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  1. Is it true on April 2016 NCLEX will change?

    I know they are adding a "Culture" section to the new
  2. Family Nurse Practitioner

    FNP's can work with healthy and well newborns. If you want to work with babies, sick babies, you are best off as a neonatal nurse practitioner. One of the best places to work with babies on a...
  3. Kaplan or UWorld?

    I agree. Uworld is so precise, but man it has taught me a ton. I love that they have so many SATA questions, it's good practice for NCLEX. I also have used ati throughout my program so I hope that'll...
  4. Is travel nursing right for me?

    I'm asking for examples with realistic and numerical figures if he had done it. Obviously that opportunity is preferable, to me at least. For some people, it would not be, because of constraints. It...
  5. Is travel nursing right for me?

    Have you done this personally? Could you give me an example, or more details on what you're saying? I wonder if it would be worth it to work 6 months in California, then take another 6 off, making...
  6. Interested in Becoming a L&D Nurse

    Get your CNA and get a job in a labor and delivery unit as a tech Ultimate way to determine if it's for you. You'll see what the RNs
  7. How was your first code blue? What role did you have?

    My 1st was in the middle of the night in the ICU. We were doing massive transfusion protocol on this guy and there was blood everywhere so everyone wore the yellow contact precaution gowns to spare...
  8. Hey CRNA's to be... I am just curious what type of study methods you use while in your anesthesia program? Do most students study in small groups within the cohort? Do you choose to study...
  9. Does your ICU provide sitters?

    My level 1 center makes the ICU tech the sitter, or if available, pulls a sitter from the float pool. We have sitters weekly. Shock trauma ICU, with lots of head injuries, needing lots of...
  10. ACLS should always be 2 days and in person!

    Same with my ER. 75 bed, level
  11. leaving

    I remember. Good to know it will always have a leg up. Thanks
  12. leaving

    How would it be financially
  13. Should I take the HUGE paycut to switch from ICU to a clinic?

    An $8/hr pay cut is equivalent to over 15K a year loss. Depends on how bad you really want this clinic job. I'd stay ICU and wait for a day
  14. Epinephrine IV or IM in this situation.

    D.) Epi IM Muscles have adequate vasculature for a quick absorption rate. It really depends on how quickly IV access could be established, though. If she has an existing IV, that's the answer, even...
  15. How do you explain the DNP?

    Are you saying that all NP programs must be DNP by 2025? I thought that was for nurse anesthesia
  16. How do you explain the DNP?

    You are implying that none of these services will be provided by Master's prepared APRN's, which is simply not
  17. Could use some advice on how to do this

    NP's do work on flight
  18. Got hit on by a patient and it wasn't a granny.

    Who wouldn't want a cute, beautiful guy to insert their
  19. Travel Nursing After School

    Neither. I'm going to find my own housing and pocket the stipend. Bike to work. I really just plan to do a lot of assignments in CA due to their high pay and staffing ratio laws, great working...
  20. Travel Nursing After School

    I'm in. I graduate with my RN in 4 weeks and plan to do this in a year or so. I'm on here everyday reading about it in the travel forum. I plan to retire early using this
  21. icu?

    I change the dressings, not the actual line. You will learn so much by working there. We have a PICC team insert ours as well. Just ask lots of
  22. icu?

    I have been an ICU tech going on 3 years now, and have a large scope of practice comparatively. I draw blood gasses and labs off arterial lines, remove art lines, change central line, picc, art line...
  23. University of Utah Critical Care Internship

    I was scheduled for a CCI interview this Wednesday but I withdrew because of an Intermountain job offer I
  24. Medical doctor of
  25. What thrills you/what terrifies you?

    Chest compressions, GSW's, maxed out vasopressors, and bad traumas all send me sky high. I love a crashing patient more than anything. Total junkie and slightly skewed. Especially love the teamwork...