hopefullICUnurse77

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1. Career Path Advice: ICU or ER to flight nursing

   hopefullICUnurse77 replied to hopefullICUnurse77's topic in General Nursing

   Thank you both for your candid replies. To futher clarify: I am in the US. I have done quite a bit of reading online and have seen the "minimum" requirements to fly as a nurse. I am by no means simply running down the list of minimums to get where...

2. Career Path Advice: ICU or ER to flight nursing

   hopefullICUnurse77 posted a topic in General Nursing

   My goal is to be a flight nurse. Maybe this is a thread for flightweb, hopefully you all wont mind giving me advice. I consider the helicopter to be an extension of the ER. I know it does CCT also... Ok. So I haven't started my new job in the MICU. (...

3. Plans of a new ICU nurse. ICU Manager please help!!

   hopefullICUnurse77 replied to hopefullICUnurse77's topic in MICU

   My income will finally be a second income in our family. There is no possibility of moving there for the year as that will diminish the already small wage they will be paying me there. My mother lives in the city where my job is, so I can always cr...

4. Frustrated New Grad

   hopefullICUnurse77 replied to newPsychNP's topic in Emergency

   i'm pretty sure there are quite a few places. i did mine at http://trainingdivision.com It costs about $1000 with the book and then you also have to pay for a hotel room for about 9-10 days when you come to the emergency training center to do your s...

5. Frustrated New Grad

   hopefullICUnurse77 replied to newPsychNP's topic in Emergency

   Pick up your EMT-B cert (you can do it online in a month), and start volunteering for a 911 EMS system, then start applying for your ER positions with some EMERGENCY experience. Or go to the ICU. I'm sure they LOVE RNs who are comfortable running s...

6. Assertiveness being seen as aggressive

   hopefullICUnurse77 replied to newrn05's topic in Med-Surg

   You could start out statements with the disclaimer, "I have something important to tell you and people always mistake my tone of voice as being aggressive or condescending, please do not take it in this manner...[fill in the rest]"

7. How to get into a program, help I'm 33 and rejected twice...

   hopefullICUnurse77 replied to duzapolska's topic in New York

   have you thought about working as a CNA, or an EMT-Basic? 1-3 months to get your EMT-B and you could work in an ER, or as a CNA (not sure what the rules are for CNA's in your area meaning licensed/unlicensed) on any hospital floor. Maybe the nursing...

8. CCRN Test

   hopefullICUnurse77 replied to luvmylab's topic in MICU

   greatnurses.com they are selling cds, dvds and vhs... they sent me the vhs ... when i ordered the cds. lame! maybe they will make it hassle free to get the product i ordered :)

9. 18 fr salem sump up the nose?!

   hopefullICUnurse77 replied to hopefullICUnurse77's topic in General Nursing

   that's what i was thinking! it was HUGE compared to his nare... which is what prompted me to question the intervention.

10. 18 fr salem sump up the nose?!

    hopefullICUnurse77 posted a topic in General Nursing

    I was recently in the back of an ambulance and the medic asked me to prepare a tube so that we could remove the gastric contents of a man who had already been vomiting. He was found unresponsive, with a camelbak full of liquor and a pocket full of s...

11. CCRN Test

    hopefullICUnurse77 replied to luvmylab's topic in MICU

    Congratulations! Once you earn the CCRN title, do you ever have to retest for it, or do you just have to keep up with your CEUs ?

12. What states have a prehospital RN scope of practice??

    hopefullICUnurse77 replied to hopefullICUnurse77's topic in Flight

    I'm pretty sure that Pennsylvania has a "pre-hospital RN" cert. I was wondering if any other states have some thing like this.

13. What states have a prehospital RN scope of practice??

    hopefullICUnurse77 replied to hopefullICUnurse77's topic in Flight

    I am taking classes for my intermediate right now. Eventually I will go for the red patch. thanks for catching on!

14. What states have a prehospital RN scope of practice??

    hopefullICUnurse77 posted a topic in Flight

    What states currently have RN's working ambulances?

15. Nursing school and emt-b at the same time

    hopefullICUnurse77 replied to LV2BME's topic in Flight

    i did my emt-b during the 3rd semester of an associate degree program. It wasn't that hard. The hard part was coordinating clinicals. I had to take a 2 week period over christmas and new years eve to complete my clinicals in a way that did not con...