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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 of the babies that need surgical interventions done...

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 required, rather than ICU experience specifically. I...

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 delivery, post postpartum, nursery, cath lab, surg...

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 Chemistry. Then our school had a HESI for each clinica...

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 anyone who wants to advance or change must seek thes...

Considering BS programs differ from AS programs mainly by BASICS unrelated to nursing, I'm not sure what the propaganda is - other than being well rounded? Making BS a required minimum would decrease entry because of cost rather than intellect. RN ...

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 women skin was turning kinda mottled/greenish purple. ...

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 sedated, what the settings on the drip are, and restrain...

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 then the next nurse, treats you horribly, so you g...

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 you know what you really want to do? Figure out yo...

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 is concerned. There are a lot of places in Texas ...

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

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 internship in the ICU. All of the New Grads who go...

My managers name was Giri, and for those who couldn't pronounce it, said Kumar. What's so hard about Giri?

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

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 problem is found to be systemic or out of our contr...

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 all of the units that I've seen (but I thought th...

I'm not sure exactly... mostly, it's what's natural argument. Next is probably traditional roles, and how he sees me as his wife (yet he wants me to have an income). I'm sure its for the benefits of breast feeding as well. I asked him about it a...

This is really interesting and very relevant. Thanks for sharing Canoehead!

My second Med/Surg was great. The hospital was small so they couldn't put all of us on the Med/Surg units. So we rotated around to see Cardiac Cath, PACU, Endo, Peri Operative... cant remember what else. Med/Surg is so broad spectrum, you should ...

My friend only complained about the titer because getting lab work done is so EXPENSIVE and many nursing students are on a fixed income. She, and many of us had Varciella when we were children and its frustrating to have to pay big bucks to prove we...

I'm sorry this is all directed at you BabyCatchr... but we need to remember that there are many important things - like providing accurate info on how to use a car seat. Call me young, dumb and uninformed way back then - but when I left the hospita...

Everything that we do or say affects a life other than our own. Some of you ladies are really raising my blood pressure. If I had pree clampsia this would have far worse effects on my baby. BTW, I did have pre eclampsia... just as well I didn't ha...

Are you saying this to me? I am an RN, I just hadn't updated my info in many years. I didn't say I was non medical - I said they were the underdog. So anyway, I love this thread. I think it's more than stupid when people act like they know a lot ab...

Canoehead, I love analogies - and I think this is one is great. You mention bragging rights... maybe this is where it all starts. Women who continue their careers also have bragging rights, and I'm sure SAHMs feel looked down upon. I most definite...