CraigB-RN

CraigB-RN MSN, RN

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  1. How do you teach nursing theory?

    CraigB-RN posted a topic in Nursing Educators, Faculty

    How do you teach nursing theory? i have issues with some of the theories out there. A few that are actually sound educational theories that have been around for years before doctoral candidate in...

  2. Off duty RN scope of practice on an airplane.

    CraigB-RN replied to creativekari's topic in General Nursing

    My state doesn't issue paper licenses and most actually tell you not to carry the copy around. The whole imposter nurse thing, by people,getting ahold of your license. I'd have to look at them and...

  3. What to study?

    CraigB-RN replied to ahosoda's topic in Emergency

    One of the things that makes emergency nursing an appealing area to work in is that you pretty much have to know a little bit about all areas of nursing, with a lot of depth in some area's and a...

  4. What to study?

    CraigB-RN replied to ahosoda's topic in Emergency

    It really doesn't matter what the level of your ED is. It can all come through your front door. This is the outline of material covered by the CEN exam. CEN Content Outline – BCEN Ear aches,...

  5. New ER RN Question, CEs

    CraigB-RN replied to MMDEC's topic in Emergency

    Start with ENA, then I'd suggest AACN. American Association of Critical Care Nurses. It's cheap, less than $100 and all their CEU's are free. After that, I'd suggest plan on a conference a year....

  6. Great Apps for Great Nurses

    CraigB-RN replied to Brian's topic in Coffee Lounge's Lounge

    Read by QXmd. Since my facility uses a proxy server to the library I can get most journals to my iPad and iPhone. Next is Papers 3 which I use as a reference manager, to keep track of my PDF's. I...

  7. What is CEN, or CCRN?

    CraigB-RN replied to aachavez's topic in Emergency

    Nope. And it's not a chore. Just have to plan. I also member of AACN and all their CEU's are free with membership. I plan on a conference a year (this past year didn't work out). I do the CEU to...

  8. Should Nurses have to clean patients rooms after a patient dies or is discharged??

    CraigB-RN replied to Pride/hardwork17's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    None facility I worked at this was the consequence of better nurse patient ratio's. More RN's, less ancillary staff. Housekeeping did terminal cleaning,but we turned over rooms as

  9. Started a new faculty job...[rant/need advice]

    CraigB-RN replied to delilas's topic in Nursing Educators, Faculty

    I agree with all of the above. I'm just sitting here wondering which school it is. Having seen the DON and ADON shuffle happen to many of them. Even the one that changed to not for profit just...

  10. Nurses representing themselves.

    CraigB-RN posted a topic in Legal

    I spent the past couple of days review administrative court recording of nurses who had their liscense revoked. The nurses were now seeking legal counsel to try to get their liscenses back. The old...

  11. Pneumothorax question

    CraigB-RN replied to Liv19's topic in Emergency

    Do you mean a tension pneumothorax or a simple pneumothorax. A simple pneumothorax may not even be visible on a chest x-ray. If whatever caused the leak is still active then it can expand and grow...

  12. Staff Development

    CraigB-RN replied to BusiestBSN's topic in Nursing Educators, Faculty

    Although the school may be focusing on academics, the concepts of adult education are the same. The only differences are the specific regulatory requirements and pretty much no school covers that due...

  13. CCRN Today!!!

    CraigB-RN replied to OhioCCRN's topic in Critical Care

    A day late and a dollar short but

  14. The Heat is On: Why the Temporal Artery Thermometer Should Be Your "Go-To"

    CraigB-RN replied to Exergen Corporation's topic in General Nursing

    Comparison of temporal artery thermometer to standard temperature measurements in pediatric intensive care unit patients. - PubMed - NCBI Comparison of temporal artery thermometer to standard...

  15. Trauma Nursing - TCRN

    CraigB-RN replied to malenurse03's topic in Emergency

    http://www.bcencertifications.org/getattachment/Get-Certified/TCRN/Trauma-Nurse-Exam-Public-DCO-effective-01-2016.pdf.aspx Actually there is a blueprint, just no formal test prep material

  16. ENA2015 in Orlando

    CraigB-RN posted a topic in Emergency

    ENA Conference 2015 registration is now open. Get your paperwork in. I'd like to see many of you

  17. teaching w/o med/surg experience?

    CraigB-RN replied to ThymeRN's topic in Nursing Educators, Faculty

    I haven't done med surg in about 15+ years. They laugh because it took me two hours to do a med pass on 4 patients when I agreed to fill in on a geriatric Psych unit awhile back. Basic nursing...

  18. Adenosine administration

    CraigB-RN replied to sreynolds's topic in Emergency

    Do it without doc present. It depends. It depends on state scope of practice and your hospital policies. In my old job, I did it all the time. In this job. Nope. Not a chance. Don't need the...

  19. All CCRNs out there...

    CraigB-RN replied to kimmini's topic in Critical Care

    The PassCCRN is more a reference book than a study book. The key is to study as you go and only use the review courses for what they are. Review Courses. Look around your community. Other hospitals...

  20. Trauma Nursing - TCRN

    CraigB-RN replied to malenurse03's topic in Emergency

    I'm not. At this point it's not going to do anything to help me so I'm not going to spend the money. If I was I'd do like I would for any other test/. Print out the blueprint, assess my knowledge...

  21. Off duty RN scope of practice on an airplane.

    CraigB-RN replied to creativekari's topic in General Nursing

    Medscape: Medscape

  22. Discovered a boo-boo on Social Media

    CraigB-RN replied to mmc51264's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    Social media really isn't any different than if you were in bar downtown. Maybe even less serious though. How many of those people in this forum were in a position to have an active part of the...

  23. Off duty RN scope of practice on an airplane.

    CraigB-RN replied to creativekari's topic in General Nursing

    Waiting on the Doc if your a nurse and don't work in a critical care or ED setting is not insanity. You do what your trained to do. If your training is limited to BLS, then BLS and Auto...

  24. Are CEN and CFRN exams really as bad as everybody says they are?

    CraigB-RN replied to BIGT68's topic in Emergency

    Besides ENA join AACN and start getting involved in #FOAMed and #FOANed. Get on twitter search for ##FOAMed and #FOANed. There are plenty of resources on YouTube and Facebook

  25. CEN renewal

    CraigB-RN replied to tthornberryw's topic in Emergency

    YEs it can count. They need to be directly related to emergency nursing, which is a pretty wide definition. Geriatrics, public health even nutrition count. Go to BCEN website and download the...