Christie RN2006

Christie RN2006

SICU, EMS, Home Health, School Nursing

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  1. Blood pressure cuff recommendations

    Christie RN2006 replied to keylime's topic in General Nursing

    I had to have a blood pressure cuff for my first few clinicals, but I haven't used it since then (except for on family). I would recommend not paying a whole lot for it since chances are unless you...

  2. What is better and why - Salary or hourly?

    Christie RN2006 replied to Cairo662's topic in General Nursing

    Exactly! Hourly is the only way to go. I can't tell you how many days I have had to stay over to chart or even to help out the next shift with an admit, procedure,

  3. Do You take your patients out for smoke breaks?

    Christie RN2006 replied to Meerkat's topic in General Nursing

    Well, in Ohio we have a no smoking ban now, so obviously no smoke breaks for our patients... Plus, I work in the ICU, so there is no way they are leaving their rooms for something

  4. ohio board of nursing/pearsonvue

    Christie RN2006 replied to chrissiejh's topic in Ohio Nursing

    I think it took me almost a month to get

  5. Telemetry?

    Christie RN2006 replied to chmiller1229's topic in General Nursing

    I guess you could say that usually stepdown is somewhere between ICU and tele. The majority of the patients that we transfer out of the ICU go to stepdown. Lately the acuity level of patients all...

  6. Need Advice!!

    Christie RN2006 replied to NS2005NY's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Ask her if it would be possible to stay with a preceptor for a little bit longer. One thing to keep in mind though is that you are never truely alone. A friend of mine told me that when I was feeling...

  7. Need advice on job offer please!!!

    Christie RN2006 replied to elemschoolnurse's topic in MICU, SICU

    I am a new grad RN that started in SICU :) I will admit that it is hard!! At the hospital I work at, all new grads in the ICU have to complete critical care classes, ACLS, and a cardiac arrhythmia...

  8. Telemetry?

    Christie RN2006 replied to chmiller1229's topic in General Nursing

    The hospital I work at has several non ICU tele units, 2 are stepdown, the rest are just tele units. So, in my hospital, there is a difference between tele, and

  9. trying to figure out my life.

    Christie RN2006 replied to chmiller1229's topic in General Nursing

    Unfortunately Ohio is not part of the compact

  10. Telemetry?

    Christie RN2006 replied to chmiller1229's topic in General Nursing

    The main purpouse of Tele is so that you can closely monitor a patients heart rhythm. Tele units tend to take care of patients that are sicker and need more monitoring than basic medical

  11. Acls

    Christie RN2006 replied to Christie RN2006's topic in General Nursing

    Thank you all for your advice!! I didn't think that the pretest on the cd was horrible, so hopefully I will be okay on the real test. I was really surprised how many of the answers I knew before I...

  12. Acls

    Christie RN2006 posted a topic in General Nursing

    Any helpful hints on how to study for ACLS? I am the most worried about the mega code, I have heard lots of horror stories about

  13. 10 things you say at work lay people could get arrested for

    Christie RN2006 replied to sharann's topic in Nursing Humor

    These are hillarious!! I never really thought about how the things I/we say sound to other

  14. Acls

    Christie RN2006 replied to Christie RN2006's topic in General Nursing

    Luckily I just took an EKG class, so those shouldn't be bad at all. Any helpful hints on how to remember things such as what meds to give when and how much to give and other things like that? Are...

  15. Highest BP you have ever seen on a pt

    Christie RN2006 replied to nckayaker's topic in Emergency

    Hm... no idea what my highest would be, somewhere in the 200s. Lowest though was 30 by dopplar and the pt was maxed on dopamine, levophed, and

  16. graveyard shift?

    Christie RN2006 replied to greenr06's topic in General Nursing

    LOL I know exactly how you feel!! Nothing like being up at 1:30am on your day

  17. graveyard shift?

    Christie RN2006 replied to greenr06's topic in General Nursing

    I just switched to night shift and I personally like it much better. The night shift people are more relaxed about certain things and they work very well together. My first night shift was horrible,...

  18. 75 Questions on NCLEX, pass or fail?

    Christie RN2006 replied to Lurksalot's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    So I feel dumb...lol I passed it on my first try, but I got every single question possible. Talk about stressfull!!! I cried that majority of my way home from taking the test because I was sure I had...

  19. Insulin drip?

    Christie RN2006 replied to scrmblr's topic in Emergency

    I had to start an insulin drip on my patient today... my hospital is now using algorithms for patients on insulin drips. You have to do blood sugars every hour until the patient is WNL for at least 4...

  20. ICU VS. the ER?

    Christie RN2006 replied to Anna5M's topic in Emergency

    At the hospital I work at CCU= coronary care unit. CVICU is where all of our open heart patients go. We also have a SICU (Surgical Intensive Care Unit) which is also occasionally called the SCU...

  21. Enraged (venting)

    Christie RN2006 replied to andhow5's topic in Emergency

    I went through a similar situation not too long ago except my patient wasn't drunk, he had no reason to assult us. Ours went crazy while we were in MRI and he ended up throwing things and hitting us,...

  22. New Grads - Rotten Shifts?

    Christie RN2006 replied to MililaniMom's topic in General Nursing

    I am a new grad and when I was hired I got my choice of either 3p-3a or 7a-7p. I decided to go with the 3p-3a since I get night pay for that whole time and I am a night owl, getting up and being to...

  23. Shaken Baby

    Christie RN2006 replied to royr's topic in General Nursing

    That is rough. I know of at least 2 kids right now that should have been taken out of their homes years ago, but childrens services didn't do anything about it. The kids are so screwed up now... the...

  24. Management measuring handsanitizer and soap usage

    Christie RN2006 replied to GardenDove's topic in General Nursing

    I understand, but why charge insurance companies 200+ dollars for a bag of NS?? when realistically it only cost the hospital a few dollars if that. Ok I am going to stop now before I get onto my...

  25. Shaken Baby

    Christie RN2006 replied to royr's topic in General Nursing

    I agree! You did everything you could, it was childrens services that screwed up. That whole system is a mess! They leave children in homes that are very dangerous. I mean I see their struggle...