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

    hopefullICUnurse77 posted a topic in Flight, Surface Transport

    What states currently have RN's working

  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......

  3. 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...

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

    hopefullICUnurse77 posted a topic in MICU, SICU

    Here is my situation. The city where I live has two main hospital systems. They are both on hiring freezes due to low census / the economy. I am recently hired into a MICU as a GN, in another city...

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

    hopefullICUnurse77 replied to hopefullICUnurse77's topic in MICU, SICU

    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...

  6. 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...

  7. 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....

  8. Assertiveness being seen as aggressive

    hopefullICUnurse77 replied to newrn05's topic in Medical-Surgical

    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...

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

    hopefullICUnurse77 replied to duzapolska's topic in New York Nursing

    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...

  10. CCRN Test

    hopefullICUnurse77 replied to luvmylab's topic in MICU, SICU

    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

  11. 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,...

  12. 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

  13. CCRN Test

    hopefullICUnurse77 replied to luvmylab's topic in MICU, SICU

    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

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

    hopefullICUnurse77 replied to hopefullICUnurse77's topic in Flight, Surface Transport

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

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

    hopefullICUnurse77 replied to hopefullICUnurse77's topic in Flight, Surface Transport

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

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

    hopefullICUnurse77 replied to LV2BME's topic in Flight, Surface Transport

    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...

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

    hopefullICUnurse77 replied to hopefullICUnurse77's topic in MICU, SICU

    I do realize that I will still be a beginner after a year of experience. The next step of my big plan is to get into a level 1 or 2 trauma center ICU. I'm also working on getting my EMT-I cert right...

  18. CCRN Test

    hopefullICUnurse77 replied to luvmylab's topic in MICU, SICU

    Do you think the PAss CCRN cd's will be beneficial to a new grad RN who is going to orient to the

  19. Shift change intubation

    hopefullICUnurse77 replied to funeek8RN's topic in MICU, SICU

    have you assisted with lots of intubations before? If not, then you missed an opportunity, but if so, you just took one for the team to ensure a speedy shift change. I say no harm

  20. ICU Nurse Manager: Question please

    hopefullICUnurse77 posted a topic in Licensure: Criminal History

    Hi there, I am graduating from school in may. In my area, the hospitals are quite saturated with quite a few nursing schools in my area. Of course everyone wants to work in the ICU. I have a criminal...

  21. Is this a bad sign??

    hopefullICUnurse77 replied to Roxy0628's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    my school only required "intro to microbiology" perphaps you can take a step back and take the intro class? If you really think that a

  22. Question to nursing managers re: criminal history

    hopefullICUnurse77 posted a topic in General Nursing

    Kind of desperately seeking some input. please check this thread in the ICU forum

  23. Need advice please help

    hopefullICUnurse77 replied to MICUVT's topic in Licensure: Criminal History

    the board can see sealed records. this will only hide your history from public