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the 24 and 4/7 wkr now on jet and INO, plus a morphine drip and maybe we're titrating dopamine who still manages to squirt the back of the isolette just as you want to change the wee-pee diaper. Any baby who manages to flip the bird while sleeping. Each and every baby you see at the reunion melts everyone's heart.

I want to go to Paris - with my girl friends and eat lots of cheese, not feel guilty, and then go to the Italian Riviera and have someone bring me breakfast in bed. Then I want to have a massage, and sleep uninterupted by small people, or husbands or phones, or cats or my charge nurse asking me to come in early. thats all. oh and a lifelong supply of good chocolate for PMS sx.

I love my Dansko's I have many pairs and have been wearing them for about 15 years. I have worn clogs all my life and like the flexible sole the best. I also go to a store and try in pairs. They are hand made - all natural glue etc, so I might by a left from one box and a right from the other. I also wear Sigvaris or Mediven compression stockings during my shift as I stand most of the night and sometimes sit on that rare break. I have tried Klogs and they're okay, my feet burn. Crocs give me shin splints. I have a pair of MBT's that I like - but only if I've had enough sleep the day before. (I'm a night nurse). The MBT's made me feel dizzy the first 4 hrs and then it took about 5 shifts to feel okay. Hands down, Dansko's win the day. :redpinkhe

remember "go to ROME" Respiratory opposite, metabolic equal" but if you're in the baby land those numbers aren't quite the same. Acidotic numbers for adults are okay for premies!

I actually like the Dansko sport the best. Crocs feel great and squishy, but my shins ache by hour 8! ( I do 12's) I alternate with Crocs and clogs, and put Dr. Scholls for back pain in my Crocs and this helps. I suppose if I went to Yoga more that would help too!

I was a Prep Cook, Secretary, Baby Nanny, Photographer's Assistant, then CNA while in nursing school. I've also been a mom for 13 years. I graduate next Friday!!!! 12/14/07 with a BSN and plan to go back to my babies in neonatology! We all do better with more nurses who love their patients - congrats to all the new RN's!:balloons:

when my spouse had yet another devastating injury from his beloved sport, I decided I had to go back to finish nursing school so I could be able to take care of my children. Along the route, I realized I really loved this path, and foud a way that I could matter AND make fabulous friends.

I went back to nursing school for my BSN at age 37. I am 40 and will graduate in 3 semesters! I have three daughters now 12, 8.5 & 4.5. I have been asked at least twice a week, "how do you do it?" "why do you want to change your career?" Well my answer is always the same. "I had to make a change somewhere." I had to be able to support my children and have a job that was meaningful and satisfied my curiosity. I also get aked if I'm going to medical school when I've finished my stint as a "just a nurse." I always smile and say that nurses have more interaction with patients, more chance for health prevention education. I work as a tech (cna) on the weekends to gain more experience. Good luck with your career path. If you really want to do this, it will work. :mortarboard:

at my hospital - the MOST travelers are in the medical unit. (the surgical is a separate unit) After the 8 wk stint, they transfer up to CCU or ICU. I work as a float tech - RN student and have experienced each unit (ED, ICU, CCU, PACU, postpartum, Medical, Surgical) except Peds and do NOT want to work in Medical. It seems to be just a glorified SNIF - but my lab partner at school loves it and wants to work there after graduation. I want to work in ICU or CCU when I graduate - and know I can get my capstone in SR2 nursing at a big teaching hospital that will hire me after graduation. I totally agree with Anagray - shadow/work as a float on every floor so you can see what you don't want, before you decide what you do want. good luck!!!

Have you thought of travelling agencies? I am a cna/rn student at a Sutter Health community hospital in the San Francisco Bay Area. Many traveling RNs come here from the South (GA AL VA NC TX) and South West (AZ, NV) I have learned the most valuable of my med surg skills from RN's who have launched their kids and now take traveling gigs for 8 - 12 wks all around the US but love the west coast ( I live in fog & sunshine.) I know that Sutter Mills Penninsula has recruited some of my fellow rn students from my 4 yr private school (tuition $$$) for $80K. Part of this is the benefit package - but the rents are higher here. I know at my hospital - new grad RN's in cardiology/telemetry can earn $42/hr plus benefits. The trick is to sign up for less hours (.7) and put yourself on call and pick up Over time. This can wreck your personal life - but if you want to get rid of debt.... good luck with your job search! I am in a similar boat with 3 small people waiting for me to finish my BSN!

My Mosby's Pharm 21st ed book says "client's hx s/b reveiwed for conditions that contraindicate the use of phenytoin, such as a known sensitivity to the drug and impaired cardiac fct, b/c parenteral admin may affect ventricular automaticity & cause ventricular dysrhythmias" p359 it also recommends using fosphenytoin im b/c it has less tissue irritation than phenytoin. epocrates online states adverse rex: v fib, hypotension, cardiovasc collapse, av condct abnormalities and tissue necrosis for IV's cautions/contraindicated for IV's c/SA block, AV block 2/3degree, sinus brady, Adam Stokes Were you giving this to Status epiliepticus?

heat, tourniquet and dangle.

what about real nurses writing the scenario? "I need a 22 French stat, my pt needs a cleansing enema" Really, who understands code brown? the exhaustion, the need for caffeine, the need for a lift team, and how much fun it is to cross a picket line when the local union is striking and it's the dieticians, cna's and your friends?