april*rn

april*rn has 1 years experience and specializes in Oncology.

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1. Patient searches

   april*rn replied to smf0903's topic in General Nursing

   Yes in ER belongings are inventoried before admission- in front of patient or 2 staff if patient unconscious. This helps screen valuables, weapons or drugs. Any of the above are locked up with...

2. Is it safe going into RT?

   april*rn replied to navywife16's topic in General Nursing

   Every hospital I have worked at has RTs. Never heard of them being phased out. Plenty of people start a new career including nursing in their 40s and 50s. I graduated at 40 from nursing school and...

3. Fluid Resuscitation for Renal Failure/CHF

   april*rn replied to FazzDazzle's topic in Critical Care

   Those scenarios are frustrating. You are stuck between a rock and a hard place. For HF , I see small fluid blouses (250-500ml at a time) and sometimes cardiac drips for support. Renal failure-...

4. WGU - BSN online, legit?

   april*rn replied to Amiiiracle's topic in Western Governors University

   I recently finished the RN to BSN program. Affordable, legitimate, practical. You do have to be self motivated and able to figure out things on your own with this program though. I had a few questions...

5. Is anyone else's ICU more like LTAC?

   april*rn replied to ICUchick's topic in Critical Care

   Yes I see this also. Actually wrote a paper on futile care in ICU for school recently. Very frustrating, expensive and not always even what the patient might have wanted (family overrode polst or no...

6. Help! I've hurt my back....now what?

   april*rn replied to localgirl85's topic in General Nursing

   What about organ donor companies or blood donation organizations? The latter may involve mostly paperwork at a desk during blood drive. Pays less than acute care but less physically