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I am new graduate and I have a cardiac ICU residency starting in July, I just wanted to check in with all of you seasoned CCU nurses to see if you have any advice for me. like how not to be so overwhelmed, or any tips or challenges you faced when you started working in the cardiac icu, and how you overcome them.
This is my story and what brought me to this point in my life. While our stories are all unique, maybe you are thinking of a similiar journey. I am so happy I made the LEAP into nursing. Maybe it is right for you too - but you won't know unless you try!
Memorial Day holiday weekend is right around the corner.
Who's working the weekend? How about Memorial Day?
Don't you just hate it when you are scheduled to work on a holiday?
I was asked by the cath lab manager to find some CDC guidelines for covering hair and masking in the Cardiac Cath Lab. I said, sure, no problem...then I started looking. Seems there is a lot of disagreement and variation in Cath labs. Can anyone tell me if there is some...
So, it's 1 week before a holiday and our manager announces today that if she doesn't have the volunteers she needs for the holiday shift we will just have to draw names to decide who works it.
What do you say to a manager that a) doesn't bother posting a schedule until we're almost out of any posted schedule, b) thinks it's fine to wait until the last minute to either get volunteers or force nurses to work a holiday, and c) thinks it's fine to possibly randomly pick nurses who have done holidays versus choosing only from those nurses who have say, not worked a holiday at all in the past 12 months. I'm so angry about this sloppy way of doing things, I want to say something without saying the wrong thing.
This was a new one on me and I thought I would throw it out there to the nurses and get your opinion. I was a patient today in an outpatient clinic. I was getting my vitals taken, and as the nurse was putting the blood pressure cuff on me, she pulled out her smart phone and said "wow, three text messages!" I said, "Oh, do you have a child emergency?" She said, "No, a friend with a job crisis," and then as the blood pressure machine was taking my blood pressure, she started reading through/responding to her texts. Then, when the machine was done with the reading, she realized she didn't have a pen to write down the vitals, so she took a picture of the machine readout with her phone (which I thought was...creative)...
So being an ER nurse of course we deal with critical patients. So yesterday we had a patient extremely critical, poor prognosis BP is like 40/10, we are maxed out on all pressors. Pressors are running through the triple lumen. All 3 lumens. My manager comes in and gives us some tips. He basically stacked three- 3 way ports together one for each pressor.
Hormone replacement therapy and oral contraceptives increase the risk of developing ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease, respectively, according to two studies presented at the annual Digestive Disease Week, held from May 19 to 22 in San Diego.
Before you started school, what did you expect the nursing career to be like? Did your idea change once you were in nursing school? When you became an RN, were your expectations met? Were you surprised? Disappointed? Is it harder than you thought? More rewarding that you thought? Less rewarding? Or was it exactly how you imagined it would be?
It's been a week since graduation with my BSN and I'm so happy that on Monday I had 4 interviews- 1 in HR, 1 with ER, and 2 with the health system's two OR's- the main hospital and the community one. Then on Tuesday I shadowed in the ER and today I had my peer interview there also. Next week I have an OR peer interview and an initial Telemetry interview.
The only position I actually applied to was the ER- HR forwarded my application to the other departments and they called me. I'm so excited and hope I get at least one job offer.
heard so many stories on this site about new grads not being able to find jobs and I feel so lucky that I got interviews so quickly! The hospitals are within a half hour of where I live (with my parents) and eventually I can move closer into the city. Everyone seems so nice and the ER and OR were some of my favorite rotations.
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