MedicFireRN

MedicFireRN has 7 years experience and specializes in Emergency Department, ICU.

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1. Starting Excelsior's MSN - Education

   MedicFireRN replied to Lunah's topic in Excelsior College

   DNTcode- I am in the RN to MSN with a focus in Informatics. I have completed the BSN portion, so I have 6 classes left to finish for the MSN portion. I have taken 3 to 4 courses per semester while...

2. Grad schools accept ec?

   MedicFireRN replied to Kelly_bean's topic in Excelsior College

   Yes, this is true for a few particular schools, Tx Wesleyan being one of them. I have been casually looking into CRNA programs as an option for the future; I'm an EC ADN grad, currently in the BSN...

3. Hello!

   MedicFireRN replied to h3summers's topic in Excelsior College

   I too entered the program as a medic. I graduated in the fall of 2015. I worked in the ED as a nurse until March of this year when I switched to ICU. I am currently doing one of EC's RN to MSN...

4. Got my reschedule date

   MedicFireRN replied to emtpbill's topic in Excelsior College

   Good luck, Bill! I have enjoyed reading your progress on here; though I haven't been a very active poster in recent years

5. Community Health Nursing - NUR 448

   MedicFireRN replied to JDRN16's topic in Excelsior College

   I hear you, CHN was definitely a time sucker. I too worked full time and took another course while taking CHN, so it is doable (albeit exhausting). Have you picked a place for your clinical hours?...

6. CEN 2016!

   MedicFireRN replied to Lev's topic in Emergency

   I am taking the CEN in 10 days!

7. Excelsior LPN RN Florida

   MedicFireRN replied to MsFeli's topic in Excelsior College

   I was wondering if anyone has completed Excelsior's LPN to RN program? yes, many have. I am one of these many :) How was it? Did you do the traditional classes or the self study ones? It is nursing...

8. Need the real truth. Are all EDs like this?

   MedicFireRN replied to JR81's topic in Emergency

   It's very typical. Our hospital is 1:4 but our sister hospitals are 1:5 in the ED. I worked at one hospital where the ratio was 1:3 for all patients except ESI 1's-2's which were 1:1 or 1:2, but the...

9. Excelsior MSN

   MedicFireRN replied to Fairy1's topic in Excelsior College

   Community has a clinical component required now; It's really only observation in a public health setting, but the requirement is something like 40 hours. Just keep that in mind if you're trying...

10. Paramedic and nurse?

    MedicFireRN replied to Sirena_615's topic in Emergency

    this hits the nail on the head. Also both, recently stopped working as a medic although I still am one. I love both, but nursing pays way better and has better advancement opportunities, plus more...

11. What's your triage protocol?

    MedicFireRN replied to MedicFireRN's topic in Emergency

    Yeah, if we had more techs I could see it being more practical; but we often only have 1 tech; on a good day we have 2 techs for the entire ED from

12. What's your triage protocol?

    MedicFireRN replied to MedicFireRN's topic in Emergency

    Well it's been a miserable few weeks with no sign of

13. What's your triage protocol?

    MedicFireRN posted a topic in Emergency

    Hey everybody! I'm curious, how does triage work in your department with your patients that walk in to be seen (so excluding ambulances)? My hospital is doing a new thing where the triage nurse out...

14. RN To BSN :)

    MedicFireRN replied to MedicFireRN's topic in Excelsior College

    I plan on switching to the RN to MSN track in August when the new catalog goes into effect; I have been taking classes with that aim since enrolling in January :) So when you're done I hope I will be...

15. Order of preference for sedation?

    MedicFireRN replied to rhkenji's topic in Emergency

    One of the big things to consider here is your facility's policies on titration. IMO, because of how they want us to titrate versed vs. how we can titrate propofol, I usually get much better sedation...