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ok....kind of FREAKING out! NCLEX tomorrow @ 11am... looked @ some patho that i was not totally comfortable w/and some meds that i wanted a "refresher" on today (I know your not supposed to look @ NCLEX stuff the night before but I felt I should). W...

I work in a transplant PICU in Los Angeles. Our hospital has like 10 ICU's (one for liver transplants, heart/lung transplants, kidney transplants, etc) where there is a separate medical ICU and separate surgical ICU. The PICU however is a mix of all ...

benadryl.....benadryl....benadryl.....

i just finished my first week of nights and let me tell you the first one is the WORST! after that i came home @ 8am, took a benadryl and off to sleep until 5pm when it was time to get up and do it all over again. The second and third night was a pie...

Some parents/families are very difficult. You just have to not let them run you into the ground. It's hard to draw the line, but sometimes you just have to let them know that right now you need to do "x, y, and z" for their child and you will get to ...

new grad, $25.36/hr....however cost of living is higher than you may think.

i always try and use the needleless system if possible, but the needleless caps SUCK at drawing a med out of a vial....so then i just use the needle to draw it up, then recap it (one hand scoop), and then remove the needle, and attach a needleless

when i first graduated, these were the two areas i was debating between as well. ER: I did one shift in the ER and although I loved the variety and loved the somewhat "organized chaos", I felt like we were just like a holding area until they moved t...

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Maintenance IVF go through the buretrol. Any high risk or incompatible meds are put on a syringe pump (as well as all gtts). If the maintenance IVF is running at over 25cc/hr and the med you want to give is compatible, we drop it into the buretrol an...

You have to at least have a med running @ 2cc/hr to keep the line open, so if we have anything running @ less than 2 cc, you need something to "push it in". We have piggybacked the PCA to maintenance IVF on the Baxter pump, but like the poster before...

I was told to use Sprite/7-up b/c it is colorless.....but it all works the same!

one with a long enough orientation to make you feel comfortable being "on your own" i personally like the teaching hospital atmosphere, the nurses seem to more willing to teach new grads *and of course the hospital that meets YOUR needs ($/hr, benefi...

Miracle Charisma (two of these....another was spelled Kharisma) Trinity

SOMEONE who works @ a hospital near my house says there is a guy named orangejello (pronounced like o-ranj-ello) how funny

wow i can't believe he was ordering for IM injections.....ESPECIALLY if your child had IV access!!!!!!

I would say some nurses more than others feel more comfortable allowing parents to be present during procedures (which seems more practical if you have a 3-4 year old screaming when mom/dad leaves). For the most part though, I think our nurses are co...

We also have a family-centered PICU where the parents are free (and encouraged) to do as much care as they feel comfortable doing. Right now they are talking about whether or not to allow parents to be present if their child codes in the PICU. As of...

I PM'd you some info about UCLA's new grad program :)

From my experience as a nursing student..... 9 times out of 10 the nasty nurses who have issues with students work @ crappy facilities with awful ratios. They are severely overworked and don't have time to teach and I am sure they are stressed w/thei...

when i had to have an emergency appendectomy 2 years ago, the surgeon (not anesthesiologist) started talking to me about my job (I was a waitress @ the time at a pretty popular place)...he would tell me what his favorite burger was, etc..and before I...

I always treat all my patients like they are "VIP" patients We have an entire VIP floor (for all that can afford it). $1000/day gets you a private room on this floor, and for another $50/day you can eat whatever you want. Lobster, crab, filet, you ge...

I agree. I can't think of another job where you can make that kind of $$ straight out of school with your Associate's Degree, with that kind of job stability.

I thought the EXACT same way when I first started nursing school, and up until I started as an RN.... Here in CA I'm making between $25-29/hour depending on the weekend/night differential. I thought WOW I AM GOING TO BE RICH!!!! Especially when compa...

I didn't have ANY select all that apply :bowingpur Our teachers started doing that the last semester of nursing school, and I never got them right. I always ended up choosing an extra one, or not choosing one.