MurseMikeD

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  1. Help/Advice Needed - KCL without pump/Oncology clinic

    MurseMikeD replied to AliC's topic in General Nursing

    Maybe it's a California thing then. We can't give over 10 an hour of KCl without both cardiac monitoring and a pump. Pts needing that much go to

  2. 9 month LPN- RN Bridge Programs in Atlanta GA

    MurseMikeD replied to lpatt949's topic in LPN to RN

    I have a hard time believing

  3. I NEED HELP!

    MurseMikeD replied to lilsporty111's topic in Nursing Career

    1) "are male nurses really..btw, are male nurses attracted to guys..?" - This is like asking "do firefighters drink too much and cheat on their wives." As a man in nursing, and a former firefighter,...

  4. Help/Advice Needed - KCL without pump/Oncology clinic

    MurseMikeD replied to AliC's topic in General Nursing

    20 mEq over 3.5 hours should be fine. 20 in one hour, not okay without a pump. Standard of care, more that 10/hour requires cardiac monitoring and a

  5. Best BSN schools?

    MurseMikeD replied to worldonastrng's topic in General Nursing

    If you're at all interested in California, our board of registered nursing posts the NCLEX-RN pass rates of students from each school for the past five years at...

  6. Intracranial pressure vs. hypovolaemia -- which is first priority???

    MurseMikeD replied to davidthenurse's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    You'll surely have an opportunity to learn the finer points of how cerebral perfusion pressure and mean arterial pressure relate to intracranial pressure at some point in your education. This is...

  7. Intracranial pressure vs. hypovolaemia -- which is first priority???

    MurseMikeD replied to davidthenurse's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    If your patient bleeds out the ICP isn't going to matter. ABCs, address the bleeding first. Any green EMT could tell you that. Source - Experience in prehospital EMS and neuroscience critical

  8. Ethical/Professional situation....

    MurseMikeD replied to mwboswell's topic in Emergency

    Makes me glad I work in California where we have a fixed patient-to-nurse ratio by

  9. Peer Mentor Program in NS

    MurseMikeD replied to supersam34's topic in General Students

    Partly depends on how your curriculum's set up. I helped institute such a program at my school, and the one thing we found interesting was that it helped to pair male students together. They guys...

  10. I don't get it

    MurseMikeD replied to 2bJoshRN9788's topic in General Students

    I'll second the first response, that the Saunders review questions are too easy and Kaplan is

  11. ATTN: bay area RN new grads.. Were you able to land a new grad job?

    MurseMikeD replied to pogiboy67's topic in California Nursing

    Who told you that we don't intern at Samuel Merritt? I just finished

  12. Please help me chose my NP specialty! An aspiring NP's dilemma . . .

    MurseMikeD replied to Ramiegrl's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    It's a tall order to choose an NP specialty with no actual nursing experience. Many of us find ourselves in very different areas of nursing after school than those we entered school with an interest...

  13. Drug testing

    MurseMikeD replied to ashley56's topic in General Students

    I hate to be the downer here, but more than likely this will be a problem for you both as a nursing student and even more so as a nurse. You will at some point before you are allowed in a clinical...

  14. Samuel Merritt BSN Fall 2009?

    MurseMikeD replied to bluechick112's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    I graduated from the BSN program at Samuel Merritt a couple of weeks ago. The BSN program accepts very few if any transfer students (meaning those who aren't from Mills, Holy Names, or Saint Mary's)...

  15. Please, answer re CSU East Bay-Hayward school info

    MurseMikeD replied to futuredream's topic in California Nursing

    I went to school not far from you, Samuel Merritt University in Oakland, but every program is very different. Contact CSU-East Bay to find out what your schedule might look

  16. anyone here an EMT?

    MurseMikeD replied to mashamontago's topic in General Nursing

    I've been an EMT for almost six years and recently earned a Bachelor of Science degree in nursing. It would help to know where you're from first. There are significant differences in how EMTs are...