billisuea

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1. acute care ED advise

   billisuea replied to billisuea's topic in Emergency

   We only have acls and pals no other education required. I am acls but havent been able to attend pals because it is always on my weekend to work and there are always others that get to go first. One of the Docs has just started giving lectures but ...

2. ER Call-back system

   billisuea replied to Barbara3000's topic in Emergency

   We have 2 LPN's that do all the callbacks for our department. We have a follow-up form that we print. She makes all the follow-up Dr's referralls and schedules outpt testing, Alot of our pts. don't have family Dr's so we try to get them referrals to...

3. acute care ED advise

   billisuea posted a topic in Emergency

   I work in a 22 bed ED where we seperate patients by acuity level.I have worked there for over 2 years now, prior to that worked in a Urgent Care based ED. My problem is this, I am never scheduled in Acute Care. My nurse managers say it is because I ...

4. Abandoning babies at Hospitals LEGAL?!?!

   billisuea replied to Antikigirl's topic in General Nursing

   I live in a small town in Ohio where we have the safe haven law in place, just recently we had a young girl give birth to what she said was a still born child and left it in the woods for dead. Wild dogs found the baby and left it in a neighboring ba...

5. Radiology tech, vs Radiology Nurse??

   billisuea replied to wackyj2000's topic in Radiology

   I worked for 20 years as a radiologic technologist then in 2002 decided that it would be fun to be a registered nurse. There are many aspects to radiology nursing, there are cath lab nurses that work closely with radiology tech and cardiologist doin...