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Hi all, I've been a member here for over three years and was very active for the first year or so, and have just been lurking since then. Just wanted to ask a question to those of you that are NPs (or are at least in school)- Which is better, picking...

Technically, if you look back far enough, its actaully a traditionally male profession. We have Florence Nightingale to thank for making it a "female profssion" in the 1800s... As far as politically corret goes, I much prefer "nurse" to anything else...

Obviously you are more vaulable in an emergency than the gen surgery or internal med teams, lol... Good thing you came though, and helped the patient out. We have a dedicated PICC team at my facility. They say we in CCU are the only ones who actually...

First of all, to the OP, "saline" doesn't count as a drip, lol. As far as my experience, it was an exercise in futility, trying to save a patient who over-dosed on Calcium channel blockers. Having witnessed it first hand, its an awful way to go, sinc...

I have considered corrections nursing a couple of times throughout my career. Four years in ICU and on a few occasions I have thought about wanting a change of pace. I haven't pulled the trigger yet, and may not ever do so, but it is nice to hear you...

I am hesitant to recommend anyone going into *any* healthcare field right now, until we figure our how the ACA/ObamaCare is going to pan out after full implementation...

A little more in-depth, but Welcome | Jeffrey S. Guy, MD, MSc, MMHC is a great resource. Check out the Critical Care Notes and the ICU rounds podcasts. Stuff is a little dated, but still great info...

Never had any personal experience in problems with bradycardia. Hypotension on the other hand, is real and has caused problems fairly often for me. We aim for RASS between -2 and -3 (just changed from MRS 3-4), and check Trigs q48 hours on everyone. ...

Or they are like me, and just love to run their mouth about unimportant stuff. Which now that I think of it, isn't technically part of report... On a serious note, I am def a type-A when it comes to report. I just use a blank peice of paper and only ...

I drive an hour each way, going from a small town and into the big city with a Level I trauma center to work in CICU. When you account for the commute, my "12-hour shifts" are actaully 14.5 hours each. Makes for a tough stretch doing three in a row.....

Or big boy nurses, like me... As far as celebrating after owning the NCLEX, I met up with my then-fiance to finish wedding plans Four and a half years later, I am celebrating that she hasn't kicke dme to the curb yet...

We always change our pumps in 1:2 just long enough to get a strip, then change it back. Probably 10 seconds max. Of course we also pause them briefly to ascultate heart/lungs, and make sure to allow a couple of minutes between these two exercises in ...

Looks like you've got some good replies, but as to the subject of being labeled- "Oh, you're a male nurse!?! They didn't tell me that! I don't want one of those. I need a "regular" nurse who knows what she is doing" That one really stung. Even after...

The best solution is to do what I did- move to an ICU where most of the patients are sedated and can't eat ice cream But in all seriousness, dealing with families is most of what makes our job so hard. In the 16 months or so that I have been a nurse...

I loved the $13 one I got from Target. It had digital seconds and hands, so it was great. It died last week...

The above solution should work just fine. Its setting up the problemt that's the key... On a side note, that's a totally different concentration of Heparin than we use. Ours is 20,000 units in 500mls, or 40units/ml...

Fourteen months, loving every single minute

Yes, its perfectly OK to ask for some time to consider the offer. I wouldn't ask for more than 3-4 days though, or you risk seeming like you're waiting for other opportunities and just want to have a fall-back option (which you are, but you don't rea...

Not familiar with CPNRE, but where I went to school , we took two different predictor tests for the NCLEX in the final semester. One at the beginning of the year gave me an 84% chance, and the one right before graduation gave me a 96% chance, and I p...

Be careful though, with FMLA- your job as a nurse at the hospital is protected, not neccessarily in your same unit... course if they are short-staffed, shouldn't be a problem I've been lucky with management, as I've had really good ones so far. I'll ...

Most anti-reflux meds are coated/not to be crushed. Because its protecting the stomach... As far as Fragmin goes: "Extended Treatment of Symptomatic Venous Thromboembolism in Patients with Cancer- In patients with cancer and symptomatic venous thromb...

During our inservice on orientation, I actaully managed to find a pelvic bone, in a 1L bag of NS that we were practicing on... :smackingf

Then be an EMT, not a nurse, lol... I actaully precepted a guy last sprign who was an EMT and was in nursign school. He hd it easy because he knew so much already. From that perspective, its good, but you also have to be able to seperate the differen...

Tele is my thing- If ya have any questions, lemme know. 1) I would say def hang onto (or borrow/buy if you got rid of) a basic interventions book. Yeah some skills are the same, but you typically do more in an acute hospital stay than you do in a SN...