NIGHTWOLF87

hello... the best advice i can offer if you want to be a nicu nurse when you graduate, is to know your basics pretty well; such as vs for newborns, how to do a head to toe assessment, etc. the main disease processes that you need to know like the b...

so you will be starting nursing school in july? that means you will graduate in approx 2 years or a little less? by then, i doubt that everyone will remember who you were. and who knows, perhaps the staff will be totally different by then, so rela...

1. area of nursing: nicu 2. orientation: was 12 weeks, but has been recently changed to 6 months: 3 months in level ii and 3 months in level iii. 3. nurse/pt. ratio: 1:1-2 in level iii, 1:3-4 in level ii.

"get names of the unit managers for your hospitals nicus and when you get close to graduating, ask to meet with them. tell them your plans and desires to work in their nicu." so you recommend i call the unit director later on once i finish school. ho...

your best chances of being hired in a nicu a year from now, depend on if their are openings in the nicus at the hospitals you attend to apply at and if they welcome new grads to their nicus. i know here in our nicu we welcome new grads, as we just h...

remember seeing that on an older episode of "er".

first of all, congrats on becoming a new nicu nurse! welcome to the club secondly, your orientation sounds super short. in our nicu, they recently expanded the orientation process to 6 months! 3 months orientation in level ii and 3 months in leve...

hey korleone... i've been in the nicu for over 3 and 1/2 years, and i absolutely love what i do here. there is soooo much more to do than just feed the babies and put them to sleep. first of all, if you are in the nicu, you are not dealing with no...

first, let me say congrats for being a new gn! secondly, i am sorry that you are having a less than stellar orientation on your unit. when i first graduated, my first job was at the hospital that i did my last semester of clincials at. i worked on...

sorry to hear that you were failed during your peds rotation. fortunately, my experience during the ob rotation was a positive one. i have a great clinical intructor who actually tried to get me and the other male nursing students more involved, be...

the most comfortable (and expensive) shoes that i wear for work are z-coils. i know some other guys here at the hospital that wear them as well. you can check out their different styles at www.zcoil.com. i would highly recommended them. i have ha...

i have always thought that you 'do what you love, and love what you do' type of philosophy. if nursing is what you truly have your heart set on, then by all means, go for it! there is more to life than money. and if you continue on with your nursi...

i'd be glad to help as well.

we flush our peripheral line heplocks with each of our touch times (q 3-4hrs, usually), and we use pre-mixed flushes of 1/2ns with heparin 1:1. as far as as the med line on a uvc, again, we use pre-mixed heparin flushes and run it at 0.2ml/hr conti...

hello... these are the pre-reqs and nursing courses for the nursing program from the university that i graduated from for 2008-09 academic year: http://nursing.utep.edu/nursing/degree_plans/00_bsn_degree_plan_2008-09.pdf as far as getting your asn or...

i didn't find nursing school to be all that difficult, just intense. you have so much information thrown at you all at once. lots of reading, assignments, group projects, individual projects, papers to write (in the dreaded apa format), tests, clin...

true, mexico does have it's problems. but it is a third world country. here on the u.s.a. side, we do not have any problems spilling over here. we have the army base of ft. bliss, biggs field, holoman air force base and white sands missile range ne...

working here in the nicu, we are the one's who attend every c-section. it is very common for the obs to schedule a c/s out of convenience. you want to know when the busiest time for scheduled c/s? try the thurs or fri before a major holiday weeken...

the op sounds exactly how my ob rotation went many moons ago... overall i have to admit that i really didn't like it that much. i was able to take part in a c-section and see a vag delivery. didn't really like postpartum that much. but i made it t...

and, yes, all the local hospitals here are looking for nurses.

where did that come from? i have lived here in el paso, texas for going on 35+ years and have never once feared for my life. it is dangerous if you travel over the border, but to insinuate that because you live in a border area, you are automatical...

a & p is the foundation that you will build upon when you get into more advanced classes, such as pathophysiology. without a good understanding of how a well body functions, you will, in my opinion, be lost when trying to understand how a diseas...

like it was said in some of the earlier posts, there are "strong" or "weak" nurses on every shift and every floor. i have worked nights for going on 4 years now, and in our unit (nicu), there seems to be more conflicts between nurses, both professio...

don't get discouraged! as you are a new nurse, i would be more concerned that if you didn't ask questions, and thought that you knew it all already. no one knows everything, especially starting out in nursing. i have been a nurse for over 6 years,...

it all depends on what area of the country you are working in if there is a "nursing shortage" right now. here at the hospital that i work at, we are still hiring rns (nicu) and our sister hospital is even more desperate for nurses; so much that nur...