Vana21 ADN, BSN, RN

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 f...

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 un...

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 dischargin...

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,...

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 ...

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. Cann...

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 rathe...

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 rem...

"There's no heartbeat...ANNIE ANNIE ARE YOU OK"

"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

It's pretty funny about a lice epidemic.

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I have a reoccuring dream where I am sleeping in a patients bed (without a patient in it) and I wake up (at this point i have my eyes open and looking around my own room but still mostly asleep) and I get bad anxiety and I think "oh no I fell asleep ...

A critical care patient who weighs 80 kg has an order for 10 MCG/KG/MIN of dobutamine to be administered IV and regulated by an electronic pump. The supply of dobutamine is 500 MG in 250 mL OF D5W. I need Help, Please... 10mcg x 80kg = 800 mcg/min...

Back in the old days, there were no pumps and nurses had to eyeball everything. It's not impossible to do, just inconvenient I think, but I also don't know jack about OR. What specifically was the med? Some are meant to be hung to gravity

Not all programs are like that I'm in the Memorial Hermann residency program in Texas and we all get paid $26.50 no matter what unit. Medsurg gets 3 months orientation and a year of classes, ICU/Critical care gets 6 months, and OR has a year orientat...

The thing about doing it this way (correct me if im wrong) is they will have 10 mg diluted in 10 ml. So even though they squirt out 2ml, there is no way of knowing there is 2 mg of medication in that 2 ml. I can see where that thought originates from...

I'm not sure if im answering correctly based on your situation but it sounds like you might be referring to an IV push? So for example, if you have 1 mg of morphine ordered and the vial is 1mg/ml. What I do is take a flush thats 10 ml, squirt out how...

If the patient had come without the proper equipment and took a turn for the worse, I think we all know your admin wouldn't have had your back. You did the right thing