation- that he would rather anesthesia be stat-paged preemptively...

  14. Any other EMS professionals turned nurses having issues!

    edogs334 replied to AnnieOaklyRN's topic in General Nursing

    Exactly! One of supervising anesthesiologists at my hospital conveyed a similar message to us during out airway lecture in orientation- that he would rather anesthesia be stat-paged preemptively and...

  15. Any other EMS professionals turned nurses having issues!

    edogs334 replied to AnnieOaklyRN's topic in General Nursing

    Which is why I would love to be a nurse in an EMS system- I'm also one of those people that got infected with the EMS bug and was never "cured." Being a nurse in a hospital (even in an ICU) just...

  16. Help! New nurse and arterial lines!

    edogs334 replied to new nurse stl's topic in Critical Care

    I'm also a new graduate and still have to think about which way is which. The way I've found it to follow the line in either direction from the the stopcock on the transducer- one direction will go...

  17. ICU visiting hours.. What is reasonable?

    edogs334 replied to TigerGalLE's topic in MICU, SICU

    The unit I work on has open visitation, except from 7am-9am and 7pm-9pm. We only allow 2 visitors per patient and don't allow family members to sleep in the patient's room. If visitors get unruly,...

  18. Is this fair to ask of a new RN?

    edogs334 replied to squatmunkie_RN's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Working on an ICU stepdown floor carrying 6-7 patients is NOT safe and 5 weeks of orientation is bare-bones minimum in my book. I DON'T CARE what other people say about "oh, well it's like that at my...

  19. New grad doesn't want to work on the floor...

    edogs334 replied to regrebs's topic in General Nursing

    Saying what you said about what type of nursing position you desire after graduation(on one level) kind of like saying "I want to join the police department, but I don't want to put in my time working...

  20. paramedic nursing

    edogs334 replied to mcgill01's topic in Flight, Surface Transport

    And by cross-training I mean nurses going to paramedic school post nursing school graduation (or most of it) at least the areas that nurses didn't cover in nursing school or their critical care...

  21. paramedic nursing

    edogs334 replied to mcgill01's topic in Flight, Surface Transport

    Yes, I agree that many prehospital providers don't have the broad knowledge of the diagnostic and treatment process that nurses have, but the majority of paramedics are required to do rotations not...

  22. paramedic nursing

    edogs334 replied to mcgill01's topic in Flight, Surface Transport

    It would be cool if nurses could practice as nurses (with additional specialized training and education) on ambulances in the U.S.- as their full-time job and not just an avocation in addition to...

  23. Bonus for Flight Nurses in Maryland/DC?

    edogs334 replied to rmc2's topic in Flight, Surface Transport

    In MD, the State Police does most of the scene calls, while UMMC Express Care (they DO have a flight transport division) and Johns Hopkins Lifeline (the two flight services that I know of in MD) do...

  24. Part time work- what kind?

    edogs334 posted a topic in General Nursing

    I did a search on the above subject which didn't produce any relevant information. I was wondering what kind of part-time work (if any) RN's on this board do (especially RNs who work 36 hours/week on...

  25. Part time work- what kind?

    edogs334 replied to edogs334's topic in General Nursing

    I want to find a part-time/per-diem position primarily because I could use the extra money. I have a lot of student loan debt (not an unmanageable amount, but still significant) and would like to make...