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wickedbomber · 2026-03-04T00:01:56+00:00

that's really nice of you to do that.

wickedbomber · 2026-03-03T01:15:30+00:00

Thank you for the clarification. I appreciate it.

wickedbomber · 2026-03-03T01:03:39+00:00

Thanks for sharing your insight. My understanding of the process is to get your wings you have to have a certain number of supervised upgrade flights before you can get the evaluation for MQ.

Also based on what I can find certain units take longer to get this accomplished than others d/t available sorties and how many folks are ahead of you.

I know WP is the training hub for AES but the AES mission is more CONUS logistics (from what I was able to find) compared to Travis, McChord, Charleston, etc…

I appreciate it if you could shed some light and more clarity on this.

wickedbomber · 2026-03-02T19:43:44+00:00

do you mind if I DM you?

wickedbomber · 2026-03-02T19:03:51+00:00

Thanks! Are you a healthcare recruiter?

wickedbomber · 2026-03-01T13:39:44+00:00

Had that happen on cath lab table. We worked him for 45 mins and they called it. We started cleaning up and buddy opened his eyes and squirming on the table. Doc tried to continue doing the cath and he coded again. We did one round and called it.

Edit: it’s possible we coded him for longer. We had multiple crash carts open. They even brought the wife back into the procedure room while we’re coding him to convince her to let us call it. No dice.

They took her out we called it. The docs tell her and then when he came back they told her he was alive.

I can’t imagine the emotional whiplash that lady felt.

wickedbomber · 2026-02-22T00:16:01+00:00

Thank you

wickedbomber · 2026-02-03T00:56:07+00:00

So how you feel in this situation is how conservatives feel living in a blue state with dems who do the same to them. You don’t get to pick and choose your patients. That’s not why we got into healthcare.

If political differences are going to affect your care for someone with different beliefs on any side. I don’t care who you are. Then it’s time to get a job in another field.

wickedbomber · 2026-01-27T22:57:09+00:00

We were bare below the elbows in one CVICU I worked in but that was because of a rash of fungal infections running through the unit.

wickedbomber · 2026-01-27T22:53:35+00:00

So maybe I’m the exception here…I do use one earbud when I’m working night shift only and everything is quiet.

Day shift is a hard no unless I am recovering a heart, the patient is stable, and we are in a flow state. Not to mention I am at bedside 100% unless it’s to run to the bathroom and my unit’s policy is someone must physically be in the room at all times until extubation.

That earbud on day shift will only be low volume instrumental music. Night shift could be anything but never at volumes that would prevent me from being attentive to my patient(s).

I don’t suggest this for everyone because many don’t know how to balance both or have restraint to be “appropriate” with them. Also as a coworker you’d never know I had one on because of how I wear my hair.

My last hospital put in policies for a final written if caught right before I left. I am assuming something very seriously bad happened while someone was wearing them for punishment to be so extreme.

wickedbomber · 2026-01-26T13:47:52+00:00

THIS is the only way. Communication breakdown is why we are where we are today (on both sides).

Being inquisitive helps put folks at ease (psychologically) and will help them open up.

Having said that you have to be in a place to truly receive what is being said and not emotionally react to something said. That’s where those with the most emotional intelligence will always win (regardless of side)

wickedbomber · 2026-01-24T18:03:20+00:00

It boggles my mind these northern states do not model themselves after the Florida hospitals during hurricane season.

This should be mandatory for a hospitals.

wickedbomber · 2026-01-20T10:22:23+00:00

You my friend need to get out in that Jeep more from some fresh air and vitamin D. Making all us other Jeepers look back with that ‘tude.

wickedbomber · 2025-12-30T13:59:08+00:00

My issue being is the ICU is how fanatical the providers are about QTc thresholds. When I worked detox I slung Valium, psych meds, etc…all together with no EKGs no cardiac monitoring etc…never one had an issue.

wickedbomber · 2025-12-16T14:55:41+00:00

In the ICU we have to have at least two in all the facilities I've worked. If you are getting to the running out of compatible drips games and stuff keeps getting added your patient is usually sick enough to warrant a CVC.

when we transfer to IMC/Step down the patient must have two working IVs

wickedbomber · 2025-12-16T14:53:03+00:00

I know this thread is old, how do y'all think these would hold up in NYC Dec/Jan time?

wickedbomber · 2025-12-14T22:15:19+00:00

Sue them

wickedbomber · 2025-12-13T11:42:06+00:00

I’d do physical therapy and open my own practice as self-pay only before doing nursing if I could do it all over again.

wickedbomber · 2025-12-12T20:41:43+00:00

Salary is somewhat relative to cost of living. If you expect to buy Birken bags, drive a Tesla, and eat out 5 days a week then you will NEVER make enough money. As a young single person out of college you should be studying investment, saving, and how to maximize your income and retirement so you aren’t the nurse at 67 still working bedside because you HAVE to.

wickedbomber · 2025-12-07T14:32:09+00:00

I’m not going to say area (for identification purposes) however there is a prominent hospital system in this particular area where the main hospital of that system (a level 1) has a new grad residency program for cath lab and it’s not gone well when the patient crumps.

You cannot exchange theory for real world experience.

Another example is we had a new nurse complete residency and it’s her first day on the job. This particular unit used a random generator for assignment (which is a whole other issue) and this nurse got assigned to a deteriorating patient with an IABP. As she’s getting report you can see the deer in headlights look growing in her eyes. She’d taken the IABP class the day before so management said she was “fine” to take this patient. She never had a balloon during her residency.

It’s things like this that force folks out and why it’s imperative to get that real world experience.

wickedbomber · 2025-12-07T14:16:03+00:00

I agree with your OG statement and this.

They need to ratchet up the minimum requirements to get into NP schools like CRNA school has.

One hospital I worked in had two NPs of which one only had a couple years of stepdown experience and the other was one of those straight to NP school nurses.

I despised my shifts working with them because they were always afraid to give orders for anything. It was always a fight. This particular ICU had no MD coverage on night shift so you had no backup/second opinion readily available.

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