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  1. Attention All Nurses....

    geez u guys sound so positive and optomistic. op alot of what everyone said is unfortunately right but do some exstensive research on nursing and maybe you'll like it. Me personally i love the...
  2. Question for my fellow nurses!

    while it would've been best NOT to mention ED to MICU or vice versa, I don't think you'll definitely get axed over it. Besides alot of managers talk to each other anyway soooo. If anything it's more...
  3. Why can't nurses intubate?

    Do CRNA's even intubate on a regular basis? pardon me if that's an ignorant
  4. Is it common practice to see IV fluids (normal saline) ordered on patients with chest pain. I've had a few chest pain come in my ED and some docs like to order fluids. My rationale was that it was to...
  5. Adult ICU nurse really wanting NICU

    Perhaps you two should trade places...... https://allnurses.com/trauma-icu/nicu-nurse-aspiring-814450.html#post7163320 and might I add that I'd like to do NICU and adult ICU, currently in
  6. What do you love most about your floor/specialty?

    well right now I work in research and honestly it fell short of what I thought it would be, but I still work in the ER and I can say that although it was crazy ED will probably be the best area of...
  7. What Are The Rationales for these two treatments?

    Yes I will say we have such a practice of (atleast what I've seen from alot of docs) of putting up IV fluids for just about everyone (non-CHF/RF patients of course) and of course for good reason. Alot...
  8. Things You Didn't Learn in Nursing School

    Things I didn't learn??? Oh boy where do I start.... I didn't learn how to... - Assess a sick or deteriorating patient, they only teach you to assess healthy patients in nursing school...smh - How...
  9. How to resolve a "Letter of Admonition"??

    You are wrong for
  10. Interesting Question: Do You Know?

    Now when you administer lets say about 2-3 maybe upwards of 4 liter boluses of IV fluids how much do you expect the hgb/crit to drop? *dilutional* I'm thinking about 1-2 points right? Is their any...
  11. The Faces Behind the Scene at allnurses.com!

    *tear*
  12. Or worse yet when their family members are nurses at the same hospital. Well I recently went per-diem at my ER job and worked my first shift back in a month and a half. (Thank God I wasn't as rusty as...
  13. blood transfusion

    If meaning irradiated, I know patients with positive antibodies in their blood or patients on chemo may receive irradiated
  14. Offered a position as research coordinator

    sounds sweet! wow I'm an ED nurse who just transitioned to research nursing. I never new there were positions for ED research, that's great! sorry I'm new to research myself so I don't have any advice...
  15. RN looking to get into research

    maybe try colleges or universities that are big in research. I work at a big research instituition and got the job by pure luck with no research background. good luck, keep looking and don't give
  16. How Can You Be A Nurse With No Clinical Background?

    Obviously, sorry perhaps I should clarify my
  17. New nurse graduate working as a clinical research nurse?

    I have no idea. i just started research but not as a new grad or at the NIH, but I wish you great luck. maybe google for more info on that if you dont get enough responses
  18. Research nursing is a relatively new and developing area of nursing. Something I have been wanting to try for about 3 years now and now I finally found & took a job in this area of nursing. I...
  19. working in an extremely busy ER, and I mean dangerously busy, like a new patient from triage every 10 minutes, or crazy resus bay we never actually stand and witness wastes. Unfortunately we are...
  20. When a patient states "something isnt right..."

    I recently had a patient who was demented at baseline, confused and at times agitated, all which was normal for her as per the family. She kept trying to get out of bed but later calmed down, then she...
  21. I was reading another thread and related to this topic. It seems as though the days of graduating from nursing school and easily finding a job in any speciality (or one of your choice) are long gone....
  22. Favoritism in nursing?

    I am dealing with rampant favoritism at work at this time too. It's literally a handful of people who are the favorites and the rest are not even treated fairly assignment wise. I've learned that...
  23. so occasionally when our regular assistant managers are off or vacation, the manager from our holding unit (basically a med-surg unit) will stand in. Her background is in ICU and probably med-surg....
  24. More Proof That Surgeons Are HUGE JERKS!

    oh wow really? sorry about that. sigh I think about that sometimes
  25. Confusing Levo and Neo

    I'd love to know too. i often confuse them as well. let me see levophed= norepinephrine Neosynephrine= phenylephrine ok so now that we know that errr,,, sorry i got