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  1. Discontinuing IJ turned into a Rapid Response

    questionsforall replied to Manatee111's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    The patient should be laying in as flat a position (preferably slight trendelenburg) as they can tolerate and they should be holding breath in order to prevent air embolis. Just to add that I was...

  2. I am a teacher wanting to change my career to nursing. Advice please!?

    questionsforall replied to erman10's topic in General Nursing

    I know someone who was teacher during the week and the regular school year and ob/gyn nurse per

  3. if u had to choose another career in healthcare besides nursing, what would it be?

    questionsforall replied to ErinDel's topic in General Nursing

    pharmacist or

  4. Who's going to Anesthesia school?

    questionsforall replied to jrec's topic in Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist

    Did you try taking graduate level physiology or pathophysiology or even advanced pharmacology? I think even if you go the NP route those are classes you would have to take, so you wouldn't be wasting...

  5. Working while in CRNA school

    questionsforall posted a topic in Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist

    I was just curious if there was anyone out there that picked up a couple of shifts while in CRNA school? Anyone work full time? If so, did you feel it was a bad decision? Was your program front...

  6. Experience before CRNA School

    questionsforall replied to jfk6668's topic in Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist

    I would have to disagree with this comment. I have experience in both the MICU and CTICU. I will tell you that MICU patients can be more challenging and of a larger variety than CTICU patients....

  7. Medical Students vs. Nursing Students

    questionsforall replied to psustudent5's topic in General Students

    I will tell you taht the smartest MD is the one that works together with their nurses as a team. The worst doctors are the ones that believe that nurses are below them and are their to carry out...

  8. Whose going to Anesthesia School?!

    questionsforall replied to BananaBag's topic in Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist

    I am going to Columbia

  9. could rifampin treatment cause liver failure down the road?

    questionsforall replied to anangelsmommy's topic in General Nursing

    Sometimes I see them testing for these autoimmune disorders . Tylenol overdose is the know reason because the patient usually admits to the overdose. In the case of the statins the patient had...

  10. Clinical Instructor stories, share some of you best and most descriptive stories

    questionsforall replied to AR2010's topic in General Nursing

    I think that someone in my class got sent home for wearing black socks to our first clinical. I remember the first skill lab we had to demonstrate wash ing our hands and demonstrate donning gloves...

  11. could rifampin treatment cause liver failure down the road?

    questionsforall replied to anangelsmommy's topic in General Nursing

    I worked in an ICU with patients in liver failure. I will tell you that I have seen patient's awaiting transplant with the a large variety of causes for their liver failure. Most of them are not...

  12. texting at work

    questionsforall posted a topic in Nursing Professionalism

    I don't know if it bothers anyone else, but I think that constantly texting at work (I mean constant, like their eyes never leave the phone) when you are suppossed to be taking care of patient's is so...

  13. Rising Above It All.....

    questionsforall replied to greenfiremajick's topic in General Nursing

    I agree with afrocentric RN. Don't get involved in the cliques. Go to work and focus on your patients and work. Listen and learn about the different personalities of the nurses and learn who to...

  14. Nobody Likes A Tattle Tail

    questionsforall replied to sassyrn333's topic in General Nursing

    I love when I am giving report after running around all day and the rat is finding the one little mistake I made wanting to point it out and then tattle on me (it doesn't have to be a mistake, just...

  15. Nobody Likes A Tattle Tail

    questionsforall replied to sassyrn333's topic in General Nursing

    I think that it is only done because it is condoned by the manager. It is the manager's issue. The manager should tell the rat to talk it out with the person they have the issue with instead of...

  16. Patients in detox -- we need dedicated units!!

    questionsforall replied to SoundofMusic's topic in General Nursing

    Count me

  17. question about what type of critical care unit to go into?

    questionsforall replied to aflac381's topic in General Nursing

    I agree. They even cut the new grad residency program for entry into the ICU at my hospital because it was too expensive and half the time the new grad does not make it through the residency and works...

  18. Very disappointed in treatment by fellow co-workers

    questionsforall replied to mondkmondk's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    Because that would make life

  19. Student nurses do the darndest things

    questionsforall replied to NurseNinaFla's topic in General Nursing

    I remember my first clinical in nursing school. It took me all morning to give a bed bath (on one patient). It took me three hours, without doing anything else. It was in a nursing home and every...

  20. Hello Stress, nice to see you again, NOT!

    questionsforall replied to ilovejose22's topic in General Nursing

    I don't know what the big deal is about getting a second Associate's degree. I had my BA when I went back to CC to get my ADN. I did not have the money to afford anything else and I needed to work...

  21. nursing vs education

    questionsforall replied to tlamb1180's topic in General Nursing

    I say become a nurse. Then get your experience as a nurse. Then teach nursing. You can have the best of both

  22. Are there any LPN-RN programs in/near NYC? Current program is a mess.

    questionsforall replied to caffeineRx's topic in General Nursing

    What about excelsior college (It is online). I don't know about the LPN to RN component because I did the RN to BSN, but I know that they offer one and many of the people in my courses for the BSN...

  23. Wear and Tear,your thoughts......

    questionsforall replied to Otessa's topic in General Nursing

    I have plantar faciitis as well and only after 8 years of bedside care, 4 nursing and 4 CNA. I am also a runner which probably also adds to the heel pain (although I cut down on my running...

  24. Anyone hear from Columbia

    questionsforall posted a topic in Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist

    Hey all, I was just wondering if anyone that applied to columbia university CRNA program to start summer of 2010 has heard anything about an interview

  25. Anyone hear from Columbia

    questionsforall replied to questionsforall's topic in Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist

    I was just wondering if everyone was nervous/excited for Friday? I am