Nurseboy1

Nurseboy1

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  1. ME results in Joan Rivers

    Nurseboy1 posted a topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    According to Huffingtonpost: The New York City Medical Examiner has finally revealed that lack of oxygen to Joan Rivers' brain caused her death over a month ago. According to the medical examiner's...

  2. NPs working Nights

    Nurseboy1 replied to mdevine22's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    I work 12 hour nights, and I don't rotate. I don't sleep on my shifts, I sleep during the

  3. Get CNA cert? Before NP?

    Nurseboy1 replied to Polly Peptide's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    You may think I'm bitter but I assure you that is not the case. The benefit of taking the longer path is getting broad experience and exposure to many different things. I'm well aware of Vanderbuilt's...

  4. Get CNA cert? Before NP?

    Nurseboy1 replied to Polly Peptide's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    I'm curious how you meet all the requirements to take the NCLEX after just a year. If you haven't graduated from an accredited program or completed the necessary clinical hours. Much less had the time...

  5. Get CNA cert? Before NP?

    Nurseboy1 replied to Polly Peptide's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    As a practicing ACNP, I can tell you finding a NP position without any nursing experience will be difficult. You may want to consider a program that will allow you to become a nurse first and get some...

  6. AGACNP Certification

    Nurseboy1 replied to Dr.KP's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    I took the exam a year ago. If you took the review and studied your plan you should do well. Best of

  7. Dumbest thing a doctor has done/said to you

    Nurseboy1 replied to WorriedNurse25's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Bipap for pneumonia? Sounds like the patient needed to be

  8. Pros and Cons to becoming a Nurse Practioner (NP)

    Nurseboy1 replied to savedbygrace1228's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    I thoroughly like being a NP and would not change my career pathway. I have a good scope of practice and wide prescriptive authority. The hospital I work for compensates very well, and covers the...

  9. ACNP scope of practice in the hospital defined

    Nurseboy1 replied to bap9090's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    I primarily have responsibility for all the patients on our census. The nurses call me first with issues or needs for order clarifications. If I'm tied up with one patient and another patient needs...

  10. ACNP scope of practice in the hospital defined

    Nurseboy1 replied to bap9090's topic in Student Nurse Practitioner

    I'm an ACNP in the ICU at my hospital. I work primarily at night. Our practice model is that it is me and my attending for the whole unit. Generally I do most everything for the patients. If an...

  11. Is it still financially worth it to become CRNA?

    Nurseboy1 replied to ProgressiveThinking's topic in Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist

    ACNPs in my area have a pretty decent job outlook. However most hospitals around here are not going to hire a FNP into the ICU, so if ICU is what you want then you need to do an ACNP program. My...

  12. Is it still financially worth it to become CRNA?

    Nurseboy1 replied to ProgressiveThinking's topic in Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist

    Lol its north of

  13. Is it still financially worth it to become CRNA?

    Nurseboy1 replied to ProgressiveThinking's topic in Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist

    I work in an teaching hospital, however the ICU that I work in is exclusively run by intensivists and NP/PAs we don't have residents in our

  14. Anticoagulant Preventing CVC Insert?

    Nurseboy1 replied to betterinthesun's topic in MICU, SICU

    Working with cardiac patients, I routinely place central lines on patients that have received loading doses of plavix, aspirin, brilenta, or are on infusions of heparin, integrilin or aggrastat. I...

  15. Is it still financially worth it to become CRNA?

    Nurseboy1 replied to ProgressiveThinking's topic in Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist

    I am an ACNP in the ICU, I'm very hands on with the patients. I can intubate, place central lines, swans, A-lines, do bronchoscopy, chest tubes, LPs. And my salary is nothing to sneeze at. Just...

  16. COB rollcall

    Nurseboy1 replied to NursesRmofun's topic in General Nursing

    Then only 9 more years to go before I can join the COB society ADN-2004 BSN- 2006 MSN- 2014 Aspiring member of the COB

  17. COPDer de-satting? What do you do?

    Nurseboy1 replied to Krazziekid78's topic in General Nursing

    How recently has the patient had a cardiac workup? Cor Pormonale occurs with COPD and this new apparent activity intolerance makes me concerned for heart failure. Have they had a recent ECHO?...

  18. ACNP jobs

    Nurseboy1 replied to littlepeopleRNICU's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    I'm an ACNP. I work inpatient cardiac ICU. I work with STEMIs, Heart failure, ECMO, impellas. We also take overflow from the MICU and any other general ICU patient

  19. Help! I have to precept a new grad who already knows it all....but not really.

    Nurseboy1 replied to GOMER-RN's topic in General Nursing

    So with the benefit of hindsight in my career, I have realized that I was very likely the same kind of nightmare to precept. While I never had HR on speed dial or anything like that, I was at times...

  20. How did the 12 hour shift begin?

    Nurseboy1 replied to anon456's topic in General Nursing

    In addition to having more time off during the week, the main benefit that 12 hour shifts have for the patient is fewer handoffs. In 8 hour shifts there are 3 handoffs between providers and each one...

  21. Nurses as Costs for Hospitals

    Nurseboy1 replied to advor's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    At my hospital the billing department deals with the insurance companies. Our group of providers met with the billing department and structured our admission notes and daily progress notes that help...

  22. ME results in Joan Rivers

    Nurseboy1 replied to Nurseboy1's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    Now that I did not know, I assumed that the sedation was provided by a nurse in the clinic. I guess that makes it a bit more shocking to me, if the anesthesiologist missed the patient going

  23. Joint Commission had me for lunch.

    Nurseboy1 replied to VAC's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I can empathize, the JC was at my facility once and wanted to observe a rapid response call if it happened. Of course one was called and I was the charge nurse that responded and got to deal with a...

  24. Case Study: Fever

    Nurseboy1 replied to Corey Narry's topic in Critical Care

    I think Rolando is on the quick path to intubation. Bipap doesn't seem that it will likely be beneficial given his hypoxemia and most likely has an underlying process that will resolve over days...

  25. Case Study: Fever

    Nurseboy1 replied to Corey Narry's topic in Critical Care

    87 is a completely normal blood glucose. Not at all a "tad on the low side". If he is fasting so much the better his fasting BG then would be completely