Just a Dose

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1. How to get into the NICU?

   Just a Dose replied to EarthhAngel2013's topic in NICU, Neonatal

   NRP for sure. If you can't get into NICU, try New Born nursery. Or other women services. L&D you see the baby coming and will see resuscitation. PALS certification for PICU, which has a lot...

2. Experienced RN seeking ICU residency. Help/Advice!!!

   Just a Dose replied to amazon050508's topic in Critical Care

   I had the same trouble going from ICU to NICU... especially when trying to transfer internally. So I had to check all job posting for experience required, some will say clinical or RN experience...

3. Am I crazy, because this seems VERY WRONG...

   Just a Dose replied to Fannie'sMom's topic in General Students

   You are missing a lot if you don't get to experience critical care, trauma, cv, neuro, general icu stuff, ER. Critical care is all about assessment and thinking. You also should see peds, labor and...

4. Educate a dinosaur :D

   Just a Dose replied to xtxrn's topic in General Students

   I took the HESI lots. There was a VERY long entrance exam hesi which tested the usual basics like Math, English, grammer and comprehesion, and then lots of Science. A&P, Micro, Biology and...

5. Are we trapped by our nursing degrees? Is nursing worth it?

   Just a Dose replied to Lucky724's topic in General Nursing

   Hmmm, nursing actually affords you a lot of opportunities. You may have to go back for your bachelors, or do extra work like managing projects, or going into management ect like nicuguy said. But...

6. Anti-Intellectualism/Autonomy in nursing

   Just a Dose replied to felineRN's topic in General Nursing

   There was this patient from PCU transferring to CV ICU. The patient's LOC had changed and there was an order to transfer and to get the lady BIPAP. The patient came to the ICU with a NC and the...

7. What a blow to my ego

   Just a Dose replied to letitbe_lindsay's topic in General Students

   Short explanation of patient diagnosis and treatment. Patients History and then Simple Assessment in my ICU is like: N: A&0 X3, Follows Commands, Moves All Extremities... or if they are...

8. What a blow to my ego

   Just a Dose replied to letitbe_lindsay's topic in General Students

   I've been nursing for less than a year now... I went straight to the ICU in an internship position. The statement nurses eat their young comes directly from this behavior. You've worked all shift and...

9. New Grad With Two Jobs

   Just a Dose replied to LVN2010M's topic in First Year After Licensure

   So I'm glad your so excited about your new career. It seems like you are in a huge hurry to get work experience, but your direction seems a little unclear. There are so many facets of nursing, do...

10. Should I make the decision to switch career?

    Just a Dose replied to arkmann's topic in California Nursing

    I'm in Houston and I do know of several people that haven't found Nursing jobs... graduating in Dec 09, May 09 and Dec 10. But, nursing is still a much stronger field than others as far as find jobs...

11. Should I make the decision to switch career?

    Just a Dose replied to arkmann's topic in California Nursing

    Oh, I didnt know you ment the NP program. This is con-traversal.... and I'm jealous. But go for

12. Should I make the decision to switch career?

    Just a Dose replied to arkmann's topic in California Nursing

    Hmmm, I kinda did what you did, but I used to make software for +5 years and made quite a bit of money. But, IT has a little more instability than your current job. I was recently blessed with an...

13. Safe Harbor

    Just a Dose replied to woody62's topic in Texas Nursing

    Yeah, it's too bad they don't protect the patients from hospital

14. Safe Harbor

    Just a Dose replied to woody62's topic in Texas Nursing

    Most definately. In orientation today, we were told by a nurse educator that we were still held responsible even if we invoked safe harbour. This is true, we must be held responsible... but if the...

15. Rapid Response Team & ICU

    Just a Dose replied to akrn2's topic in MICU, SICU

    The OP seems to be looking for more valid uses of a RRT. Using the term 'based' as working exclusively in ICU, not no knowledge base of critical care. The code blue teams/rrts do seem to function on...