akulahawkRN ASN, RN, EMT-P

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    Charge Nurses Keep Stalling, What Can I Do?

    akulahawkRN replied to Jojen9077's topic in General Nursing

    I see this at my own hospital. The floor managers or charge nurses sometimes drag their feet in getting admissions. Sometimes it really is them looking for appropriate inpatient orders and looking for...
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    Sacramento Area Dignity New Grad October 2025

    akulahawkRN replied to coyote12's topic in Nurse Residency Programs

    I know of an internal candidate (not me) who was offered a position, last week, in a Sacramento area RN residency program. I will not say who this is nor the position offered to protect anonymity, but...
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    Medical Emergencies in Public

    akulahawkRN replied to nurse4321's topic in General Nursing

    Yes, it IS a different (and litigious) world out there than it used to be (or at least than we remember). I wouldn't say a health professional shouldn't stop and render aid, more that a health...
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    Medical Emergencies in Public

    akulahawkRN replied to nurse4321's topic in General Nursing

    The vast majority of Registered Nurses that are either fresh out of school OR have just completed a new hire preceptorship do NOT know much more about First Aid measures than the lay person. Yes, they...
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    CCU vs ER

    akulahawkRN replied to gratefultobeanurse16's topic in General Nursing

    I'm pretty much like FiremedicMike. I'm way too ADD for basically any ICU on a long-term basis. I also enjoy stabilizing the really sick patients. They can keep my attention for a while. 😉 Once...
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    Respirator Fit Testing - Non Detection of Bitrix Solution

    akulahawkRN replied to doc8406's topic in Occupational Health

    Sometimes the problem is that the solution is just old/bad. I definitely do taste the Bitrex but last year I ran into an issue where I could not. Neither could the tester when I stated I was unable to...
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    President Biden thread

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

    Given that androgen deprivation therapy is a 1st line treatment for aggressive metastatic prostate CA, this does come with a few potential side effects... the below is from:...
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    President Biden thread

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

    I will say only this: for someone as public as POTUS, I believe a PUBLIC "clean bill of health" about as far as I can throw it. It would not surprise me in the least if it later becomes known that Joe...
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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...
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    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...
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    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...
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    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...
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    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...
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    The Trump Thread

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

    While his injury may have been caused by debris, I haven't yet seen evidence of the teleprompter to Trump's right being shattered. It well could have been, but had it been shattered, I would further...
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    The Trump Thread

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

    Ideally scientists use the scientific process, but they can very much be swayed by politics and/or public opinion to shape their output. They're only human. However, Congress does delegate certain...