Bekahlynn

Bekahlynn

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About Bekahlynn

BSN grad 05/05. One more year of school baby

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  1. ? re: starting as a new nurse/$/training etc

    i have a friend who works at a children's hospital, they rotate days and nights, with self-scheduling. she loves it. those shift diffs seem low to me. where i work, night shift diff is over $4 an...
  2. just graduated in may, my check last week was a little over $1400 after taxes and insurance. thats for two weeks. it makes me
  3. CVVH and the 1:1 assignment

    always 1:1 for us as well. calculating the I/O's, readjusting the machine, (and trying to keep it running), changing the dialysate and replacement fluid bags, checking coags q2 and adjusting the...
  4. End of Life

    Our end of life protocol consists of orders for MS and ativan IVP PRN and MS and ativan gtts if needed, and Robinul for secretion management. Our food services provide a cart with cookies, tea and...
  5. Anyone?

    I am a brand new RN, graduated in may, passed NCLEX in june. I work in Indy, live pretty much right on the Marion county/Shelby county line. Graduated with my BSN from IUSON at Indianapolis. Good...
  6. If you could no longer be a nurse?...

    President? :rotfl: just kidding. I too would love to go to culinary school and be a chef. Maybe a teacher (my older brother is one, and my little brother who just started college wants to be
  7. Your Favorite???

    Not from NC, but I have vacationed there 4 times, and my parents go every year, sometimes 2x a year. They/I have always stayed in Carolina/Kure Beach or the outer banks. I love the state....
  8. From a Graduate RN to CNA/UAP

    At my hospital, they used to do the same thing, make GN's work as techs if they didn't pass the NCLEX on their first attempt. But now they are saying that one is still a GN, and needs to learn the...
  9. What's you're favorite skill?

    :chuckle
  10. What's you're favorite skill?

    ME TOO!! I was so pumped the other day to get one on a lady whose pressure was 70. (She was on levophed, and the drip rate kept going up,up,up) Weak, barely there radial pulse, and I did it (BTW,...
  11. What's you're favorite skill?

    silly, but central line dressing changes. I love to see a spotless central line site, with a perfectly applied dressing with no
  12. I am 11 weeks in to my orientation, with 4 to go. I go to nights, the shift I will be working, next week. I cannot believe how much I have learned in the last three months. Feels like more than what...
  13. And the Classes Continue.

    aside from the general charting/IV, etc classes during general RN orientation, I had to take a 2 day ortho/neuro class, a 3 day arrhythmia interpretation class (lead II), a 2 day respiratory class, a...
  14. Why don't nursing schools offer ICU electives?

    At my school, we also had to take a multi-systems failure class our senior year. the clinical time was ICU and ER. They also offer an elective OR class with clinical time and an elective NICU class,...
  15. Looking for tips on landing an ICU job.

    Roland, if I remember from a previous post, you live in Indy. I just graduated a couple of months ago, and just took the NCLEX three weeks ago. I was hired and am now working in an ICU. I worked on...