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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 now I can't seem to hit a sewer pipe with a 24g. ...

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 from Erlanger for an RN position. I know the nurse re...

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 anymore. Does any one recently enrolled know if t...

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 paramedic with one of the EMS services.

ER! Love!!!

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 I LOVE my job. My coworkers are amazing, my precep...

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 assigned to another team of nurses. Both teams al...

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 of my classmates are still looking for jobs. It h...

The hospital that I teched at before getting my RN had a color coded policy and you STILL had to tell people who you were. Patients still would misidentify me as their nurse, managers of other floors that I floated to would ask if I was the float nur...

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

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 persistently went after the ER job I wanted. I got it and c...

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

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, everyone). I love that even as a new nurse, I can ...

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 monitor for me instead of coming to me and telling ...

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 999mL/HR 99% of the time - but just because it's goin...

Bolus on a pump = 999mL/hr.

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 immensely, and I don't view either one of us as be...

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 couldn't get much better than the master classic ...

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 4:1.

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. :/

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 strips, delivered a baby and did it all over again. I...

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 region. I searched for some possible interview que...

This made my day. :)

Got my quick results today and I passed! YAY!

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 both ATI and Saunders really helped because there ...