Most likely surgical blood loss and hemodulation. Also, lots of patients develop anemia during a hospital stay. One thing to remember with anemia is that there are only three general causes: loss (or...
I had no trouble getting in to the icu straight out of school. They only had two requirements when hiring new grads. You had to have cna/pca/tech experience and have some type of critical care...
I think it depends on how relevant your preceptorship was to the position you're applying for. If you want an ICU job and thats where your preceptorship was, then definitely put it first. That was...
I just got hired into the ICU at St. Francis in Milwaukee. While I was going through the interview process, I was told that they would have more spots opening up (I think some are already listed). I...
Hi Kimberly, In your phone interview, stress the completion of your pre-reqs. They do consider this a factor in your candidacy. Also, whoever told you that UW-O doesn't help with financial aid...
A little primer for the phone interview.... Its focused on what you know about the program to see if you know what you are getting yourself into. They'll ask if you have the financial part squared...
This link describes the vector thing way better. I'm a pretty bad teacher :) http://www.cvphysiology.com/Arrhythmias/A015.htm This is really good also. It explains pretty much everything else....
It has to do with the orientation of V1-V4 to the left side of the heart. Look at the pattern of the QRS complexes, V1-V3 are predominantly downward deflections because the sum of the depolarization...