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  1. Medical School Faculty Appointment

    offlabel replied to rhardwicke's topic in Advanced Practice

    Not uncommon for CRNA's in university anesthesia departments to be granted associate professorship as an element of their

  2. Rooting out Racial Bias in Nursing: Hope and Grace

    offlabel replied to jeastridge's topic in General Specialties

  3. OG tube placement and trach tube

    offlabel replied to Kate96's topic in Critical Care

    Why would you want to place an OGT in an adult patient with a trach and not an NGT, assuming an awake

  4. CRNA interview

    offlabel replied to loouxoxo69's topic in Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist

    I'm sure it happens all of the time. The difference is that the person that gets in says "I don't know" and the person that doesn't just starts saying

  5. Cath/EP lab under Medicine service

    offlabel replied to OUxPhys's topic in Government, Military

    I'd say you're also missing out on a lot of the BS arbitrary demands the dept of Nursing makes regardless of sub-specialty and circumstances. I'd also say take it and run. Whatever you're missing out...

  6. Family or career?

    offlabel replied to rn92077's topic in Health, Stress Management

    What does 'barely get by'

  7. Monkeypox...Another Pandemic?!

    offlabel replied to Sheana Gray's topic in Infectious Disease

    I think what turns people off is the constant polemical insertion of ideology with regard to communicable dz that has occurred with the covid pandemic. Both from the right and the left. So, monkey pox...

  8. Help!

    offlabel replied to nurseinthemaking24's topic in Critical Care

    This a test question? 'Cause it speaks to dumb, irrelevant test questions. First to fail when? A half hour before the next organ failure? An hour? A day? What if the reality is different from the test...

  9. Danger! Paralytic Drugs!

    offlabel replied to dthfytr's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Double checking a med has more to do with the dose than verifying the drug. If verifying the correct drug being given was requiring a 2 RN check, the list of double check drugs would be endless. The...

  10. Why not paralyze??

    offlabel replied to Ketofol's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    Just did that a couple of days ago...liter and a half blood loss, 3 u prbcs, renal failure patient...did

  11. Monkeypox, Misinformation, and a Growing Public Health Emergency | What Nurses Need to Know

    offlabel replied to Meg Lambrych's topic in General Nursing

    Anyone can get monkeypox, regardless of gender identity or sexual orientation, and unless we take steps to provide evidence-based and compassionate information to all of our patients, transmission is...

  12. Starting a new IV line

    offlabel replied to nurseinthemaking24's topic in Critical Care

    You're never going to get all the tiny air bubbles out and they don't matter anyway unless there is an intracardiac right to left defect that is significant enough for someone to want to put an air...

  13. Trauma ICU or ER

    offlabel replied to paigeeeee's topic in Critical Care

    Generally speaking, trauma nursing in the ER is in very brief increments and limited to the earliest and most basic stabilization events in the patient's hospital course. They're specialists in...

  14. Why not paralyze??

    offlabel replied to Ketofol's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    The bottom line is that paralyzing takes more work, especially if you take full advantage of it by lightening the anesthetic. You have to get out of your chair and check twitches regularly. Whether...

  15. Monkeypox...Another Pandemic?!

    offlabel replied to Sheana Gray's topic in Infectious Disease

    Per WHO, the highest risk group is men who have sex with men. This is a sexually transmitted disease that is primarily affecting very specific groups. Lots of good information here:...

  16. Why not paralyze??

    offlabel replied to Ketofol's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    There is no straight answer. Varying levels of stimulation require varying depths of anesthesia. Lot's of times patients cough on the tube during stimulation because the surgical stimulus somewhere...

  17. What to do with lab coats after leaving job

    offlabel replied to OncRN2015's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    You could use it working around the garage or painting. Might make a good apron in the kitchen

  18. Etomidate Vs. Propofol for Standard Inductions of GA

    offlabel replied to stevesmithSRNA373's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    Don't know why someone would choose etomidate over propofol

  19. The MD Bias Hits Home

    offlabel replied to JBMmom's topic in Advanced Practice

    Also important to remember that NP's aren't the only midlevel providers available. Joining in on the antagonism game is a good way to have to compete with

  20. Potassium IV hack

    offlabel replied to atlnurse7's topic in Critical Care

    An absurd claim. Air filters are just IV extensions that are used widely for all kinds of medication infusions in patients every single

  21. Potassium IV hack

    offlabel replied to atlnurse7's topic in Critical Care

    write it

  22. Does anyone still teach percussion in assessment?

    offlabel replied to SHGR's topic in Nursing Educators, Faculty

    Calculating drops per minute was a math exercise to graduate. No one ever gave precise volumes or unit/time doses accurately using gravity flow. At the very best, the rate would change as the volume...

  23. Potassium IV hack

    offlabel replied to atlnurse7's topic in Critical Care

    slowed down the infusion?

  24. Taking blood samples

    offlabel replied to J.Robinson011's topic in PICU, Pediatric

    So? Stepdown units can take a lines. My kid (1-6 yo)? Multiple (more than 2) sticks? Do

  25. Potassium IV hack

    offlabel replied to atlnurse7's topic in Critical Care

    Sometimes PIV K doesn't