gassrn

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1. pt report to ICU?

   gassrn replied to scrmblr's topic in Emergency

   I am an ICU nurse who really will just go with the flow. I tend to like to know the abc's of a pt and any extras I get is just icing on the cake. In my 3-4 yrs of experience in ICU I know that if the ED is getting slammed, it's about to come my way...

2. Floor nursing vs ICU nursing

   gassrn replied to faithrn2002's topic in MICU

   My perspective is a tad different, in that before I was a practing RN, I was a registered Respiratory Thearpist for aprox.6 yrs. I floated all over the hospital and saw the RN's in all area's. In my opinion, nurses who are working in direct patien...

3. What's your story? Why did you take up nursing?

   gassrn replied to Joe V's topic in General Nursing

   My story is similar to some people here, but yet still different. When I was a little girl we were farmer's in the mid-west (IL),I had lots of horses and all the other little creatures running around in the country. When the vet came out to tend to...

4. St. mary's in Knoxville

   gassrn replied to DhornRN's topic in Tennessee

   hi I moved to knoxville area in 2003 from dayton ohio. I had graduated nursing school in 01 starting pay for my experience was 17.45/hr almost $3/hr pay cut. Pay scales here are much lower than other places in the country. Suppose to be lower cost...

5. Why do unit nurses have bad reps?

   gassrn replied to SheriLynnRN's topic in MICU

   I have not really ever posted in this forum, but read it often.. The subject of ICU nurse vs FLOOR nurse seems to be a never ending conversation of opinions so I will give my experience. I originaliy was a respiratory therapist first before I becam...

6. Where do you nurse?

   gassrn replied to beckymcrn's topic in General Nursing

   Hi , I currently work at a level one trauma center in the Trauma ICU (almost 2 years), I also float some to the ED. Previous to this I worked in a Pulmonary step down unit(almost 3 years) (long term vent weaning, trach's, little med-surg ect.), an...

7. You Know You're a Nurse When...

   gassrn replied to Brownms46's topic in Humor

   You know you are a nurse when you are too cheap to buy your own KY and just take some home for your own personal use... Smile!!!!!!