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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!

http://www.pacep.org

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!

I have been pinched and scratched multiple times but the worst was when I was punched HARD in the chest by a 20-something pt. Staff came running in when they heard the SMACK! Hurt for a while.

P RN, we have no system like that in our hospital. Maybe if we had... I will bring up the possibilty of initiating that or something similar, thanks.

You're probably right, but regardless of who made the error it was the docs choice to inform the family. That's why I gave him credit. If it were my family member I would want to know everything. Thanks again to everyone for the replies.

The doctor DID inform the family about it...I was impressed with him for not covering it up.

Thank you for the supportive replies! It really helps. :)

It was about as bad as you can get. The pt was O and she was given B.

It makes me sick to my stomach just to type this. Due to an error by the lab pre-op I transfused 8 UNITS of the wrong PRBC's into a patient! She had MULTIPLE other problems post-op but this sure didn't help things. Although they say her reaction was mild I still feel awful.She is still alive but nobody is sure if she will make it.(cardiogenic shock,multi-organ failure)I don't know how I can trust the lab again. Thanks guys...just needed to get this off my chest.

I have spent the past 2 years on nights and I have finally found an open day shift position that I'm moving to next month. I don't think I would have gone into nursing if I had known how difficult it is to find a day job in a hospital.

1. RN 2. 5 years 3. FLA 4. could be better 5. yes 6. no 7. no 8. no 9. yes and no 10. yes 11. a lunch break about once a month! 12. going to days next month 13. was off for new years 14 &15. not sure

Staffing would have to be number one. No amount of money is worth the dangerously short staffed places I have worked.