NiteyNite

to the the op.... no it's not mythological. It's tough to get in. I was accepted to two schools this year but that means that 10-15 others were turned down. Not to mention the ones that didn't even get an interview, as well as that just being me; I'm...

Take a deep breath........ now exhale.... think on the bright side, at least they didn't fall on you.

At least 10 years, 4 months, 18 days, 15 hours, 27 minutes, and 1 second. Oh yeah..........hmmm.....treat your job like a relationship....

IMO the best ICU nurses know their limit and when to ask for help... But everybody's different.

LoveHearts, I let them know on Friday that I wouldn't be attending. I know it's been killing you for a while so I'm glad you got the nod. Congratulations!!

I'm not disagreeing with you. The request should have been honored. But if it's in writing somewhere that it's ok for a student to provide care and it's signed then that's binding. Oral requests are also legally binding; but how is it proved? My poin...

I'd pick that battle carefully. Most consents, especially at teaching hospitals also provide permission for students. If the signature is there then that action would go nowhere. Noone can prove speech.

Ours doesn't, it only has enough space to write one name. Your giving consent you your procedure and the judgement to select those to perform certain aspects of it. Our consents list the surgeons name and the associates of his/her choice covers the O...

He shouldn't lead them to believe he's doing the case if he's not. But if you read the consent form it will probably say. I give permission to "So and So" and/or the associates of his or her choice to perform on "patient's name" "said procedure."

All your boss knows is numbers because that's what she/he has to report to administration. So unless there is some research which shows this is the better way to go and can either reduce length of stay thus saving money or increase patient satisfacti...

On the question of certification yes. I am one of the PICC nurses at our facility and we are certified by an instructor from the nurse infusion society that was sent to us by BARD. We use the Power PICC and it's ok to use this PICC for a VAMP or CVP ...

I'm a night shift charge and I take a full assignment. In fact, we've got a lot of new nurses right now so I end up taking the sickest patients a lot of times. On days the charge does not take an assignment, helps out around the unit, responds to cod...

I wouldn't waste 10mL of blood every two hours..... Hook up a Vamp, it takes two minutes.

Get the CCRN and go for it. Just make sure you understand the CCRN material and apply it to your practice rather than just knowing it to pass a test. Do that and your golden. Have you taken the GRE? Don't forget you need to do that as well for most p...

Check out www.aana.com as well. That's the national body for CRNA's and there is a lot of good information there such as what CRNA's do, what their scope of practice is, how to be one, etc.... There's a drop down menu on the left I believe it says "b...

Looks like they describe this as a BS/MS program which means you will get your Bachelors and Masters at the same time. It doesn't look like you are accepted to the CRNA program along with that. It just means you'll already have your Masters in Scienc...

A lot of the things you do in critical care nursing a carried over to the OR during anesthesia, such as using the monitoring equipment, quickly recognizing rhythms, titrating drips, etc.... It takes experience to get proficient with doing these thing...

As long as you have good critical thinking skills then you can handle critical care. From my own experience when I transitioned from med/surg to ICU the biggest change was going from an environment where my main goal was time management to make sure ...

If the RNC is applicable to your field then it would be good to have to show that you are competent in the nursing you practice. However, there aren't many programs that consider NICU as critical care experience required for admission to school. This...

That wasn't very nice. I think I know what you mean by this and I experienced it a few times as a nursing student. You felt like you were pushed aside and treated as if you weren't part of a team. The reason is probably just because you didn't know a...

Ditto. There's really no easy road to get done with your classes that I'm aware of. I assume you mean family nurse practitioner. If you go to a program that awards you a MSN with focus in FNP and you then went to nurse anesthesia you probably wouldn'...

What was her history besides Pulmonary Fibrosis, why was she being CT'd, and what was her glucose? If she was diabetic she could have been in DKA (probably needed more fluid replacement) - Low BP, hyperkalemia, mental status changes?, respiratory dif...

If the incidence of catheter related infection is so high in your facility that you are turning to femoral sticks for blood draws then there needs to be some root cause analysis taking place to find and correct the exact cause of the catheter related...

LoveHearts, I believe they do have another round of interviews Jan. 5 & 6. At least that's what I was told in my interview. That's why I was surprised to hear from them yesterday. This was my first year applying, the 5 or 6 years thing referred t...

I went to Miami Ohio for my undergrad degree. No they don't have a CRNA program. They have no advanced practice programs. But they do have a stellar ADN and BSN; soon to be pure BSN program. Speaking of which, Future_RN, I need to e-mail that pharmac...