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| |  Plan to transfer from tele to er
Hi to all!
I have been working for Tele/Progressive Care Unit for 16 months now and I am actually tired of my patients demands of graham crackers and juice, pain meds, and they usually feel that they are in a hotel, plus we have a 6 ratio patients to 1 nurse. Sometimes we do primary care nursing due to lack of techs and most of the time our patients are bedbound, our nurses are being cancelled every other night because of low census even we don't have any vacation hours to use in the first place, and our manager is not effective. Now, there is a vacancy at the ER with 4 patients max. and I feel like transferring but I do not what to expect because they are the front liners of all patient. Any comment?
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Jul 28, 2009, 05:15 PM
Re: Plan to transfer from tele to er
You must work at the same place I do!! I am currently wanting to transfer... it will be interesting to see the responses.
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Jul 29, 2009, 08:13 PM
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im a tele nurse too and my friend works in the ER and keep trying to get me to work there, she raves about it. im thinking about it too.
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Aug 06, 2009, 01:31 PM
Re: Plan to transfer from tele to er Originally Posted by pandaboi  I am actually tired of my patients demands of graham crackers and juice, pain meds, and they usually feel that they are in a hotel, plus we have a 6 ratio patients to 1 nurse. Sometimes we do primary care nursing due to lack of techs
That actually sounds like some days in my ED (they come in needing a blanket/bathroom/beverage/food tray STAT!), except that usually we only have a max of 5 patients at a time.  Why not see if you can shadow in that ED to see how it is there?
Good luck!!
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Sep 29, 2009, 08:38 PM
Re: Plan to transfer from tele to er
I am a tele/cardiology nurse and have applied to the ER. I'm very nervous about making the change because I'm comfortable where I am now. Still, I feel like I need to do ths, to learn how to manage trauma, fresh MI's, strokes and deal with patients who have not been stabilized yet.
I look forward to the pace of the ER, to the support staff (quite lacking where I am now) and learning how to do tasks that we don't do now (starting IV's, drawing blood, etc.)
I interview for the ER position next week. If anyone has any tips on interviewing or making this change feel free to comment.
Robinbird
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Sep 30, 2009, 12:33 AM
Re: Plan to transfer from tele to er Originally Posted by pandaboi Hi to all!
I am actually tired of my patients demands of graham crackers and juice, pain meds, and they usually feel that they are in a hotel
Don't look for that to change at all.
Everything is all about the Press Ganey and Gallup Polls.
Give 'em the kitchen sink whether it's good for them or not. After all they HAVE to feel good about their visit or you're doing it wrong. Can you say unreasonable expectations???
...I'm not kidding.
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Sep 30, 2009, 05:38 AM
Re: Plan to transfer from tele to er
As a recent transfer from the floor to the ED, I can tell you that it is different. While there are a fair amount of people that come to the ED expecting "pillow fluffing", it does not even come close to taking as much of your time and energy as it does on the floor. Not even close. Yes, you do assist people with toileting, get them warm blankets, maybe some juice and crackers, but the sheer amount of time you spend doing it in the ED is not nearly as oppressive as that on the floor.
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Sep 30, 2009, 11:43 PM
Re: Plan to transfer from tele to er Originally Posted by Virgo_RN As a recent transfer from the floor to the ED, I can tell you that it is different. While there are a fair amount of people that come to the ED expecting "pillow fluffing", it does not even come close to taking as much of your time and energy as it does on the floor. Not even close. Yes, you do assist people with toileting, get them warm blankets, maybe some juice and crackers, but the sheer amount of time you spend doing it in the ED is not nearly as oppressive as that on the floor.
I agree.
But, ER nursing is HARD work, very emotionally and physically draining. I suggest shadowing for a couple days to really get a feel for what ER nurses do. I worked on tele for 5 years and was still like a deer in the headlights when I started in the ER. It is a different world, fast-paced, chaotic at times, but can be very, very rewarding
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Oct 01, 2009, 03:34 AM
Re: Plan to transfer from tele to er
I graduated in 2005, i have worked er my entire nursing career and was a patient care tech in the er before that. I love it. I don't get attached to patients or their families because they don't stay in the er long. I worked pediatric er for 4 years, so not getting attached was important to me. Also, it is fast paced, you never know what's going to roll through the doors, you never know what skills you might have to use any given night. It is very frustrating, though, since many people use the er for a clinic. I would have to say more than 50% of the pt's i see a night are not truly even close to being a true emergency! But it is definatley worth it when you help save someones life!
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