abidingpanda

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1. Best critical care book

   abidingpanda posted a topic in MICU

   I have three three years experience as an ER nurse and I'm really getting the itch to try ICU. One year experience at a trauma 1 and 2 years at a trauma none. I'm just wondering if there's a book that I could read to help prepare me? Any other ER nur...

2. Question About Hiring in ED

   abidingpanda replied to KrCmommy522's topic in Emergency

   Promedica, which owns The Toledo Hospital, Bay Park, and Flower, does have an ICU/ER residency. I know they split their critical care new RNs from their non-crit care RNs e.g., those getting a position on med surge or progressive. You have to pass bo...

3. Inserting an NG tube post arrest

   abidingpanda posted a topic in General Nursing

   I am a new nurse and I work in the emergency department. One of the things we do at my facility with a post arrest after we RSI the pt, establish IV access, and start drips is insertion of an NG tube. I cannot seem to figure out how to get the tube i...