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Feb 18, 2009, 08:13 PM
 Re: 24 Things ER Nurses Know All Too Well
This is the best thread ever... Venting feels soo good. You can't make it up.
If you are a nurse and you bring your family in to ER, don't unhook the monitor and unlock the break and start out the door to the floor before I (the primary assigned nurse) say it its time. Just be a daughter and not a nurse for your loved one. You can give them that tender care we don't have time to. (fluff pillow, warm blankets x 3, glass of ice water, etc.)
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Feb 18, 2009, 10:46 PM
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Feb 18, 2009 at 11:01 PM by ThrowEdNurse
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Feb 19, 2009, 12:19 PM
Re: 24 Things ER Nurses Know All Too Well Originally Posted by jzkfel  You may call it venting - I think its unprofessional and a bad reflection on all nurses. As for wasting 1/2 of a prescribed medication and charting it as given, I think that's called malpractice, and you should lose your license for it. It certainly isn't something I would brag about or post on a nursing forum. I would not want to be a patient or a nurse anywhere where patients were discussed with so much contempt and judgement, whatever you want to call it.
This is us, ALL ER nurses. I think you better hard that you or your family never needs one of us. I think you will be truely amazed at the care you get when you come to us. There is no other nursing specialty where you have to be more knowledgable than as an ER nurse! We have a true, deep, compassion for the pts. we treat (the ones who are having an EMERGENCY anyways), the other 9 million that we see, have made us a little hard (LOL) but we also treat them with the upmost respect and compassion. I challange you to care for the strung out pt. who just got behind the wheel of a 2 ton weapon and killed a family of five(on Thanksgiving) with compassion and a smile, and see if you don't need somewhere to VENT to your friends to. Go ahead try it just once and see how you feel, would you come back? Would you even finish your shift?? I doubt it.
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Feb 19, 2009, 12:49 PM
Re: 24 Things ER Nurses Know All Too Well Originally Posted by jzkfel You may call it venting - I think its unprofessional and a bad reflection on all nurses. As for wasting 1/2 of a prescribed medication and charting it as given, I think that's called malpractice, and you should lose your license for it. It certainly isn't something I would brag about or post on a nursing forum. I would not want to be a patient or a nurse anywhere where patients were discussed with so much contempt and judgement, whatever you want to call it.
Ok,  honestly, who here has not THOUGHT about giving saline instead of narcs  . I am fairly sure that none of us here would really DO something like that. Thinking about doing something and actually doing something are two different things. We are human, have human thoughts, but normally do not carry them out. If you actually catch someone giving half the med without a dr's order, then start talking about malpractice.
Vent away everyone!!!
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