PostOpPrincess

PostOpPrincess BSN, RN

M/S, MICU, CVICU, SICU, ER, Trauma, NICU

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  1. Education vs Experience

    PostOpPrincess replied to Airforce1's topic in General Nursing

    You are showing our inexperience. If you ever cathed anyone, when the muscle tenses up, it is almost impossible to pass a tube when the bladder is full. There was nothing anatomically wrong with him....

  2. "discovered" an IUFD the other day :(

    PostOpPrincess replied to HappyNurse2005's topic in Ob/Gyn

    I'm so sorry. This is a very, very sad thing. This is when I always start questioning the meaning of life... I wonder why things are the way they are.... I hope you can find a way to reconcile this...

  3. Please help I have an interview this wensday!

    PostOpPrincess replied to Blackheartednurse's topic in General Nursing

    Basic algebra and

  4. Education vs Experience

    PostOpPrincess replied to Airforce1's topic in General Nursing

    You're very sensitive and I think it has to do with many people not giving you the credit you have worked for. I do not dismiss people and their education. I have two degrees--one in business...and...

  5. Education vs Experience

    PostOpPrincess replied to Airforce1's topic in General Nursing

    No one is dismissive of education. The more the education, the better...but education without experience is just as bad. All theory..no intuitive guidance from lack of tactile history........

  6. Education vs Experience

    PostOpPrincess replied to Airforce1's topic in General Nursing

    I'll take A for $100.00,

  7. Another male idiot, asking stupid questions.....

    PostOpPrincess replied to wje9516767's topic in General Nursing

    I got the jokes; I thought it was funny. If you really want to be a nurse, go for

  8. Any CRNAs out there with only NICU before school?

    PostOpPrincess replied to MHP483's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    I know of one nurse who did well. Her only problem was the learning curve for all of the adult co-morbids, lots of drugs. Well...let's just say she had to study double the others. But she is a CRNA...

  9. Education vs Experience

    PostOpPrincess replied to Airforce1's topic in General Nursing

    I can tell you this--my hospital system doesn't hire direct entries. And if they did, it would be an at research/data gathering level--no direct care. Don't know about the docs--but that would be...

  10. Education vs Experience

    PostOpPrincess replied to Airforce1's topic in General Nursing

    He was a lap appy. Why? Because 10 people tried to put in a foley. TEN. Yes, if you are 19--that is YOUR BIGGEST FEAR. No one went to the basic. I told him to chill out...gave Ativan IV....he started...

  11. Education vs Experience

    PostOpPrincess replied to Airforce1's topic in General Nursing

    acute care is where many of these nps try to end up. we are in a committee meeting now and reviewing the credentialing of these new arnps and gathering evidence on their pros and cons for our...

  12. Education vs Experience

    PostOpPrincess replied to Airforce1's topic in General Nursing

    An "aha" moment? When an ARNP was ready to place a patient under a care of a urologist and invasive therapy when all the patient needed was a "chill out" you will be fine--because he couldn't pee....

  13. Education vs Experience

    PostOpPrincess replied to Airforce1's topic in General Nursing

    My experiences are anecdotal. What else can they be? I have 4 (4 CVICU nurses who work for two cardiothoracic groups.)that were immediately comfortable, running codes, intubating putting in lines,...

  14. Education vs Experience

    PostOpPrincess replied to Airforce1's topic in General Nursing

    I keep restating this and I feel that I am misunderstood. There is nothing wrong with going further with the education. I just know (and I have to point this out because you are working on theory,...

  15. Education vs Experience

    PostOpPrincess replied to Airforce1's topic in General Nursing

    You would be laughed out of my unit. Don't embarrass yourself. A CRNA had to eat **** the other day because he dealt with something he had never seen before. His ego is so big that he was chastised...

  16. Sick of core measures

    PostOpPrincess replied to WindyhillBSN's topic in General Nursing

    We have core measures. We are magnet. We do it with good support and good auditing. No write ups. That's so silly. We are not for profit. It's not so bad as long as it is not punitive, when it...

  17. Had first experience of withdrawing pt care, emotionally drained, need some advice!

    PostOpPrincess replied to shoegalRN's topic in General Nursing

    You will get used to

  18. Lost my 1st patient

    PostOpPrincess replied to E.R. Rookie's topic in General Nursing

    This.

  19. ADN and BSN

    PostOpPrincess replied to Tif-fantastic's topic in General Nursing

    No; experienced only at this time. Willing to pay for travelers versus training new grads. It's cheaper in the long

  20. What degree is best for a new nursing student? CNL, BSN or RN?

    PostOpPrincess replied to jdb156's topic in General Nursing

    A "CNL" leader who is also a newbie nurse... seems like such a

  21. Magnet Status

    PostOpPrincess replied to dillarduniversity's topic in General Nursing

    Go for your RN ASAP. We phased out the LPNs in our hospital. They all had to go get their RNs within a set time, or risk losing their

  22. Hospital Scrubs

    PostOpPrincess replied to SallyFM's topic in PACU

    OR colors. We need to be able to tell the difference between surgical peeps and outside

  23. Your Policy for S/C Narcotic Discard?

    PostOpPrincess replied to All4Seasons's topic in PACU

    We have special syringes we use so that when we give the narcotic there is no way to "pull it out" of the syringe PRIOR to giving to the patient. It stays put and everyone can see it. When we waste,...

  24. Student Resources: Health Assessment Materials

    PostOpPrincess replied to VickyRN's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    THIS IS SO AWESOME!!!!!!! Thank you so much!

  25. Education vs Experience

    PostOpPrincess replied to Airforce1's topic in General Nursing

    A women's clinic would bore me to tears. Anything that didn't involve intensive and high acuity would bore me to tears-- that is just me. I do not think we are telling the OP NOT to go to school--I...