nursey_chick

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1. ICU holds in the ER

   nursey_chick replied to Altra's topic in Emergency

   In my experience, when the ICU team have come to review the pt, they will document the managemnt needed and the ED doc will either follow through with these orders if need be and manage the pt while...

2. Im Injections

   nursey_chick replied to Queen of the E.R.'s topic in Emergency

   I did see an RN (While i was a student on prac), choose the area, swab and at the exact same time the needle pierced the skin, the RN slapped the skin adjacent to the injection site. A bit barbaric, i...

3. CT's

   nursey_chick replied to RNLex's topic in Emergency

   This may or may not have any relevance, but i thought it would be interesting. As an ED RN from Sydney Australia, our CT radiographers do connect patient's to IV constrast. Their only legal...