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I've been interviewing since April for a school position in a district and have gone on about 8 interviews ranging from elementary to high school. Only 3 have responded back, and only 1 said their reasoning was lack of experience. I've been a nurse for 3 years and was a tele tech for 4 previously, all at the same hospital. My nursing was a general adult ICU for 6 months for training and the rest has been cath lab. I don't have pedi experience which I know is what is hurting me the most. I'm at a loss at what to do and if I should even keep trying. Any tips to make myself seem more valuable?

Cath lab is very high stress with a lot of on call. The on call cases are pretty emergent and even higher stress. You can come in to work at 0700, stay until 9pm, get called in at midnight, be back home at 0300, get called back in at 0500 and stay until 7pm again. It is very rewarding and good money, but if you are looking for less stress it is not a good place to go for that.

you can see if they will allow you to go to the holding pre/post area for the pregnancy term

I would assume it would be like a cath lab recovery area which would include pulling sheaths, watching groin sites for bleeding or retroperitoneal bleeding, taking down and off TR bands and doing EKGS and post labs with education and maybe discharging outpatients. It can be considered critical care and would be a good first job for a new grad

I work in a small cath lab that only runs 2 rooms, and we also prep and recover our patients. We are nurse dominant. My sister hospital I go to has about 7 rooms and a separate holding/recovery area. My hospital doesn't do all those fancy procedures, we stick to international radiology and cardiac caths. So a typical day would be to get there and look up my patients on the schedule. If im circulating or monitoring, I will get my patient from holding and bring them to the procedure room and get them hooked up to our monitor. I make sure the sterile table and tech have everything they need. We help drape the patient with the sterile drape. I get the manifold connected to the art line system connected. Then we wait for the doc. When they get there we time out and start the procedure. We give sedation and monitor the patient, not anesthesia. As a circulator, you will be pushing meds, grabbing wires, catheters, and other supplies, monitoring the patient, making sure the contrast bottle doesn't run out, reminding the patient to stop moving their arms or legs. After the procedure we make sure certain medications are given like plavix if needed. We get the pt back on the bed and move them out, and get the next one in. The worst part about cath lab is the call, and it is also the best part. I take about 4-5 days of call a week, and I get called in sometimes never in a week, sometimes 3 in a day. There is no pattern. You get called in at 3am and are there with a tech and maybe another nurse or tech. The patient might be ok, or they might have just coded 4 times. They might code again on the table.

Heparin in that small dose to an adult generally won't do a whole lot. In cath lab for a procedure, we regularly give 2 to 3 times that amount. The half life if Heparin is about 30 minutes. No real harm done thankfully for you, but the potential was there. Everyone makes mistakes and I bet from now on you will remember this event and use it for the best

I got pulled over for going 70 in a 65 (people were passing me) on the highway. I was leaving work and had scrubs on, have a sticker on my car that says Cath Lab call team, and a stethoscope hanging from my mirror. I got a ticket. I would have rather had the special treatment

I'm deciding on my second elective and I am stuck between choosing NURS 4300 Cooperative Nursing Work Experience II or NURS 3352 Legacy of the Family. I work in Cath Lab so my hours vary and I'm trying to get a class less focused on long papers. Cannot find a syllabus online of either class to help me decide. Which is easier?

I was deadset on being in ER and eventually doing Life Flight I ended up in Cath Lab and I enjoy it probably more then I would have enjoyed ER

I'm considered morbidly obese according to BMI I can also run 3 miles without stopping. I'm rarely sick, my blood work is fine. It's subjective

oh heck no. If I find someone touching anything I will warn them. If they do it again I will have security escort them out to never return.

certain leads show different parts of the heart so left circumflex artery (LCx) blockage shows in lead I, aVL, V5 and V6 Right coronary (RCA) or LCx shows in leads II, III left anterior descending blockage shows in leads V1-V4 and so on. I don't remember that coming up in nclex, the most they ask is that you just recognize a rhythm and know if its lethal and what to do about it.

"an empty clean room" oooo spooky

Ask them to tell you the name of the patient, their address, and other information like that When they can't, then you say "So what is the problem?"

Does not work. My class tested it in January and we had fail/good popup, fail/bad popup, pass/good popup, and me personally had pass/bad popup