erinnRN

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1. just don't get it

   erinnRN posted a topic in Online Distance Learning

   Hello. I am looking to get my masters (i have my BSN) but am far away from any univ. that offers it. I see alot on online degrees but i can't seem to wrap my brain around the fact that you can get a...

2. Feel like a job-hopper

   erinnRN posted a topic in MICU, SICU

   How many times have you changed jobs? I moved twice in one year, had to change jobs both times. I've been working in this last hospital now for a little over 6 months. It was the ONLY ICU opening...

3. Correlating monitor cuff pressure with manual?

   erinnRN replied to erinnRN's topic in MICU, SICU

   whew thank you!!! last week i got into an argument with this "doctor" who said..."you verified that pressure with a manual, right??" the patient's systolic was 90, and prehospital was 104. i had no...

4. Correlating monitor cuff pressure with manual?

   erinnRN posted a topic in MICU, SICU

   Hello fellow ICU nurses: Question: do you routinely correlate your monitor NIBP with the manual cuff with every admission and every patient? i don't mean verifying aline pressures with the manual or...

5. POLL: How much tech help do you have in your ICU?

   erinnRN replied to bluesky's topic in MICU, SICU

   I now work in a place with none, which I love. Simply because I have worked in ICU's with 1 and even 2, and i found them...well to put it nicely...well i can't put it nicely. even if you found a...

6. Suffering thru night shift position for your kids sake

   erinnRN replied to Nursesuzi's topic in General Nursing

   hello. i have also had to "suffer" through night shift, but have been doing it longer. when i left my first job (all day shift) because of having to move, i was shocked to hear there was nothing but...

7. Verbal abuse by physicians in ICU

   erinnRN posted a topic in MICU, SICU

   :angryfire I have been in ICU for 4 years now, in 3 different hospitals. Never, have i EVER experienced or witnessed as much verbal abuse as I have since coming to this last hospital. I am a recent...

8. Tympanic temps in ICU?

   erinnRN posted a topic in MICU, SICU

   I just changed jobs from a Level I trauma ICU to a small community hospital ICU. Among other questionable practices, I notice that 100 percent of the temps they take are tympanic. I asked the person...

9. Scared to be "THAT agency nurse"

   erinnRN posted a topic in Agency Nurses

   Hi all -- Just as I was convinced I was going to do agency when we move this upcoming Jan, a dilemma pops up. I work in an busy ICU -- we had an agency nurse come in for the first time to our unit....

10. Pregnancy while agency nsg.

    erinnRN posted a topic in Agency Nurses

    Agency nurses I need your help! I'm looking at doing agency nursing when we move -- but I haven't called around to any facilities yet. I don't need medical insurance as I have it through my husband --...

11. Any NE PA nurses?? (Schuylkill county)

    erinnRN posted a topic in Pennsylvania Nursing

    I know this is a long shot -- a joke actually to think there would be any nurses from my area -- but we will soon be moving into the Orwigsburg area -- and I am looking for agency work in the Reading...

12. How to quit

    erinnRN replied to erinnRN's topic in General Nursing

    Thanks everyone. I feel a little better, thought I won't feel totally better until I find a better place to work. I've never said "just go to work, do your job and get your paycheck" until I started...

13. How to quit

    erinnRN posted a topic in General Nursing

    Hello -- A few months ago (April), I started a new job in an ICU. (Left the old job because my husband got relocated) To make a long story short, I believe I've been there long enough to know that...

14. Need a good ICU book

    erinnRN posted a topic in MICU, SICU

    Hi! I will be starting as a new ICU nurse the beginning of May. I have come from a Transitional ICU but we did not get Swans, alot of drips and CVVH....I was wondering about a good ICU book -- nursing...

15. Need a good ICU book

    erinnRN posted a topic in General Nursing

    Hi! I will be starting as a new ICU nurse the beginning of May. I have come from a Transitional ICU but we did not get Swans, alot of drips and CVVH....I was wondering about a good ICU book -- nursing...