Hey everyone, I just got offered a spot in the staRN new grad program for St. Lucie Medical Center's ICU! The program is not until Oct. 20th and the site is almost 1 1/2 hours away....so I am trying to figure out how I will manage childcare at that ...
Hey Castaneda, congrats! You get payed during your 13 week training however it is 15$/hr. When you finish and sign on with your hospital you will get paid more...whatever that specific hospital pays. Good luck to you :)
Hello all, Questions for you... is everyone still doing fingerstick blood sugars in their ICU? As of yesterday we are no longer allowed to. We can either draw off a central line or PICC, or we have to use a butterfly to get a sample (we can choose a...
I do math everyday...and I had a pharmacist make an error mixing double concentrated levophed last night. When we program meds into the pump there are different choices depending on concentration as well. Plus, in a code you need to pull straight f...
New nurse here with a question about appropriate charting. 1. When you guys/ladies contact a physician, do you chart their response word for word in quotes? For example, I contacted a physician the other night because my patients SBP Was in the 190'...
I agree with all of the above posts, and would add reading up a little on vents and vent alarms...what they mean/trouble shooting them. You will do great!
Thanks for the input :) I did follow chain of command and get the orders my patient needed so no worries there. I was just unsure of what I should have put in my charting.
Thanks for the input! I haven't found any research and when I asked again all I got was FDA white papers...going to be mandated soon...and no research lol. When I have a day off I'm going to look around some more. I'll definitely look more into goal ...
I didn't know about the program until I interviewed with a hospital that was involved with it. They told me about it during the interview and I got the same information. My recruiter said they are still looking for more new grads at several of the ho...
Hello adrijel, congrats! I am actually going to start in the January class as well, due to the fact that I would deliver during the October class and wouldn't have been able to complete the clinical portion. Thankfully, the hospital has been awesome ...
I remember classmates fighting over skills practice in clinicals...just remember that skills can be learned.Any junkie on the street can stick a needle in a vein. A good nurse, however, knows why he/she needs the IV regarding the patient and pathophy...
Congrats to everyone! I was just given an offer for the program that starts October 20th =) Can anyone who has been in the program tell me what the classroom and clinical hours were like. I want to take the offer but the nurse recruiter doesn't have ...