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| No. 50 | 
Feb 19, 2009, 09:26 PM
 Re: 24 Things ER Nurses Know All Too Well
Ok, I just got home from work at the ER and found some people poo-pooing a thread that gives me a smile and some significant RELEASE! It would be rude to say these things to patients, which is exactly why we're saying it here, not there...so help us be polite and go read another thread for pitty's sake.
Now...to number...what? 56?? 60?: If you told the triage desk you've had a cough and CP x3 days, and you tell the primary nurse the same, and you continue to afirm these complaints for 3 hours, have an entire cardiac/respiratory workup completed, THEN tell the attending doc that you DON'T have any of those things, but DO have RUQ pain, don't get upset when I tell you you are now having new labs drawn and will need to drink 2 large glasses of contrast for your abdominal CT and DON'T complain about having to stay so long.
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Feb 19, 2009, 09:34 PM
Re: 24 Things ER Nurses Know All Too Well Originally Posted by janfrn  You obviously haven't read any of my posts...  (I do recognize sarcasm...)
My best friend is an ER nurse (currently misplaced) and we routinely spend 2 hours on the phone debriefing each other. It's therapeutic. I know she's lurking on this thread... come out, come out wherever you are!
My obvious sarcasm wasn't directed @ you!!!  | | No. 53 |
Feb 20, 2009, 02:05 AM
Re: 24 Things ER Nurses Know All Too Well
Hey I have learned alot of useful information on this thread. My favorate are: Incarceritis for a inmate whom is trying to get out of jail time. Pseudo seizure cure of amonia crusher for some folks the seizure is caused by amonia deficiency!! That to spoil the RUSH for a true drug seeker you can dilute in fifty mls of saline and drip it very slowly. You must keep an eye on pt. howerver for they will try and mess with the roller clamp while you are not looking and open the line wide. Some use one of those lock out syringe things like they use in surgery to push propathol!
| | No. 54 |
Feb 20, 2009, 11:33 AM
Re: 24 Things ER Nurses Know All Too Well Originally Posted by ThrowEdNurse My obvious sarcasm wasn't directed @ you!!!
Oh I know that. I just wanted to get a little jab in. 
Actually there's a lot of crossover between the things I'm reading on this thread and things I see in my workplace, the PICU. I've made a mental note of some especially good remarks that may come in handy someday.
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Feb 21, 2009, 02:57 AM
Re: 24 Things ER Nurses Know All Too Well Originally Posted by RN_in_SC ###. All family members (except the patient answering my questions and each one has a different answer:
Ma'am where does it hurt?
"Her shoulder"
"It's her belly"
Ma'am point to where it hurts -
Family member gets up and points to shoulder
Daughter "Do you think she will be admitted, because I have some phone calls to make"
"Also, how long will it take for her to get a room because I haven't eaten dinner yet"
Well, it's 5 0'clock now, let's let the doctor take a look at her and decide what to do.
#? Don’t bring your ten children (ages ranging 2 to 19) with you & your husband (who skinned his knee) to run freely around the waiting room playing bubble gum wars & rolling on the floor! Don’t you know the floor is a refugee camp for microbes? 
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Feb 21, 2009, 12:14 PM
Re: 24 Things ER Nurses Know All Too Well
Great, now we HAVE to put that disclaimer on all of the ER threads. But maybe it will keep the poo-pooers out once and for all!
p.s. funniest thing ever!!!!!
| | No. 58 |
Feb 21, 2009, 06:39 PM
Re: 24 Things ER Nurses Know All Too Well
While shaving my elderly STEMI pts very hairy chest, his wife asked, “I don’t mean to bother you, but can you get his back too?” Is that funny?
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
| | No. 59 |
Feb 21, 2009, 09:56 PM
Re: 24 Things ER Nurses Know All Too Well Originally Posted by I_LOVE_TRAUMA Great, now we HAVE to put that disclaimer on all of the ER threads. But maybe it will keep the poo-pooers out once and for all!
p.s. funniest thing ever!!!!!
Great, now I have to end all my posts with, "Disclamer and Red X!"
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