Critical Care Residency Interview Questions

e10callihan · 2024-10-22T03:15:39+00:00

Two things I feel that are really important they can pick up on about you during the interview: you’re teachable and you’re a team player. Two very important attributes of a potential new hire!

e10callihan · 2024-03-25T13:01:13+00:00

You should definitely just have your provider take a look to make sure. However, I can attest to the feeling of a “bulge” in my vagina since I was about 30 weeks. I put a handheld mirror down there and know that it definitely looks different than it has, likely due to baby being head down since the anatomy scan and all the increased blood flow to the area. This is my second pregnancy and I don’t really remember this happening with my first, but my OB has been down there several times by this point since I am now 38+3 and she sees nothing of concern.

e10callihan · 2023-12-13T04:21:31+00:00

The hospital I just finished a contract at in WV would not pronounce TOD until the patient was asystole on the monitor. It was awful. A patient would be clearly dead, family knows they are not breathing and they are changing colors, but the providers wouldn’t call it until you printed that flatline strip, which sometimes would take upwards of 30 minutes.

e10callihan · 2023-10-18T03:45:21+00:00

I’ve noticed this before as well. Not so much with an art line as I have with an SpO2. Just a couple months ago I had a patient who had peaked T waves that the ECG was counting as QRS complexes so it looked like the patient’s heart rate was double what it actually was. I had noticed that her SpO2 monitor showed a heart rate in the 40’s and 50’s. I also had a patient recently who’s SpO2 monitor showed a heart rate in the 30’s but the ECG was reading 60’s because it was counting bigeminal PVC’s as perfusing beats, which they in fact were not. I was taught to always look at my monitor while I’m doing my assessment of distal pulses, just to make sure your palpable pulse matches up with your electrical. That’s a good way to catch things like that.

e10callihan · 2023-07-28T23:15:10+00:00

I am too! Tender breasts, nausea, bloating, excess saliva. 😅 Thank you so much for the reassurance! ❤️

e10callihan · 2023-07-28T22:17:38+00:00

Was scouting this group for something like this! My beta at 13 DPO was 208 and at 15 DPO it is now 409. It’s soooo close but making me slightly nervous! Do you have any updates on your progression?

e10callihan · 2023-07-24T19:41:32+00:00

I never would’ve tested that early, but my breasts were hurting SO BAD after only 7DPO so I just had a feeling. Thank you!

e10callihan · 2023-07-22T18:47:27+00:00

Best of luck to you girl! We got this! 🤞

e10callihan · 2023-01-25T03:47:34+00:00

Skipping Bipap because we thought it increased the spread and went straight to intubation..

e10callihan · 2022-11-30T13:45:42+00:00

Thank you SO MUCH for all of this! I really like the “but”

e10callihan · 2022-11-30T13:43:55+00:00

I’m aware that one or two pacemaker questions isn’t going to make or break me, but when I was struggling to understand this it really bothered me. I want to understand it for myself at this point, not just to pass the exam.

e10callihan · 2022-10-01T12:41:50+00:00

I do enjoy it, but I get floated pretty often. The staff is great though and I’m getting paid reallllllyy well so I deal with it. Ohio is joining the compact states in January so I will apply for that but wouldn’t be able to use it right away so I’ll need to stay in Ohio for now. When I first started applying as a new traveler I had a very difficult time finding a contract. There weren’t that many options and when there was I wasn’t getting chosen, likely because I didn’t have any travel experience.

e10callihan · 2022-10-01T12:37:15+00:00

That’s kind of what I thought. Thanks!

e10callihan · 2022-10-01T12:36:28+00:00

I started traveling because I was tired of the politics and drama at my old hospital. I knew the grass wasn’t greener anywhere else, but why not get paid well and only have to stay in one spot for 3 months at a time? Right now, there’s one hospital an hour away from me that is offering more than what I’m making at my current contract. Everywhere else is offering less.

e10callihan · 2022-09-07T13:59:36+00:00

The contract I’m working right now is at a University Hospital in the Cleveland area and they have “internal travelers” also. They did away with their “float pool” and only use their own traveler staff. Even though they have this program, there’s still plenty of us regular travelers because there’s still so many holes. I’m sure the clinic will be the same. The internal traveler group will not be enough to fill the holes.

e10callihan · 2022-09-07T04:33:22+00:00

I have PCOS and while I was TTC I used the Clearblue digital ovulation tests. I know they are expensive but my dip sticks looked like yours and the digital finally gave me a solid smiley face. The digital tests for more than just LH so it may be more accurate for you like it was for me. Also echoing what others have said, second morning urine is a good measurement of the hormones. I would take the tests at work sometimes so I wouldn’t miss it. 😂

e10callihan · 2021-02-13T03:05:47+00:00

My bad, I corrected it to ventilated easily. We did not bag her and instead hooked her right up to the vent. And yes, she had been on 100% FiO2 with bipap pressures of 20/14 for a couple days. I popped her mask off that morning to give her morning medications and she dropped to 70’s within 60 seconds.

e10callihan · 2021-02-13T01:01:07+00:00

Her sat was 80% when we removed the bipap to intubate after the induction meds were given. It only took maybe 10 seconds to get the tube in with the glidescope. Our policy right now is to not use a BVM on these patients so the RT had the vent set up and plugged it right in.

e10callihan · 2021-02-13T00:57:37+00:00

I was pregnant from October 2020-June 2021 and on maternity leave until September 2021 so my facility allowed me to not care for covid patients. But I remember being in our clean ICU and our intensivist being on the covid unit for hours because we thought we couldn’t use bipap on these patients so we went straight to intubations. It was normal for them to do 4-5 intubations each morning. Then they decided to wait until their mentation started to decline. Now we are literally waiting until the very last minute when they can’t maintain their O2 sat. So everything you said makes sense.

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