Re: Being an "RN" does not guarantee you got the basics. Archived Message
Posted by Dave J on December 12, 2007, 3:14 pm, in reply to "Re: Being an "RN" does not guarantee you got the basics. "
Graham....OK...got it.. Nurse are not suppose to give medications that they are not familiar with and if they give one incorrectly, even if a doctor wrote the RX wrong, the nurse is still considered responsible for not knowing it was wrong. I do think some critical care experience is helpful but then again, I went straight from nursing school into anesthesia school (summer work between the two) and I never seemed to have a problem without that experience. As far as RTs running the ventilators in ICU, I am old enough that had I wished, as a CRNA I could have gotten grandfathered into the RT specialty. At that time the MA-1 was "state of the art" and we still had a ton of the little green Byrd ventilators out there. I kind of liked the Byrds as you could see inside and if they broke, they were pretty easy to fix. (I have 15 college credits on medical equipment maintenance also, which I think was more use than my summer work as an RN.)
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