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  1. CRNA debt load, plus mortgage, kids, single income

    simvee posted a topic in Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist

    I've been reading many of the threads here re: tuition debt load, but I still feel compelled to ask - is anyone else in this situation? I'm speculating about CRNA school. I'm an ICU nurse with four...

  2. Don't think I can keep writing these papers!

    simvee posted a topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    Giving serious thought to switching to a PA program. They seriously cannot be as bad as this, can they? I feel being part of a medical program they just can't be as bad as a graduate level nursing...

  3. Don't think I can keep writing these papers!

    simvee replied to simvee's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    That's hardly fair. Whatever earlier disputes you guys have had here, I wasn't part of that. I just did a ten page concept analysis of the concept (apparently it's just a nursing concept) of...

  4. FNP Graduate from Chamberlain College of Nursing Dec 2015

    simvee replied to chamberlainFNP2015's topic in Chamberlain College

    Thanks for all the helpful info, this is great. My question is do you foresee being able to work in an inpatient or hospital clinic setting? I was told our heart failure clinic (which is in our...

  5. Chamberlain FNP program

    simvee replied to Lonlai84's topic in Chamberlain College

    I too am curious about the Chicagoland area. Can we just use any family doctor? They said we could use MD or NP centers. My family doc had a NP student with him once, so I'm thinking of asking

  6. Our hospital just gutted educational benefits

    simvee posted a topic in Nursing Career

    I'm writing here seeking advice. I work for a large teaching Magnet facility which I really love. It used to (I'm sure still claims to) strongly encourage nursing education. I am an ADN RN who is in...

  7. Our hospital just gutted educational benefits

    simvee replied to simvee's topic in Nursing Career

    I think I'm going to ride it out, evaluate other BSN programs, and evaluate other ways of paying. Even if I take out a small Stafford loan it wouldn't bankrupt me I guess. Of course taking out a loan...

  8. 0.9 is not full time?!

    simvee posted a topic in General Nursing

    Our hospital just quietly transitioned to a new policy, wherein 0.9 FTE nurses (3 12 hour shifts) are not considered full-time. They reassure us that this policy only affects new nurses, and old...

  9. Can I bolus this patient? A legal / practice question about sedatives and narcotics

    simvee posted a topic in MICU, SICU

    Hi, I'm a new RN in a trauma ICU. We use a LOT of pain drips and sedative drips. Typical patient has Versed and fentanyl on pumps with orders to titrate as needed to maintain sedation (MAAS score of...

  10. Does it have to be a fingerstick? (accucheck question)

    simvee posted a topic in Critical Care

    I'm pretty sure when I was inserviced by the Roche Accuchek folks about using their machine, they said that one of the benefits was that I could use blood from any source, not just capillary (a...

  11. Craniectomy / SDH questions

    simvee posted a topic in Neuro Intensive Care, ICU

    Hi! I'm new to a neuro ICU. Had a head trauma patient with a subdural and a shift. Low GCS at first, but they did a massive craniectomy (entire parietal/temporal bone flap). By the time I got the...

  12. Do you keep in shape just to keep up at work?

    simvee posted a topic in Men in Nursing

    Do you guys find you have to work out just to stay fit enough to work? I'm finding work so much easier now that I've lost 25 pounds (due to other reasons - found out I had super high cholesterol). The...

  13. Joined AACN, was it worth it?

    simvee posted a topic in MICU, SICU

    Soon after I graduated I joined the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses, because I thought it might help me with my new job in the ICU. And I was kind of idealistically thinking that joining...

  14. 25 pushups

    simvee replied to nurse2033's topic in Men in Nursing

    Yeah, I jog the stairs at work sometimes if I'm bored or need a pick-me-up. Sometimes with push-ups at the top and bottom

  15. Student nurse extern/internship in chicagoland/quad cities?

    simvee replied to Freakoutgirl16's topic in Illinois Nursing

    Christ still takes 50 externs a summer as far as I

  16. scrubs in chicago

    simvee replied to cookielady,rn's topic in Illinois Nursing

    Working Class is expensive IMHO. Does anyone have any experience with Chicago Scrubs Outlet? http://www.chicagoscrubsoutlet.com/ Saw their good reviews on Yelp. Speaking of which, here's a Yelp search...

  17. Illinois Masonic RN residency

    simvee replied to BelleP's topic in Illinois Nursing

    One of Masonic's sister Advocate hospitals has serial residency programs, like two a year. It's a new thing but I think Masonic's doing the same

  18. checking NG tube placement

    simvee replied to Lorus's topic in MICU, SICU

    We insufflate just to have an idea, and then x-ray. Incidentally I have heard a wet gurgle on auscultation, only to have it in the bronchus apparently! So insufflation really isn't totally accurate,...

  19. Craniectomy / SDH questions

    simvee replied to simvee's topic in Neuro Intensive Care, ICU

    For some reason we use D5 .45%. Also I think they reserve mannitol for actual cases of swelling and not for prophylaxis anymore? But I'm not sure. That's a good point. I'll remember to say

  20. Central Line Insertion

    simvee replied to haji's topic in MICU, SICU

    I've assisted at central line insertion a bunch of times, even before I was an RN (I was an ICU tech), and that's pretty sufficient. As long as you are masked and gowned and protect the sterile field...

  21. Turning Patients

    simvee replied to Sg0223RN's topic in MICU, SICU

    Short answer: no. Don't turn or lift people without adequate help. You can't be expected to do things that you can't physically do safely. No one in management or on the medical staff (the other...

  22. Member Recommended Reading for Neurosurgical/Neurological Nursing

    simvee replied to gwenith's topic in Neuro Intensive Care, ICU

    Thanks! I was just going to ask about

  23. How do you handle incompetent residents?

    simvee posted a topic in MICU, SICU

    I work in a teaching hospital with several residency programs. Lately we've become a "closed unit", using intensivists, but we "borrowed" the intensivists from the pool of already overworked trauma...

  24. How do you handle incompetent residents?

    simvee replied to simvee's topic in MICU, SICU

    You guys are right, follow the chain of command. It's kind of annoying to do this for little issues, though. Oh well. Tri-RN, like I said, I'd rather them say they have no clue and ask me what to do...

  25. Can I bolus this patient? A legal / practice question about sedatives and narcotics

    simvee replied to simvee's topic in MICU, SICU

    peep and zofran - thanks for understanding my plight. Like I said, there is no way to document these boluses. I already posted the only workaround I could see (volume boluses) which is ridiculous but...