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    How do I get in ER!!!!!!!!!!!!

    Da_Milk_of_Amnesia replied to Mrs leese's topic in Emergency

    You can forget about getting into a ER with out a year of Med/Surg in New York. Apparent (as I found out) there is some BS regulation that says you need a year before you can go to an ED. I have 8+...
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    First year RN School.. any advice?

    Da_Milk_of_Amnesia replied to FutureOBNurse2118's topic in General Nursing

    Expect alot of studying, alot of things you've probably never heard or seen before. A test format that makes you wanna stab yourself in the face with a dull knife repeatedly (exaggerating a bit) and...
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    Blue lights for Catrh Lab/Surgery RN's

    Da_Milk_of_Amnesia replied to pm2rn's topic in General Nursing

    If you read literature on this topic, You actually really don't save all that much amount of time even when you're responding code 3 to an emergency call in an ambulance or fire engine. Having more...
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    Messed up my first job, now what ?

    Da_Milk_of_Amnesia replied to Da_Milk_of_Amnesia's topic in First Year After Licensure

    rn-jane - I was doing step down actually when i first started. The acuity of the patients was super high and the only people who actually stayed >24 hrs were thoracotomies and the open hearts...i...
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    Messed up my first job, now what ?

    Da_Milk_of_Amnesia posted a topic in First Year After Licensure

    We'll I'm a new grad (already have my RN since july) and I've been working doing a day shift on a extremely busy cardio-thoracic step down unit (primarily open hearts/ s/p cardiac caths/ablations etc,...
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    Messed up my first job, now what ?

    Da_Milk_of_Amnesia replied to Da_Milk_of_Amnesia's topic in First Year After Licensure

    axshusz - did you have prior EMS experience or anything like that ? It's funny because there is this one girl i graduated with who has only been in an ER during her Internship when we were all juniors...
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    Messed up my first job, now what ?

    Da_Milk_of_Amnesia replied to Da_Milk_of_Amnesia's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Thank you all for the good advice. I really needed it. Ya know I never thought that this was going to be as hard as it is. Everyone says to me (when they find out i'm an EMT) that being an EMT is...
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    Albuterol and CHF

    Da_Milk_of_Amnesia replied to voraciousj's topic in General Nursing

    I've seen many people more often nursing homes, give albuterol to people who were in full blown CHF. I've been an EMT for over 5 years (now an RN) I've gone to many nursing homes for difficulty...
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    Ahh! Huge mistake

    Da_Milk_of_Amnesia replied to Mattsgrl83's topic in General Nursing

    I'm a new RN also and I made the mistake of giving someone 30meqs of K when their K level was 5.2...I went right to my clinical coordinator and told her and we called the MD and they were not too...
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    Am I not meant for the ER

    Da_Milk_of_Amnesia replied to RileyRN's topic in First Year After Licensure

    yea my friend got murdered on Nov 26 2005 @0036....i guess after reciting to lawyers and a jury a jagillion times you tend to remember it and replaying it over, and over and over Magain...It's weird...
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    there are so many specialties I'm interested in!!

    Da_Milk_of_Amnesia replied to adpiRN's topic in General Nursing

    When I was in nursing school I wanted to be in an ICU/CCU/SICU....I wanted to handle the sickest of the sick, and the people who were trainwrecks because I worked for 8 years in EMS and all i dealt...
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    Am I not meant for the ER

    Da_Milk_of_Amnesia replied to RileyRN's topic in First Year After Licensure

    My background lies primarily in EMS, as I've been doing it since I've been 16 years old. As someone else said you tend to build up walls to keep all the horrible **** you see out. I've had my friends...