gere7404

gere7404 BSN, RN

Emergency Room, CEN, TCRN

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  1. Asante New Grad RN Residency

    gere7404 replied to Yumi2019's topic in Nurse Residency Programs

    We take new grads that did their practicum in the ER or critical care We take nurses with previous experience on a case basis, with a preference for nurses with critical care

  2. Oregon Passes Groundbreaking Nurse Staffing Law

    gere7404 commented on Jennifer Romans's news article in Nursing News

    My ER used to be 3:1 ratio but now my employer is citing this law and making us go 4:1 kinda sucks to get worse ratios out of this deal when all the other floors are staying the same or getting...

  3. Asante New Grad RN Residency

    gere7404 replied to Yumi2019's topic in Nurse Residency Programs

    Float pool gets training on all of the med surg floors but seems to spend a lot of their time boarding patients in the ER.... they get a $6 differential to be flexible and I think the new grads...

  4. Med-Surg IV Meds

    gere7404 replied to Gyh's topic in General Nursing

    If you’re on a telemetry unit you might have to run cardizem or amiodarone both are pretty simple in terms of titration — cardizem goes up until you get the heart rate you’re aiming for...

  5. What are medics doing in your ED?

    gere7404 replied to FiremedicMike's topic in Emergency

    EMTs are tech 1s, medics are tech 2s…. Tech 2s can start IVs and draw blood they both do wound care and apply splints and help move pts and objects around the

  6. Monkeypox Going Viral! What You Need To Know

    gere7404 replied to Maggie Aime's topic in Infectious Disease

    I don’t think you need to bug out anywhere to avoid monkey

  7. Should nurses be forced to wear tracking device at work?

    gere7404 replied to Nurse Beth's topic in Career Advice Column

    We have a tracking device that has a button we're supposed to press if we're under duress 9/10 it goes off when someone leans over something and it gets pressed accidentally I've never...

  8. Best CEN prep/guide?

    gere7404 replied to FiremedicMike's topic in Emergency

    Depends on the availability of the testing center, I think three weeks was the quickest I was able to sign up for

  9. Best CEN prep/guide?

    gere7404 replied to FiremedicMike's topic in Emergency

    For free content, Mark Boswell has great videos on Youtube, but they’re from the previous blueprint so I’m not sure what info he’s missing. You can watch his stuff and compare it to the bcen...

  10. A Deep Dive into NCLEX Next Generation 2023

    gere7404 replied to Payton RN Writer's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    I’m not sure what the changes to the NCLEX are can anyone

  11. Two weeks into orientation, constantly terrified. Is this normal?

    gere7404 replied to hollyleaf's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I’ve been in the ER three years and have a CEN and TCRN — I still ask questions when I don’t know something and learn something new every time I go to work relax, it’s

  12. My Coworkers are Driving Me Nuts

    gere7404 replied to tnbutterfly - Mary's topic in General Nursing

    “Nobody told me I was getting a patient!” ”can you call back to give me report? I’m about to do a med pass.” ”I can’t take report right now, I’m in an isolation

  13. How To List My Credentials In Correct Order

    gere7404 replied to lam1997's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    I mean, is specialty certification really the most important? Plenty of great cvicu nurses without CVRN credentials…. on a side note, I got my tcrn cert added to my badge today and they put my...

  14. How To List My Credentials In Correct Order

    gere7404 replied to lam1997's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    it goes highest level of education first, so like Rose Queen said, the MS would go before the BSN. Then you put the highest level of nursing licensure (RN, LPN, etc), then any certifications you hold...

  15. Constantly being put in triage or fast track

    gere7404 replied to Stella_Blue's topic in Emergency

    Mid-shift usually gets assigned support roles at the ERs I've worked at; you're either helping in triage or fast track like you're experiencing, get stuck opening hallway bed zones where you can fit...

  16. VA Hospital Med-Surg vs Private Hospital Telemetry?

    gere7404 replied to future_rn11's topic in General Nursing

    the VA sucks, especially for paying new grads. you can put that $15/hr into a 401K and make more than whatever the current FERS benefits are. telemetry is easy to learn, check out skillstat.com;...

  17. Should Male Nurse Work In L&D?

    gere7404 replied to Apotheosis's topic in General Nursing

    I had to do like two days in a L&D unit in nursing school, it felt like 1/2 and 1/2 families were either cool with me being there and helping or asked me to stand in the corner so I couldn't see...

  18. Travel Nurses See Swift Change of Fortunes as Covid Money Runs Dry

    gere7404 replied to NRSKarenRN's topic in Nursing News

    Yep, rates dropped to where it wasn't profitable to continue traveling with how expensive my duplicated expenses have become. Went back to my home hospital where we are now facing severe staffing...

  19. Should I Get my PCCN?

    gere7404 replied to Nurse Beth's topic in Career Advice Column

    At my hospital you get an extra $1.25/hr for having certifications relevant to your unit, so there might be financial incentive to become certified. You also might know a lot about your specialty, but...

  20. New Grad Nurse Advice!

    gere7404 replied to NurseHay's topic in First Year After Licensure

    Congrats on the new job. You should know what normal values of vitals and labs are, and you should be able to interpret basic telemetry (like, recognize what rhythms will kill your patient). A...

  21. Get Out While You Can

    gere7404 replied to ERmadness's topic in Emergency

    I like my job but I think after 30 years I’d be done,

  22. Mass Exodus of Staff RNs…

    gere7404 replied to RegisteredNurseRNnnnn's topic in Emergency

    I left to go traveling last Summer when rates were insane. They dropped to the point where it was barely more profitable to travel d/t duplicate expenses. The hospital system I traveled to had a huge...

  23. Monkeypox Going Viral! What You Need To Know

    gere7404 replied to Maggie Aime's topic in Infectious Disease

    Hey, never thought that smallpox vaccine the army made me get would be useful for anything! great write up, thanks for taking the time to make

  24. Hospice to ER... Tips??

    gere7404 replied to Emm_RN's topic in Emergency

    This is huge, especially coming from a kind of nursing where you work alone a lot. ER nurses need to just jump in when they see something has to be done. We aren’t possessive about our patients like...

  25. Going back to work

    gere7404 replied to EFC1121's topic in Emergency

    Well, hopefully they have better ratios in the ER you're going to than the step-down unit -- my hospital has a 3:1 ratio for both units, so it's a lot less stressful to manage! Going back to the PCU...