MikeyBSN

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  1. Can ANP work in ICU

    MikeyBSN replied to meghanq21's topic in General Nursing

    Do you have your RN

  2. New Grad Question: Grades vs Medical Experience

    MikeyBSN replied to redraider1977's topic in General Nursing

    Ideally you should have both. I disagree with some of the above posts. If I had someone with great grades and some experience I would take them over a person with poorer grades but a great deal of...

  3. Would you go to the ER for this?

    MikeyBSN replied to greenfiremajick's topic in General Nursing

    Being that plenty of people go to the ED for dinner and a work note, I would no longer even feel the slightest bit embarrassed about going to the ER for any actual complaint, as trivial as it may

  4. A Letter to Hollywood: Nurses Are Not Handmaidens

    MikeyBSN replied to General E. Speaking, RN's topic in General Nursing

    We nurses have been working to improve our image in the media for years, with some success (ie. ER). I don't watch Greys Anatomy because it sucks, so I can't speak for it. However, I have seen and...

  5. Healthcare Summit

    MikeyBSN posted a topic in General Nursing

    Congress is debating the health care bill possibilities. Of course, the first thing they did is take the only viable option, the public option, off the table. I'm not extremely optimistic that...

  6. How Do You Feel About Hospital Volunteers?

    MikeyBSN replied to Justanotherday's topic in General Nursing

    We have volunteers in our ED. Unfortunately, liability issues prevent them from doing many things. They can't even transport a person in a wheelchair or walk them down to x-ray. There are some...

  7. How can nurses go green?

    MikeyBSN replied to cord88's topic in General Nursing

    I've submitted a proposal to install solar panels for the defibrillator and hook the monitors up to a wind power device that juts out into the hallway. Then a bunch of mean nurses shot down my idea...

  8. Why do i hear that nurses are mean???

    MikeyBSN replied to star1287's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I think some of it is misunderstanding, sometimes nurses have to be "mean" to do what is best for the patients. Plus, nursing is a very stressful job and sometimes it brings out Hide. That being...

  9. Do You Remember Your Patient's Name?

    MikeyBSN replied to CaLLaCoDe's topic in General Nursing

    I remember all my patient's names. For example, the other day I have "fall off bike guy", "bed four", "vomiting kid" and "migraine

  10. Unemployed Associates and Bachelors RNs

    MikeyBSN replied to Info(RN)matics's topic in General Nursing

    Perhaps a better question is why people are watching a report from Fox

  11. Triplet PVCs or "3 Beat Run of V Tach?"

    MikeyBSN replied to na74te's topic in General Nursing

    Trigeminy is when you have one pvc for every 2 normal beats. From what I've heard from attendings and cardiologists, more than 2 in a row is considered a "run" of

  12. Would You Go To Haiti To Help?????

    MikeyBSN replied to Misslady113's topic in General Nursing

    I suppose you can, I think they're moving these to the volunteer forum. However, I'm not sure why you would want to go. Haiti is dangerous, plus, I hate to say it but by the time you get there the...

  13. EU Health Committee Chair calls Swine Flu Handling a "Scandal"

    MikeyBSN posted a topic in Disaster Preparation

    "Wolfgang Wodarg, Germany - "We have had a mild flu - and a false pandemic," says Wolfgang Wodarg, the chair of the Health Committee in The European Council. The German parliamentarian is also an...

  14. If a Hospital is Magnet Hospital

    MikeyBSN replied to HappyMeNow's topic in General Nursing

    No, it means your hospital gave a lot of money to the Magnet

  15. POC Testing in the ED

    MikeyBSN replied to brysmit's topic in Emergency

    We're allowed to do POC testing in the ED, but I wish were weren't. Although some amount of POC testing is useful, I think that it is needlessly ordered. It takes me a good 10-15 minutes to do a POC...

  16. JAMA: Antidepressants don't work for most people

    MikeyBSN posted a topic in General Nursing

    i apologize if this has been posted already, but i found it very interesting. personally, i've never believed that anti-depressants work very well for depression. i do think that paxil works for...

  17. JAMA: Antidepressants don't work for most people

    MikeyBSN replied to MikeyBSN's topic in General Nursing

    The difference is that many of those work well by themselves. Both Januvia and Metformin are clinically proven to lower blood glucose levels, they just might not lower it enough in certain patients....

  18. Why I Keep Coming Back

    MikeyBSN replied to rwright15's topic in Emergency

    Ped traumas are tough. I remember one of the first major traumas I had as an RN was an MVC with 2 young kids (5 and 7). Both of them had traumatic brain injury. The little boy herniated and...

  19. Let me hear your raves

    MikeyBSN replied to Kyla.ann's topic in General Nursing

    Yeah but you learn something new every day, whether you go to work or

  20. 24 Things ER Nurses Know All Too Well

    MikeyBSN replied to RN_in_SC's topic in Emergency

    It's possible that some of them stopped coming to the ED because doing so would have required them to remove a part of the wall to get them out of their

  21. Let me hear your raves

    MikeyBSN replied to Kyla.ann's topic in General Nursing

    I'm more of a "rant"

  22. Best days/times to volunteer in ER for pre-nursing student

    MikeyBSN replied to frnzy's topic in Emergency

    It depends on the facility, you should ask around. Monday and Tuesday are our busiest days by far. It's funny because all the trauma residents sign up for the weekends because they think they will...

  23. Career suicide?

    MikeyBSN replied to angelkerri's topic in Nursing Career

    I don't understand why so many new grads think that "the normal rules don't apply to us." Why would you think that? Despite what your fellow new grads who are as clueless as you will tell you, yes,...

  24. Does where I go to school dictate where I find a job?

    MikeyBSN replied to Xtina2010's topic in Nursing Career

    First of all, the East Coast is clearly better than the West, so I'm not sure why you would want to go back. To answer your question, the RN degree, luckily, is not a "snob" degree. Most people...

  25. Solutions for Belligerent Patients

    MikeyBSN posted a topic in Emergency

    This is not an uncommon topic in the world of ED nursing, but I think it's an important one. I was curious as to how other nurses and facilities deal with the issue. I had another extreme reminder...