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rearviewmirror BSN, RN

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  1. Is this lifestyle possible in Alaska?

    rearviewmirror posted a topic in General Nursing

    Hi, I'm an ER nurse in big city and I always thought that I was a big city person, but after couple yrs of nursing, I grew tired of the city, the people and everything. To be frank, I don't like...

  2. NEW GRAD Inner city ER

    rearviewmirror replied to Omegaseamaster's topic in Emergency

    *****??? Jesus

  3. your night shift sleep must's and never's

    rearviewmirror posted a topic in General Nursing

    Oh.... boy. My vacation is almost over and for these past few weeks, I have been sleeping pretty good (5-6 hrs w/o waking up vs waking q2 hrs) and my energy and mood has been higher, but night shift...

  4. your night shift sleep must's and never's

    rearviewmirror replied to rearviewmirror's topic in General Nursing

    Thanks for all the inputs so far. Thankfully I have smaller window so 2 layers of blackout curtains pretty much blocks out all sun light even during noon. I have not tried the sun glasses thing...

  5. Second career nurses: what if you ended up not liking nursing?

    rearviewmirror replied to Infofreak411's topic in General Nursing

    I suggest people to not get into nursing. I wouldn't have if I have known what healthcare business was all

  6. Thinking about quitting nursing school

    rearviewmirror replied to LucyJan's topic in General Nursing

    How can you be 17 and be in a nursing

  7. I am an ER doc. I wrote a short story about a girl having a seizure.

    rearviewmirror replied to pg212's topic in General Nursing

    Thank you for excellent share of your story Dr. Green. Funny this reminded me of the movie (also book) gifted; story of Dr. Ben Carson in which he performs hemispherectomy for seizure pediatric...

  8. Heavily considering change to Day shift

    rearviewmirror replied to rearviewmirror's topic in Emergency

    @foragreatergood: I know! you feel so much better, energetic and just vibrant with life and sanity when you actually get to sleep like normal people:sleep: and live in the same rhythm as rest of the...

  9. Heavily considering change to Day shift

    rearviewmirror replied to rearviewmirror's topic in Emergency

    @pugmom what did you hate about day shift? I really like the bonding of night shift and plus of not worrying about management and petty little things, but I have miserable time sleeping during day....

  10. The HARD Truth for most nurses

    rearviewmirror replied to Humaneclowninscrubs's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    I see why the op is getting criticized harshly, but at the same time, I can't lie here and say I enjoy nursing either (although there are pluses of it). There are already plenty of threads of the...

  11. Question on triple A repair

    rearviewmirror posted a topic in Operating Room

    Hello, sirs and madams. Where better is there for me to ask about operations than in the forum packed with OR geniuses!? As the video I youtubed for better understanding of the surgery showed, it...

  12. Pseudoseizures and screening for sexual abuse

    rearviewmirror replied to Lev's topic in General Nursing

    I never thought of relating those two, but without more data and research studies, I'm completely unaware of their connections. Pseduseizures, however, I do know that can be treated excellently with...

  13. meditech edm help

    rearviewmirror replied to pkapple's topic in Emergency

    I'm sure you already know how to chart, as everything goes, just keep charting and you will get better. I hate meditech with passion; it's outdated, slow, redundant, cheap, and ineffective. I used a...

  14. Soon to be New Graduate

    rearviewmirror replied to BurtMuffin's topic in Emergency

    As I always say, if you want to be an ER nurse, go and be an ER nurse. Do you think yr and half of floor experience helped me become an ER nurse? (chuckle). Hope you land an ER

  15. Performance recognition in your facility...

    rearviewmirror replied to stineknight's topic in Emergency

    Our dept used to have daily emails to staff about how some people did fabulous jobs the prior shift and it didn't have to be something lifesaving or heroic; if you worked hard without complaining you...

  16. endovascular repair question

    rearviewmirror replied to rearviewmirror's topic in Emergency

    ct showed endoleak, so it was no full blown dissection or another rupture, but pretty bad leak. he was stable for the whole time until i took him upto icu. he will need surgery pretty quick though....

  17. 2 job offers..ER VS CDU

    rearviewmirror replied to bhayes4's topic in Emergency

    I was in CDU before I transferred to ER. From my experience, I didn't learn much from CDU. It's typically a place where you hold patients for couple hrs and then you let them go home. no one acute...

  18. What is correct way to do gastric lavage using NGT?

    rearviewmirror posted a topic in Emergency

    Hey everyone, I wanted to ask a quick question for those well versed (not that kind of versed) in all around areas, and I am little weak on NGT or other GI side. When you gastric lavage someone using...

  19. What is correct way to do gastric lavage using NGT?

    rearviewmirror replied to rearviewmirror's topic in Emergency

    haha yeah i was kind of wondering that too but that's what everyone uses instead of getting a bucket of tap water, which i get because it's better to pour 1L of ns bottle into basin instead of filling...

  20. What is correct way to do gastric lavage using NGT?

    rearviewmirror replied to rearviewmirror's topic in Emergency

    thanks for

  21. Does Medic Experience Count?

    rearviewmirror replied to reyndonn1054's topic in General Nursing

    I humbly have different opinion than others on this. It is accurate to say that medics and RNs have for the most part have quite similar job functions; you know, taking care of patients. The big...

  22. Newly hired nurse

    rearviewmirror replied to Walkingbad's topic in General Nursing

    well, i never scheduled a vacation while i was orienting, so i can't be in your shoes, but... from what gossips i hear between coworkers of present and past, pulling something like that is a bad idea...

  23. What is correct way to do gastric lavage using NGT?

    rearviewmirror replied to rearviewmirror's topic in Emergency

    really? I thought it was pretty common thing done in ER since it is one of few ways to treat poison/drug od pts.