akulahawkRN ADN, RN, EMT-P

akulahawkRN has 10 years experience as a ADN, RN, EMT-P and specializes in Emergency Department.

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   Why Succs after Etomidate?

   akulahawkRN replied to ck8ws3's topic in Critical Care

   You sedate first then use the neuromuscular blockers. It's incredibly frightening to the patient if they're awake and are paralyzed. If you don't sedate them, they'll remember everything you do to...
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   I'm 60 yrs old. Is it too late for me to become a RN?

   akulahawkRN replied to Nurse Beth's topic in Career Advice Column

   Are you dead? If the answer to that question is no, then the answer to the nursing question is no. Beyond that, whether you feel like you should become a nurse is entirely up to you and whether you...
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   Male nurses

   akulahawkRN replied to Lavi2343's topic in General Nursing

   I have been at this nursing gig for about 10 years now, all of it in the ED. About the only change I would have made was getting into nursing sooner. Women nurses can be, shall we say, about as "bad"...
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   American River College (ARC) Nursing - Fall 2025

   akulahawkRN replied to smileybear07's topic in School, College Programs

   For those of you that clicked on "accept" or "decline" from within the tracking site and before you got an email, you probably won't get a separate "congrats" email as you will have already been...
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   American River College (ARC) Nursing - Fall 2025

   akulahawkRN replied to smileybear07's topic in School, College Programs

   Congrats to all whom got accepted! If you you saw the accept/decline option when you logged in, you were selected and it is up to you to determine if you take that seat or not. If by now you haven't...
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   American River College (ARC) Nursing - Fall 2025

   akulahawkRN replied to smileybear07's topic in School, College Programs

   From my recollection, SCC and ARC both will give themselves 6-8 weeks to look over all the applications they receive. I also seem to recall that they begin changing status of applications at around...
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   How can I balance nursing school and working full-time?

   akulahawkRN replied to Nurse Beth's topic in Career Advice Column

   While I'm being both discouraging, I'm also trying to be challenging too, though probably not as well as I'd like. I think the point I'm making is, ultimately, there is no way to really balance...
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   How can I balance nursing school and working full-time?

   akulahawkRN replied to Nurse Beth's topic in Career Advice Column

   Going to school 10 hours/day, 5 days/week and trying to work full time is going to be basically impossible to balance. You're asking yourself to work and go to school 90 hours per week NOT including...
9. 

   LPN or RN school?

   akulahawkRN replied to Yadayada's topic in General Students

   I would say that it would greatly depend upon a lot of factors as to what paths I might recommend. One of those things is money. Generally speaking, if there's an LPN-BSN pathway, that implies...
10. 

    CA 1st Time RN Renewal Help Please!

    akulahawkRN replied to mind04's topic in General Nursing

    The wording is a bit odd but it just means that if you're fresh out of school, you don't need to do the 30 hours of CE for the first 2 years. If you've obtained your license elsewhere and subsequently...
11. 

    Stable Vtach

    akulahawkRN replied to Matthew89's topic in General Nursing

    VT isn't inherently stable. Your patient might be asymptomatic but that's going to be temporary. My only real concern in this is having only a 1/2 dose of an antiarrythmic onboard before...
12. 

    The Kamala Harris Thread

    akulahawkRN replied to Tweety's topic in U.S. Politics's Talk Politics

    Yeah, understandable. Biden isn't exactly the sharpest tool in the shed now. Kamala is younger, has more stamina, and she is a good speaker. She gave the Dems a fighting chance to retain the...
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    The Kamala Harris Thread

    akulahawkRN replied to Tweety's topic in U.S. Politics's Talk Politics

    What I find interesting is that in Kamala's pick of Walz over Shapiro is that by doing so, she is cementing herself as being, at the least, more left-leaning and not so much a moderate. Yes, I know...
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    Where does the public get the idea that nurses make a ton of money?

    akulahawkRN replied to edogs334's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    The public does get the idea that nurses do make a "lot of money" simply because nurses DO make a lot of money... but it's all relative to local markets. Nurses make more than most, less than many....
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    Can a RN legally supervise BSN's and MSN's?

    akulahawkRN replied to cosmicjustice's topic in General Nursing

    I'm going to pretty much echo the above. An RN, regardless of possession of an academic degree, is an RN. An RN may clinically supervise another RN unless that other RN possesses a higher level...