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  1. Here's my bare minimum: My own nursing brain Multiple pens (do not be that nurse that comes in clueless they need a pen and uses the surgical marker instead) Marker/Highlighter Trauma shears (2)...
  2. Kaiser anesthesia (kpsan) 2018

    What's the LOL about that? It's the doctoral study of nurse anesthesia. The difference is that DOctoral study in nursing practice can also be applied to FNP. Hopefully, you are aware of the...
  3. Kaiser anesthesia (kpsan) 2018

    Just applied. Really excited about their DNAP program. December can't come soon
  4. Jobs in a hospital setting without a degree

    EKG tech Phlebotomist Transport Nursing Assistant Unit secretary Most require additional training, some longer than
  5. Air in IV lines/syringes

    If it's a tiny bubble or two, there's really nothing to be concern about. However, I've seen a patient code due to air in the cordis. The patient is one of our sickest patient in the unit. A swan ganz...
  6. NCLEX ensures you are safe. To be safe while taking care of the weak and vulnerable. That's why it is there. You mentioned CGFNS, I assume you are a foreign graduate. Maybe the problem is not the...
  7. I have to disagree. There are nurses with some attitude, we have to as nurses. Don't we? We have to be able to stand up for our patients. But nursing is far from being catty and horrible. I'm biased,...
  8. Transition into Trauma Stepdown

    TNCC is mostly helpful for ER nurses. I recommend taking trauma care after resus (TCAR). TNCC and ATCN can also he
  9. Futile ressusitation

    Working in trauma/surgical ICU, I've seen people recover. Just the past weekend, the patient came in with a stab wound to the neck that severed the carotid artery. The doctors told the family not to...
  10. Favorite nursing job or specialty

    Since I am a trauma/surgical ICU nurse, I am biased to my unit. The best part about working in trauma is that I'm able to see my patients survive and live. I had one patient, a female in her twentys...
  11. New Grad RN Salary Range

    Do you have prior experience? Are you a straight RN-MSN person? Nursing isn't like medicine or law or any other profession where the value of the school you came from is as valuable as the person. It...
  12. Nursing Limbo.....

    I say go apply. Many new grad programs will recruit you pending a nursing license. So I suggest go start with new grad
  13. You can sign it as late entry. Just be prepared to answer any questions. When I was a LVN, I was taking care of a peds patient witha metabolic disorder. I have given a PRN medication and did not have...
  14. I don't care whether the patient has 30 seconds or 30 years to live, we always ensure that we do things the right way. Flushing a port takes very little effort to ensure that we have it when the...
  15. You know the shift is gonna be a hot mess when ...

    I know my shift will be a hot mess when... - trauma patient with clamshell thoracotomy, open abdomen, multiple drips, level 1 rapid infuser and crrt at the bedside - alcohol/substance withdrawal...
  16. Someone who may be a very good clinical nurse does not always equate to being a good preceptor. You have to tell this to your manager. Be objective and do not make this about the criticisms she told...
  17. I think it'll be worth to fight it. I personally know someone who had two theft charges that applied to the boards and fought to sit for the NCLEX and succeeded. She was honest. She didn't get a...
  18. I don't think it is. I usually say at that to my patient/patient's family in the beginning. I'll tell them that I'll be outside their room, and if they need something and I'm not there, I could be in...
  19. Stethoscope tracker

    [ATTACH=CONFIG]24500[/ATTACH] Not mine but if you really want a tracker on your stethoscope then a tile tracker might be the best
  20. Step down ratios

    In accordance to California nursing staffing ratio, step down unit ratio is 1:3 California RN Staffing Ratio
  21. Orders from hell...

    " Ok to use ET
  22. New practice states not to inflate the balloon. It depends on your facility's
  23. Can you become a PACU nurse w/o experience

    Most PACU nurses have ICU background. But it depends on the hospital you're
  24. CA ICU staffing guidelines

    In California, ICU RNs are 2:1 or 1:1. If you the other person you are working with have critical care background/training, regardless of where they working right now then it should be okay. Like you...
  25. Is it a rule? I certainly hope not. In my first year, I cried and was stressed out but it was because I wasn't where I wanted to be. The moment I moved to ICU, I felt my worth and my part in the whole...