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  1. How long until you were pretty good at IV starts?

    sweetER posted a topic in Emergency

    I am a new grad in ER, and have been on orientation for about two months. I got my required number of IV starts for checkoff purposes pretty quickly, half of which my preceptor coached me through, and...

  2. Chattanooga hospitals/Erlanger Q and interview help

    sweetER posted a topic in General Nursing

    I am graduating from with my BSN at the end of July. I live right smack between Chattanooga and Atlanta, so I am looking at hospitals in both cities. I recently received a request for an interview...

  3. UAB FNP financial aid/cost?

    sweetER posted a topic in Post Graduate Students

    I am looking into UAB's FNP program, and I noticed that although it used to clearly state that because it was online, out of state students would be charged in state tuition, I don't see that on there...

  4. CA new grad RN wants to volunteer in Alabama at disaster sites

    sweetER replied to NewGradRN10's topic in General Nursing

    I am not sure how it is in Alabama, but I work in N. Ga near Ringgold where there was an EF-4 and they are turning volunteers away , and are not allowing nurses to help unless they are also an EMT or...

  5. Med Surg or ER for New Grad

    sweetER replied to BABYJADE06's topic in Nursing Career

    I graduated in December and started my first nursing job at a level 2 trauma center in February. I knew I wanted ER and went after it, and that was the best thing I could have done for myself because...

  6. Trauma Room Staffing (not ratios...)

    sweetER replied to beepeadoo's topic in Emergency

    In our ER, we have four single-bed trauma/resus rooms. Two of them are assigned to one team of nurses (usually start out the day with 2 and get a 3rd nurse around 9am-11am) and the other two rooms are...

  7. About to graduate with no hospital employment experience

    sweetER replied to AJPV's topic in General Nursing

    Definitely keep trying to land a tech job. I got one just six months before graduation, and because of that, got an RN job (at another hospital) exactly where I wanted - ER- before taking boards. Many...

  8. Temps in the ER

    sweetER replied to LegzRN's topic in Emergency

    Same as you! We check at triage and then only recheck if it was abnormal. Our educator doesn't seem to

  9. Should new grads always start on a med/surg floor?

    sweetER replied to swaffy8's topic in General Nursing

    No. Life is too short to spend any of it working somewhere you won't enjoy (unless there's no other options). I knew I wanted ER after graduation, so I turned down offers for other units and...

  10. UAB FNP financial aid/cost?

    sweetER replied to sweetER's topic in Post Graduate Students

    Thanks so much! That does help answer part of my question!

  11. ER?

    sweetER replied to droider's topic in Emergency

    I'm a new grad in ER, but I love it so, so much. The people I work with are amazing- I've never been anywhere with so much teamwork and camaraderie amongst the entire department (dr's, nurses, techs,...

  12. Starting as an ER Tech, what do you nurses want from me?

    sweetER replied to NurseMaybeBaby's topic in Emergency

    I'm a new nurse in ER, and our ER doesn't use a lot of techs, but one thing I would LOVE is if every tech who walked a chest pain patient to their room from triage would go ahead and put them on the...

  13. Hypotension question

    sweetER replied to SNIXRN's topic in General Nursing

    I guess I should clarify. I agree with what everybody else said about assessing your patient and taking into consideration their PMH when administering a bolus. In my ER, though, we run boluses at...

  14. Hypotension question

    sweetER replied to SNIXRN's topic in General Nursing

    Bolus on a pump =

  15. Is nursing "care" a thing of the past?

    sweetER replied to AnneBlunnRN's topic in General Nursing

    Wow. I think targeting BSN nurses is really uncalled for. I am a BSN nurse, but the nurses I work with are about 70% ADN because we have an ADN program in town where most of them went. I respect them...

  16. Littmann Cardiology III OR Master Cardiology Stethoscope for a student?

    sweetER replied to Dewailer's topic in Scrubs, Uniforms, Gear

    I haven't used the cardiology III but I bought myself a Master Cardiology for graduation and I love it! I had a Littman Master Classic during school and also loved it, and really thought a stethoscope...

  17. Which specialties have 3 pts/nurse or less?

    sweetER replied to RPN_2012's topic in General Nursing

    This makes me feel even more blessed to be in the ER that I am. We are nearly always 3:1. Only time we'd have more is if we were short and had to take one of the psych rooms and then we'd be

  18. Normal to feel so stupid?

    sweetER replied to Virgo_RN's topic in Emergency

    So glad to hear I'm not alone in feeling this way. I'm a few weeks into my 3 month preceptorship in a level II trauma center and most days I feel like the dumbest nurse on the planet.

  19. New grad L&D interview help?

    sweetER posted a topic in Ob/Gyn

    I am a senior nursing student who will be graduating next month. I have an interview next Tuesday for an L&D RN position at a large hospital that often gets high-risk deliveries from all over the...

  20. New grad L&D interview help?

    sweetER replied to sweetER's topic in Ob/Gyn

    I am a person who needs variety, lots of it. While some pregnancies/deliveries will be different, when I shadowed I felt like we checked cervixes over and over, kept an eye on the fetal monitoring...

  21. I Wanna Be An ER Nurse

    sweetER replied to texicannc's topic in Emergency

    This made my day.

  22. Welcome NCLEX February 2011 Test Takers

    sweetER replied to jabwemet's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    Got my quick results today and I passed!

  23. Welcome NCLEX February 2011 Test Takers

    sweetER replied to jabwemet's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    I used the CD that came with the Saunders test prep book, retook all the ATI practices tests they'd given us codes for in school, and just looked up any disease I needed clarification on. I think the...

  24. Welcome NCLEX February 2011 Test Takers

    sweetER replied to jabwemet's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    Well... honestly, there were a lot of questions where I felt like I was purely guessing- meds I'd never heard of, diseases I hadn't focused on when studying... But there were some where I was...

  25. Care plans are stupid.

    sweetER replied to maestrotee's topic in General Nursing

    I never thought I'd say this... because I hated care plans... but they really do help you to think about what's going on with your patient, and after you have what feels like the 4 millionth patient...