millkay

millkay

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  1. interview weakness & strength

    millkay replied to abstract30's topic in General Nursing

    Some weaknesses may include ill preparation, inappropriate dress, arriving late, and verbal negativity regarding your current or past employers. Even if the interview is stressful or confrontational,...

  2. students, is our future in jeopardy?

    millkay replied to dfk's topic in Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist

    I always thought you had to be a mature and intelligent adult to make it into med school. That's what I get for thinking!!! these idiots bring shame to the whole lot of

  3. Sleeping on the job..acceptable or not?

    millkay replied to travelnurse63's topic in General Nursing

    Not to keep the antagonizing going on and on and on, but I am with those who believe it is wrong to sleep at work. I'm a night-shifter, too. That having been said, I once took a phenergan before...

  4. chart auditing

    millkay replied to jonear2's topic in General Nursing

    I to you Dorimar for finding a way to get out of doing those audits. I also worked in a unit where we were required to do audits, one per month. We filled out a sheet on things that we found that...

  5. Diluting IVP meds

    millkay replied to maolin's topic in MICU, SICU

    After 4 years in ICU I still dilute some meds for IVP, especially Ativan, which is incredibly hard to manage while in a oily, pasty state. 5ml doesn't make that great of a fluid volume issue with most...

  6. Wouldn't you consider this stealing???

    millkay replied to LoriAlabamaRN's topic in General Nursing

    This is hilarious! :cheers: I may just use it at home, at work, in my car.....where not only co-workers can walk off with things, but so do my kids and husband. But that's another

  7. ICU Skills checklist as part of my resume?

    millkay replied to SteveNNP's topic in Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist

    While we've strayed to the subject, anything the school recommends that you do, you need to do. Otherwise you tell them that your are not willing to do whatever it takes to get into the program. Last...

  8. Agency Experience?

    millkay replied to 2ndChance's topic in Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist

    I am currently working agency in ICU areas only, and making application to NA schools. At one interview I had last year, I got a little flustered (hopefully not noticeably so) because I had worked in...

  9. GRE Dilemma

    millkay replied to BEN_RN12's topic in Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist

    I'm not sure how you studied, but the first time I took the GRE, I got the Princeton Review book, which had tips on how to take the test, how to look at and read the questions, and had practice forms...

  10. Second time around

    millkay posted a topic in Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist

    Maybe I'm the only one, or the only one dumb enough to post, but I interviewed at 3 schools this past year after having applied to 4 and didn't get accepted to any of them. So I'm a...

  11. Second time around

    millkay replied to millkay's topic in Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist

    Thanks for the encouragement. You can bet that I'll keep on trying until someone lets me in. This is what I want to do with my life and I'll make sure the schools know I won't give

  12. I got fired!

    millkay replied to zoeintx's topic in General Nursing

    I worked as charge nurse in an ICU and was written up on several occasions 1) for asking the aide to help with a bath, 2) for asking the unit clerk if she would stock syringes, and 3) finally for...

  13. Who's applied or is planning to apply this summer?

    millkay replied to piper_for_hire's topic in Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist

    I'm applying (again) to Newman University and Texas Wesleyan. I'll be sending apps by the end of this week, got the references and other things done. The deadlines aren't until December, but last...

  14. Is there still a chance?

    millkay replied to millkay's topic in Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist

    No, in the end I didn't get in. Getting ready to apply again. Tex Wes makes it faily easy to do. :) I've got one more year of ICU experience and 100+ more CEU's. Maybe this will be my

  15. Is there still a chance?

    millkay posted a topic in Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist

    I interviewed at TX Wesleyan back in November. They told me after the interview that I stand a good chance of getting into the program, but I have not heard anything else, except that others got in...

  16. Working for Via Christi?

    millkay posted a topic in General Nursing

    I am an ICU nurse living in northern Oklahoma, interested in working at Via Christi or Wesley. Can anyone tell me about working for these two entities? What's good about them, that's bad about them?...

  17. To thump or not to thump....

    millkay replied to 123456yy's topic in MICU, SICU

    In the days before ICD's and EP labs people got thumped all the time. There have been several cases of patients in my hometown that, from what older nurses have told me, would not have lived their...

  18. Stupid things I did when I was a New Grad

    millkay replied to my2sons's topic in MICU, SICU

    I was still on orientation when we had a patient's heart stop. My preceptor asked the charge nurse to call a code and went to get the cart. I jumped upon this patient, who by the way was on a fluffy...

  19. How many schools did you apply to?

    millkay replied to malenurse2001's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    Sounds like almost everyone that posted has had very good luck. I applied to four schools, interviewed at three of them, didn't get accepted to any of them. This next year going to apply at four other...

  20. Giving baths on CCU

    millkay replied to NurseEcho's topic in CCU, Coronary, Cardiac

    I too have had frustrations re: night baths. I think it's rampant at a lot of hospitals. I have gone to work sometimes and found out that a patient has not had a bath at all during this admission,...

  21. CRNA so why not CRNS? Certified Register Nurse Surgeon? (devil's advocate)

    millkay replied to sunnyjohn's topic in General Nursing

    There are PA's that assist with surgeries, mostly assisting and finishing up with closing. Does anyone know if any advanced practice nurses do this? Would that be similar to what you are asking....

  22. TWU letters

    millkay posted a topic in Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist

    I'm a nervous wreck, well not really, but TWU is mailing out letters tomorrow to those who weren't fortunate to get early acceptance. I feel that I have a decent chance of getting in. Not the...

  23. TWU letters

    millkay replied to millkay's topic in Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist

    :balloons: Congrats!!!:balloons: ...and best of luck to

  24. Working for Via Christi?

    millkay replied to millkay's topic in General Nursing

    Pretty good. Being the work-a-holic that I am, I'm going to work at Wesley's MICU for now and then apply for a part-time at the Neuro or Sugrical ICU at Via Christi in a month or

  25. New to Travel Nursing

    millkay replied to rnnaomibsn's topic in Travel

    I am also a travel nurse and have been struggling with the same question. I work for two agencies, Aureus Medical and Resolve Staffing which are basically the same. They pay about the same, have...