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Personally, I would have at least checked for a pulse to ensure the respirations you described weren't true respirations and not agonal respirations as she died, but as previously stated, with such a long response time her prognosis was not good. W...

All I have to say is AMEN. oh and, if you're in my firehouse, it's my remote control!! hahaha

I think this depends on the program and where the rotations were held. I went to a 4 year program and was given a whole year of critical care classroom and clinical time that most local ASN programs do not get. I feel that after seeing new grads fr...

and Here it is, You have officially pissed of someone who was hit by a drunk driver while driving home from working in the ER one night. What happened? The guy had a "couple of beers", drove himself home, crossed the double yellow line, and hit me ...

So If you were born in 1982 such as I was, and I just graduated this past year from my 4 year BSN, which I entered right out of high schoool, did you go to college when you were 10 so you could complete your Masters in Education, then your CRNA, and...

I work at Suburban Hospital in Bethesda MD, and we occasionally have problems locating a monitor cable or something, but I have to say we are very well stocked. We have 8 pixus stations with supplies, plus our 2 med pixus stations. We also have it...

I disagree with this statement. Much of nursing is evidenced based practice. We utilize research for basing our standards of practice, and many many units have a process where you can change unit based standards of practice by proposing the change ...

Going through school I was called the "Murse" by the females in my class. It, to them, qualified the fact that I was the male nursing student, and became a long lasting joke, such as all the Focker comments after meet the parents came out. I'm not ...

I still can't believe that after all this, and what people have been telling you, that you are talking about your personal life, i.e. the car accident and your boyfriend, in this letter. It's unprofessional. You made a huge error which you could lo...

Ok, i just have to point this out, I never once threw out credentials, or letters behind my name... you just said "People need to get over themselves...I don't care what abbreviations you have behind your name" yet you are the one who listed this: "...

thank you 11, I am definately not condoning any RN taking an ACLS course and being able to call themselves a paramedic. I do, however, feel that it's possible for experienced critical care RN's to become great medics through an abridged paramedic cou...

Treat the patient, not the monitor...Was there a pulse? If not, then i would assume the proper procedures were followed. If all that was being treated was the monitor, then shame on all practitioners involved. To answer your question however, I have...

Now I'm going to throw something out there that might stir the pot a little..but... At my university, the only male nursing instructors we had were gay. I have no issues with people's choice of sexual orientation; however I feel that with homosexual...

why waste your time bagging if the air is going into the lungs and not being circulated? your rationale makes no sense.

i was a little pissed off about the comment made "she's just the nurse, maybe she doesn't know" in relation to the patient seeing the nurse smile and not the doctor, and how the lack of a smile related to her condition. And personally i think the wh...

Had a patient a couple weeks ago who had fallen at home and of course couldn't get up, laid in his own urine and stool for a few days, dehydrated as hell, I can't remember his labs but his temp when he came in was 84.0 F rectally. He bought himself...

Washington DC area, the ICU at the hospital where I work is short 40% of their nursing staff quota....

I agree. I feel that in any critical care setting you should have the ability to get assistance from other nurses with your patients, no matter how experienced you are. I love the ER I work in because it is such a team approach to everyone's patien...

30 ambulances....understaffed....ccu, icu, and med/surg full....no breaks...chemical spill accross the street, decon patients... so much fun...

what part of MD are you from?

It's nice to see some high school seniors with some pep and who know what they want to do. I don't know much about george mason, but I know JMU has a good reputation for their nursing program. I applied there (i'm from maryland) and didn't get in, ...

I've had patients coming in as trauma codes from accidents involving them on motorcycles... EMS and ER people don't call them donorcycles for nothing, the previous post stating that there would be a lot less organ donors if there weren't any motorcyc...

Coumadin was one of the meds you listed as not giving, which PROBABLY won't have any ill effect, but there is potential for ill effect if one of the other people you work with made the same mistake and the patient goes without his coumadin for a whil...

Becoming an EMT regularly only takes a couple months, if not only one month depending on the class shedule. It is the becoming a paramedic in a couple months that some people might not like the idea of. I personally feel that if an RN has years of ...

I think it would have helped if you had taken the drug test...and if that didn't work, then I guess you should have been EXTRA careful to not get those medication errors during your probation period. Yes, mistakes happen, but apparently your rate of...