EymieICURN

EymieICURN has 12 years experience and specializes in Adult ICU (All over), NICU, Education.

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1. What is your Nursing Kryptonite?

   EymieICURN replied to Lunah's topic in General Nursing

   BONES! bones that stick out of the skin, broken bones that crunch together when you touch them, joints out of alignments, I paid someone $5 to take an IO out of one of my patients. I am thinking of...

2. Colds and ATB

   EymieICURN replied to nursesaurus's topic in General Nursing

   Assuming ATB stands for antibiotics...antibiotics are used to kill bacteria not viruses for those you need

3. screaming doctors....how can we handle them?

   EymieICURN replied to KSU-SN's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

   Have the nurse and anyone that witnessed the incident fill out an incident report. Where I work the risk management department sends the report to the responsible party/department and they have to...

4. C's In Nursing School

   EymieICURN replied to redraider1977's topic in General Nursing

   My good friend used to say

5. Old nurse needs math help!

   EymieICURN replied to PureLifeRN's topic in General Nursing

   8 mcg X 130 lb X 1kg/2.2 lb X 250 ml/400mg X 1mg/1000mcg X 60min/1hr ______ kg/min =17.7

6. Dilation Issues Pts w/ Prior Cryo

   EymieICURN replied to honeymist's topic in Ob/Gyn

   I had this problem...A nurse actually manually stretched my cervix...that was more painful that anything else during labor. I went from being 1 cm for over 12 hours to 3 cms after she "streched" my...

7. Diurese at night?

   EymieICURN replied to Vtachy1's topic in General Nursing

   IN the heart failure patient; Nocturia develops as edema fluid from dependent tissue is reabsorbed while the patient is supine. A healthy person may have nocturia if the lower extremity valves are...

8. Diurese at night?

   EymieICURN replied to Vtachy1's topic in General Nursing

   In the Heart Failure

9. TPN HELP!!! (please)

   EymieICURN replied to peachpower's topic in General Nursing

   In my experience the Filter size does matter! So, it depends what your hospital buys. I have worked in hopitals where we run lipids and TPN throught the same filters and some that you have to run the...

10. Words you never dreamed you would say as a nurse...

    EymieICURN replied to ShayRN's topic in General Nursing

    I had a confused patient that spend half the night saying " Oh Lord, Lordy, Lord". I had a male co-worker call him on the intercom and say "MR...., this is the Lord, please get some sleep" and he did!...

11. s/s of sepsis?

    EymieICURN replied to Ms.RN's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    Even though the BP looked "fine" the fact that the HR was so elevated means that the heart is working really hard to keep the BP at that level. Once the heart poops out that BP will drop fast. Like...

12. Thinking MSN... Barry? FAU?

    EymieICURN replied to NurseFL's topic in Florida Nursing

    I worked as a NUrsing Instructor for 3 years and now I am the Critical Care Educator at a hospital in Tampa. I LOVE IT! I always loved education, so this was the right job for me. I did my MSN in a...

13. Thinking MSN... Barry? FAU?

    EymieICURN replied to NurseFL's topic in Florida Nursing

    I am a graduate of FAU...I did my BSN and MSN (in nursing Education) with them. I love the school and their philosophy (Caring). Since I did my BSN with them and had a good GPA I did not have to take...

14. certifications for new grads

    EymieICURN replied to kitty72's topic in General Nursing

    Thanks for the correction GOMER...the CEN does not required 2 years experience but two yeas of experience is recommended.

15. certifications for new grads

    EymieICURN replied to kitty72's topic in General Nursing

    You can do an ECG course, highly recommended before you take ACLS you can take PALS and NRP You can sign up for a critical care course (those can be a bit expensive) or and ED course. Certifications...