Fire Bird

Was she on the monitor showing AF dysrhythmia? If she had rapid AF and she was post-op for mitral valve prosthetics, maybe the valve had dysfunction sending her into rapid AF. i dont understand why this pt needed that small amt of fluid over such a s...

In the ER, I could not do anything efficiently without each teammember including: CNAs, transporters, MRs, Room cleaners. Each person is vital to the team.

I had a 5 year old patient come by ambulance for a "cough" that had started the night before. Assessment and vital signs were normal. The patient did not cough once while in our ER. He was discharged pretty quickly. This is why insurance is so expens...

Same thing happened for me in the summer residency.. I waited FOREVER and finally got an acceptance letter. if you havn't been denied or waitlisted then theres a high probability that you got accepted.

I graduated in May and started a nurse residency program at a hospital in july, eventually leading to the ED. If you really want to start in the ED when you graduate, maybe try applying for residency programs in-state/out of state? or apply to local ...

I'd say get a cheaper littman. I used a cheap non-littman brand through nursing school. I couldn't really hear well with it, so learning breath sounds was a struggle until I got my littmann after i graduated.

So I thought the male nurses would find this this entertaining. I'm working as a young male nurse in a Pediatric ER. I have a three patient assignment: possible septic baby, CHI baby, and an 11yo nonaggressive psych patient who believes he is a mythi...

I'm a 22yo male and i started working in a pediatric ER a few months ago as an RN. It's a lot of fun and takes a lot of knowledge and experience! We get all types of patients: level 1 traumas, patients who walk in and code while walking through the m...

My advice... stay where you are and get some experience! Especially if you like where you are working already.

Hey I'm in the same boat! I started in a Peds ER not too long ago, and the one thing i was nervous about was IVs. Well, I watched my preceptor put in a bunch of IVs. Then, I started doing the IVs for all our teens (my first one was on a pregnant pt)....

Call lights don't make me run into rooms anymore because I have never had someone hit the call light for an emergency... and I work in an ER.. I carry a pocket book to write down times that my pumps are gonna go off so that I can stop them before the...

The quote "nurses eat their young" was not true at all for me after i graduated. The nurses I work with now are all very intelligent and teach the new nurses/student nurses at a pace that they can handle. Nursing is a great field to be in!

yay congrats hang in there

im pretty sure its a standard rate of pay for all nurse residents

depends on the area. i was a cna before becoming a nurse and i got to learn alot and got paid pretty decent. i dont think cnas should get paid close to what nurses get paid just because of the different level of critical thinking that is involved in ...

dont do drugs kids

I work in an ER.. i usually clean my shoes to get blood guts and vomit off them...

I did the residency. Everyone is talking about pay lol. I dont know if im allowed to say specifics on how much nurse residents make since this is a public website but i make about the same if not more than my other new grad friends who work at st tho...

Belmont has a great nursing program. Union has a high nclex pass rate. Both schools are good choices. Just dont choose lipscomb.

Close your eyes. Breathe in focusing only on the movement of your diaphragm. Hold it. Now breathe out slowly feeling the air escape your lungs. Open your eyes. Take a couple seconds to collect your thoughts then get back to your life's calling of hel...

I did the nurse residency program. It is a point based system. The points come from gpa, work experience, leadership, volunteer, interview. the highest points get hired. I had a 3.3 from a local school, worked at a hospital previously, president of m...

Lipscomb University has a very new nursing program that is showing very low NCLEX pass rates. The nursing faculty has no prior teaching experience, barely any nursing experience, and are arrogant. The leadership has never held a nursing leadership p...

Took the nclex yesterday... got the good pop up today. I guess we will see if this actually works when my results come in.

I just graduated... nclex in june. so glad its over haha..i have job lined up too. good luck with your last year

yep nursing school is tough.. hours and hours of work