flightnursetaylor

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1. WHY do I need a BSN?

   flightnursetaylor replied to AnnMarie52471's topic in Diploma, ADN, BSN

   My comments on how having a Bachelors Degree doesn't make a better

2. WHY do I need a BSN?

   flightnursetaylor replied to AnnMarie52471's topic in Diploma, ADN, BSN

   Based on Anecdotal evidence. I have seen nurses before and after they complete their BSN. Their patient care is always excellent and doesn't change one bit after they get that piece of paper. I...

3. WHY do I need a BSN?

   flightnursetaylor replied to AnnMarie52471's topic in Diploma, ADN, BSN

   This may have been pointed out already but I haven't had the chance to read through all 5 pages of the comments. BSN does not make you a better bedside nurse. It makes you look good on paper....

4. Central Lines and EZ IO needs

   flightnursetaylor replied to flightnursetaylor's topic in General Nursing

   excellent point! I will make sure and avoid the DON'T pictures. That really is great

5. Central Lines and EZ IO needs

   flightnursetaylor replied to flightnursetaylor's topic in General Nursing

   EMS folks are very visual with a lot of ADD/ADHD thrown into the mix. thanks for the feedback. I did contact the Bard representative and she is supposed to be calling me back. I do have some...

6. Central Lines and EZ IO needs

   flightnursetaylor replied to flightnursetaylor's topic in General Nursing

   thank you so much! I am traveling out of state to do this class but if I can get to a supermarket nearby, I think I will go ahead and try

7. Central Lines and EZ IO needs

   flightnursetaylor posted a topic in General Nursing

   I am an instructor for a Paramedic Education program as well as an educator for our Air Medical Team and I am a prn national speaker for critical care in EMS. I would really love to get my own...

8. Do you remember everything from nursing school?

   flightnursetaylor replied to Darkpk55's topic in General Nursing

   I have been a nurse for 13 years and I hardly remember anything. I learned more in my first year on a busy med-surg unit that I ever did in nursing school. but of course, I had some great preceptors...

9. Going from RN to Paramedic

   flightnursetaylor replied to mater44's topic in Emergency

   I was in the same boat you were. I have been an RN for over 13 years and just got my EMT-B by taking a weekend course and challenging the state (Missouri). I was an ER nurse for several years before...

10. Odd rituals at work

    flightnursetaylor replied to abbaking's topic in General Nursing

    While I am a drip rearranger and a disinfector also, I HATED it when my relief nurse would be doing this while I was trying to give her a bedside report. I felt like she wasn't listening to a word I...

11. Help from childbirth educators

    flightnursetaylor replied to monkeybug's topic in Patient Education

    I would go to the local public health clinic. They a lot of literature available and you can get the name of the publisher on the back of the pamphlet to order more for yourself and your classes....

12. Confess! Whats the craziest force of habit you've done in the "Real World"

    flightnursetaylor replied to vhern246's topic in Nursing Humor

    I will find myself dreaming of call lights going off and will get up to search the house in order to shut them off. Only after I have gone up and down my hall do I wake up enough to realize it was...

13. DKA versus HHNK

    flightnursetaylor posted a topic in General Nursing

    I am an RN and also a fill-in paramedic student instructor. I am working on a lesson regarding diabetes and recognizing DKA versus HHNK. I am must curious as to how high you have seen blood glucose...

14. Fundus palping

    flightnursetaylor replied to nurse/midwifekim's topic in Ob/Gyn

    I agree with the palpating. If your computer prompts you for position and height, you cannot legally chart in those spaces until you have done a palpation. So many postpartums can have trouble with...