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I work night ER as well and my shift is 18-06, I used to stay up all night the night before I worked so I could go to bed at 0800 and get some uninterrupted sleep like a normal person, then I got married and my wife is also a nurse, but she is now a 06-18 day nurse at the same hospital. That causes it's own chaos trying to see each other besides at shift change, so now I sleep the night before I work and get up around 0730-0800 and stay up til 1200 or 1300 and then sleep til 1600, and that has worked out much better than I thought it would. I work 2-3 nights at a time, when I get off at 06 and have to go to work the next night I go to bed by 08-09 and sleep til 1600, but if I'm going on several days off I go home and try to be in bed by 0700 and wake up around 1200 and stay up til 2100-2200 and try to sleep all night, if I think I'm gonna have trouble 10mg of melatonin helps, then I'm on day schedule til I work again, hope it helps, congrats on ER and hope u enjoy nights, it's a great shift to be on

Thanks, that is great info and is greatly appreciated

Hey, I'm working currently as a pretty new full time ER nurse. One of my career goals is to be a flight nurse after I get enough ER experience. I've heard about CEN (Certified Emergency Nurse) and (Certified Flight Registered Nurse) tests that are required for many flight companies. From what I have heard these tests are extremely difficult and I have seen ER nurses that have been working for a long time and are considered to be great ER nurses, fail the CEN and I heard CFRN was even more difficult than the CEN. Does anybody have any suggestions on how to study for these exams or have any ideas on classes you took prior to taking these exams that helped you out?

Just curious, have u ever worked in an ER?

I hear Baghdad ER is good as well

Thanks a lot for the suggestions, I have some I didnt mention, I'll let u know when I go through my stash

I enjoy ready nurse novels especially ones with a focus on Critical care, ER, ICU, flight nursing, etc. I have all of the Echo Heron books, Trauma Junkie, Life Star 1, Operation Flight Nurse, Dr. Robert Leslie books, any suggestions outside of those would be greatly appreciated

Very nice, thank you

Lifeline sounds good, so many names to choose from

They physically moved to another state, I was talking to some veteran nurse friends, they said that when they took boards that the questions were in fact pulled from the same question bank, but states like Kansas and California made their nurses get a higher percentage of questions correct above the national average to practice in their state. The state of Texas and Oklahoma have some of the lowest requirements in the country. For example my friend couldn't pass boards in Kansas, so she moved to Texas she took it there and passed, now she is moving to California and has to retake boards because the requirements by the state of Texas to get licensure in there state is much lower than California, and if she decided to not test in California and just come back to Kansas, she would have to take boards as well to practice in our state, because once again, Texas has a much lower standard. Sorry to took me so long to reply, glad I finally found some info

Lmao I can only imagine how well that would go over

Sorry by clicking reply to ur comment I thought it was doing that, I guess on my fone you have to double click reply for it to do the quote thing

I like those especially the first one. Yeah we have a really good air transport n Kansas called EagleMed and they give out all kinds of trinkets such as clocks, pens, cups, back packs, name badge holder, coasters, pads of paper, so whatever we r doin, good chance u r at least seeing their product with a phone number on it, smart marketing

Yes. I work for a transfer company, and we do ALS and BLS transfers, it depends on who is on call that day. If I'm on as a nurse, we r ALS and can take pts with drips, if they only have A-EMT then they are limited, if I ever had one of my own, I would want RN, paramedic and mayb even RT

It would be a mobile ICU, but at the same time, you have to watch how you advertise, u think ICU u think expensive, you don't want people to overlook ur service when they have pud transfers because they think they don't have a critical enough patient for your service, we have an ambulance services in our area that we will sacrifice time to use because they take the highest acuity ground transfers, if we have non critical transfers we just send em with the county because the patients are stable