erinnRN

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1. just don't get it

   erinnRN posted a topic in Online 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 degree and never go to a class. If you are currentl...

2. Feel like a job-hopper

   erinnRN posted a topic in MICU

   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 around at the time I took it, night shift in a small h...

3. Correlating monitor cuff pressure with manual?

   erinnRN replied to erinnRN's topic in MICU

   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 reason to believe it wasn't right. also, i have work...

4. Correlating monitor cuff pressure with manual?

   erinnRN posted a topic in MICU

   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 monitor cuff.... just curious of what your routine...

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

   erinnRN replied to bluesky's topic in MICU

   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 quality tech, who would actually do your blood sugars 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 night positions left (in ICU - I refuse to work med...

7. Verbal abuse by physicians in ICU

   erinnRN posted a topic in MICU

   :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 transplant from a much larger ICU where physicians t...

8. Tympanic temps in ICU?

   erinnRN posted a topic in MICU

   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 orienting me where are the oral or rectal thermomet...

9. Scared to be "THAT agency nurse"

   erinnRN posted a topic in Agency

   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. Apparantly she had been working agency for 20 years ...

10. Pregnancy while agency nsg.

    erinnRN posted a topic in Agency

    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 -- what I want to know is, do you get maternity time...

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

    erinnRN posted a topic in Pennsylvania

    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 area. Any advice on where to go would be helpful. ...

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 there. And that statement has come out of my mouth...

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 it's not going to work. The patient acuity doesn't bo...

14. Need a good ICU book

    erinnRN posted a topic in MICU

    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 or whatever. oh, and any other advice for me! tha...

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 or whatever. oh, and any other advice for me! tha...