hey! that's where i graduated from!! :) i transfered in during the ob semester, but i had a good time! oh man, some of the instructors are so amazing, you're in for a treat! and the peds course...
GucciRN22 replied to leesespieces's topic in MICU, SICU
it's so frustrating when i'm in a pt's room and trying to hang gtts that were just ordered, do my assessment, etc with three family members in the room!! the only time i think that people should be...
omg, ditto!! i'm a faster-than-lightning reader, but to actually retain something, i have to: see it, hear it, read it, see it, use it, read it, write it, say it, use it, read it, say it, read it,...
there are so many patients on my unit who aren't icu patients! i'm sick of the call light going off all the time and other nurses are saying the same thing. if you happen to have an icu pt with...
hey there, i don't have the ability to send private messages yet, but i'll do my best to answer your questions. basically, what i did was look around at all the schools that i could possibly go to...
GucciRN22 replied to photomom's topic in MICU, SICU
i hate it when pts come to the unit with no central lines or only one iv from the er when there are the people there who can put those lines in. especially in cases where the patient is really...
It all depends on if you want to go to graduate school or not, I guess. I'm still considering getting my BSN and the only reason is that I'd like to go into the military; I have no notion of getting...
I know it sucks and it sounds like you are applying yourself to your school work (which I wasn't, since I didn't originally want to be a nurse in the first place--I was a music major for 3 years!),...
yep, the new critical care rns at my hospital have to do ecco. i don't think the older rns had to though, since they'd already been doing it for forever. i didn't mind it cause i got to work while i...
GucciRN22 replied to dorimar's topic in MICU, SICU
i'm not a new grad (been out about 14 months and then about 2 months in icu), but i still don't have that "nurse's brain" that holds all this information. it seems like on orientation, i'm writing...