ICUnurse1997 MSN, APRN

Bob suddenly returns after he went missing two weeks ago. He was last seen during an epic code brown. He is weak and disheveled and will never speak about what happened during his disappearance.

So just because you are having coffee ground emesis and are too weak to stand up you think you can leave early?

Is that chocolate on your scrubs or did Mrs. Jones need another enema?

“I just worked for a week straight because nobody could come or go from the hospital due to inclement weather. Guess I better get some rest because my manager asked me to work a double tomorrow.”

I feel that ham radio is an important means of emergency communication. I am an amateur extra and was wondering how I could get involved with emergency communication in my area to assist local hospitals in a disaster situation. Is anyone involved in...

I took the ANCC AGACNP exam last week and it was nothing like I expected. The questions were so random and weird. There really is no good way to prepare for it. I felt like I was making so many guesses that I couldn't be passing the exam. I am so...

We don't have techs watching our monitors in the ICU. The nurses are responsible for watching and interpreting the rhythms. The medical and surgical floors have remote monitor techs watching their monitors.

We recently encountered an issue in our unit regarding measuring and interpreting monitor strips. Our policy is to print strips every 4 hours and measure intervals and write an interpretation of the rhythm. I had a patient with an inferior MI who h...

I think you may be confusing what we're talking about with something else. The CMC is a subspecialty certification in cardiac medicine.

OMG. The CMC exam was more difficult than I expected. I did pass it, but during the test I was certain of failure. I felt like some of the questions came totally out of the blue, and I just guessed at several of them. I had studied all about card...

It would be helpful to know if you're an ICU nurse already, or if you are a student in an ICU rotation without previous ICU experience, to know how in depth of a topic you need. In my unit, I assessed that there was a learning need regarding intra a...

I am currently studying using the AACN CME review on DVD. I am about half way through the DVD's and they seem to be pretty good. Is there anyone who has used the MED ED review?

Are you referring to Genesis Health System in the Quad Cities? If so, I work there and I think it is a pretty good place to work.