Critical Care-Bear

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1. Critical care internship...

   Critical Care-Bear replied to nursing 101's topic in MICU, SICU

   Where did you guys find out about hospitals that offer such training programs. I live in Orange County NY, I guess I could live in Long Island for a while. I was hoping to find a program around here...

2. NP before CRNA, or straight to CRNA?

   Critical Care-Bear replied to Critical Care-Bear's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

   You're probably right elkpark. I didn't mean to raise any red flags or annoy you. It's just kinda scary for me with all the stigma's associated with being a new nurse. I was hoping to bypass this by...

3. NP before CRNA, or straight to CRNA?

   Critical Care-Bear replied to Critical Care-Bear's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

   I took this qoute from a previous thread found in this forum titled, "NP or CRNA." It raised an interesting point that a lot of people have brought up regarding the benefits of being an NP. Let's take...

4. NP before CRNA, or straight to CRNA?

   Critical Care-Bear replied to Critical Care-Bear's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

   Thanks for the advice everyone. I think you're right katyosu2006 -- I didn't take into consideration that an NP's role in the ICU would be different than an RN's. CRNA schools stress the ICU...

5. NP before CRNA, or straight to CRNA?

   Critical Care-Bear posted a topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

   Maybe you NP's can help with this (I wasn't too sure where else to post this): I'm currently a 25 year old male in a BSN program and my goal is to ultimatlety become a CRNA (or MDA, as I would go the...

6. Owning your own practice?

   Critical Care-Bear posted a topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

   Hello, I was going to go into the CRNA field but now I'm considering the NP route. A girl in my class (BSN program) mentioned that she was going to go the NP route. She mentioned that NP's make the...

7. Knocked out from cough med?

   Critical Care-Bear replied to JVanRN's topic in General Nursing

   Tussionex is a brand of cough medicine manufactured by celltech and it is widely regarded as "the best" cough medicine. The active ingredients are Hydrocodone and Chlorpheniramine. Hydrocodon is an...