traumaRUs MSN, APRN

Nephrology, Cardiology, ER, ICU

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    Suspected drug use in physician

    traumaRUs replied to allegra78's topic in General Nursing

    Use the chain of
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    Transitioning from nursing to CRNA

    traumaRUs replied to ericlangs's topic in Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist

    Moved to SRNA
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    St. Francis college nursing - help !

    traumaRUs replied to shin20's topic in School, College Programs

    Moved to Nursing schools, colleges and universities. It would help if you could give a location of this college.
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    CNA before Accelerated BSN Program

    traumaRUs replied to nerdyy.nurse's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    Moved to prenursing
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    process to work in California

    traumaRUs replied to June 24's topic in Nurse Registration

    Moved to Nurse
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    IPN issues- 2015

    traumaRUs replied to NurseEmRN's topic in Nurses Recovery

    Just a note: per our terms of service, we do not allow naming names of individuals. Thanks very
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    Nursing Student Peers Who Want to Mooch

    traumaRUs replied to katiejames7878's topic in General Students

    Moved to General Nursing
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    Attention NICU Nurses! What advice do you have for a new Grad RN?

    traumaRUs replied to journey2success's topic in NICU, Neonatal

    Moved to the NICU
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    Nurses notes query

    traumaRUs replied to Perezm's topic in General Nursing

    Moved to general nursing
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    HF symptom assessment

    traumaRUs replied to sharifi9879's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    Moved to Nursing Student
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    Travel nursing

    traumaRUs replied to ERnurse71's topic in Travel

    Moved to Travel
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    NCLEX

    traumaRUs replied to AnnieMitchell's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    Moved to NCLEX
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    ADRN-MSN PSYCH

    traumaRUs replied to KatrinaH's topic in Post Graduate Students

    Moved to post-graduate student
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    Nursing in Saudi

    traumaRUs replied to misa1986's topic in International Nursing

    Moved to International
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    As a CNA, What Was Your Starting Pay? 2015

    traumaRUs replied to NicoV's topic in Medical Assistant, CNA/MA

    Moved to the CNA
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    From RN to NP

    traumaRUs replied to Breh_118's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    Moved to prenursing
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    New NP grad GI interview

    traumaRUs replied to natharee77's topic in Advanced Practice

    Well congratulations on the interviews. I too joined a specialty (nephrology) practice when I graduated and like you, had no experience whatsoever in that specialty. Some questions I was asked: 1....
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    General Noise Discussion

    traumaRUs replied to Davey Do's topic in Nursing Humor

    Moved to Nursing
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    How often do you do nerve blocks and PA Cath insertions?

    traumaRUs replied to Bluebolt's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    @bluebolt I live in a rural area but as I have travelled extensively and lived overseas for 10 years in three different countries comparing rural IL to a medical missions trip in Honduras kinda...
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    How often do you do nerve blocks and PA Cath insertions?

    traumaRUs replied to Bluebolt's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    @wtbcrna. I lived in Alaska for a couple of years at ft Greeley, delta junction. No civilian hospital just a military clinic and if dust off couldn't come down from Fairbanks we were
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    How often do you do nerve blocks and PA Cath insertions?

    traumaRUs replied to Bluebolt's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    Yes, that is what I mean rural also. However, the one hospital where I almost took a job as a hospitalist was 75 miles from any hospital of any size, they had 25 beds, 4 ICU beds and there monitoring...
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    How do you explain the DNP?

    traumaRUs replied to FreudianSlip's topic in Doctoral Nursing Degrees

    Great discussion everyone. Just a quick admin and APRN note - lets debate the topic, not the poster. Thanks
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    How often do you do nerve blocks and PA Cath insertions?

    traumaRUs replied to Bluebolt's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    Yep that helps. I'm in the Midwest where rural means hospitals with 50 beds total, some critical access hospitals have 10-15
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    How often do you do nerve blocks and PA Cath insertions?

    traumaRUs replied to Bluebolt's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    Ok playing devils advocate here, why would rural hospitals place lines when most often the pt would be transferred to a tertiary center? I have been an APRN for 9+ years. The rural hospitals...
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    New grad first job

    traumaRUs replied to Junondfnp's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    2 weeks vacation? Most practices I'm familiar with offer 4 weeks the first year, $1500 CME plus a week for CME, completely free health care for you, all licensure costs (including DEA, NPI, etc). As...