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Try this link and click on the how to guide for rapid response teams. http://www.ihi.org/IHI/Programs/Campaign/

And it never hurts to send a thank you note after the interview. :)

And it never hurts to send a thank you note after the interview. :)

I'm not an NP YET but I am also interested in this topic. I have a Palm 505 and I find it very useful. I plan on upgrading to another Palm before starting grad school this fall. I also use epocrates and I have a lot of reference ifo from the AACN. Most of the docs and CRNA's where I work have the Sony Clie. I have compared both and I really refer the Palm. I guess it's just what you like.

Ditto!

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Zee, I took and passed the CCRN exam this month. It was very hard!Have a very strong grasp of hemodynamics and you'll be fine.

rick, a paralytic is just that...no sedative or analgesic effects so you need the propofol and morphine. we use that combo a lot with open chests.

Any extra time is an extra $8/hr plus the time and a half.

The TPN gets the filter. You can run them together just plug the lipids in DISTAL to the filter!

No, I've been lucky so far... (knock on wood)

At my hospital I d/c JP's, hemovacs, chest tubes, pacer wires,a-lines,swans, introducers. Used to d/c epidurals at another hospital but the CRNA's do it here.

During my orientation as a new grad I was sent to EVERY code (and we had a lot of them). After a while I started doing the documentation at every one. It was great experience.When I got my ACLS 6 months later I felt more prepared although it didn't really "click" for a year or two.

At the hospital where I'm full time you cannot be cancelled unless you volunteer or are on OT. If there were no patients we could ALL still come in. Where I work PRN the staff can be cancelled anytime, sometimes twice in one week! I think if you are hired FT you should be able to get those hours every week.

i didn't want to graduate with minimal experience so i asked every nurse or doc if i could observe or do a procedure. i was the only one in my class that got to see open heart surgery because i asked!