UtErRnEmt

UtErRnEmt

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About UtErRnEmt

UtErRnEmt has 8 years experience and specializes in emergency.


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  1. Fastaff

    I'll tell you my experience with Fastaff. I was supposed to have gone to work for them outside of D.C. I finished my notice where I was working and called the hospital I was going to to verify when I was to start. Imagine my surprise when the NM t...
  2. PT, OT, or medical billing. no night or on call duty.
  3. What are your pet peeves?

    the wrong size bp cuff, if you have to manually keep the Velcro from ripping away, use the next size up. going to get a portable monitor or dynamap and it wont even turn on (you actually have to put the plug IN the outlet, close doesn't count). patie...
  4. if you could do it over again....

    RUN, DO NOT WALK away from nursing! If you are looking for a new career, investigate a business degree as the bean counters are the only ones with security in healthcare anymore. If you are clinical, if you even look at someone strange then you are...
  5. A friend of mine was triaging a pt when out of nowhere the pt hauled off and slapped my buddy in the face. She was told by administration that she couldn't press charges because "it would look bad". meanwhile the same pt threw and broke a dynamap and...
  6. getting walked on

    even if the person threatens to come after you physically?
  7. getting walked on

    after having a pt curse me out and than losing my temper, which i'll probably get pulled into the office over, i was wondering how management at other hospitals react in this type of situation. do your supervisors allow the staff to be verbally abus...
  8. Most silly reason for being called in the office?

    i had a manipulative pt come with a c/o vomiting blood so of course the er doc ordered an ng tube. i lubed the tube with lido jelly. well the pt refused to cooperate and wouldnt swallow and started swinging at me. so i pulled the tube and asked anoth...
  9. Your One Best Piece Of Advice Please.

    don't tick off the ems crews. they can make your life he** and bring every pt they pick up to your er. practice stretching out your bladder for the time where you don't get to pee for the entire shift. learn to appreciate pizza and other foods you ca...
  10. er visitors...a funny

    nursingis4me i hope you dont plan on working in an er. without some type of sense of humor you'll be burned out within a year. as another poster said we're just blowing off steam so we can return to work somewhat sane. i didn't mean to offend anybody...
  11. er visitors...a funny

    thought these were funny and true. add on if desired.... Alas, sometimes in the ER the family is harder to deal with than the patient. Here are some family member we all have seen in our ER: DOORWAY GAWKER- stands and stares at the staff, arms folded...
  12. treatment of "vip's"

    thanks everyone . maybe one day the vip's will open hospital usa that they teach us about in nursing school where there is extra staff in the wings to get us thru a brown nosing crisis
  13. Attention all ER Travelers!!

    i tried travel nursing 2 years ago. i compared it to being in dante's seventh level of hell if that tells you anything. however if you decide to do it just remember the agency recruiter and the rep from the hospital will tell you anything to get you ...
  14. two questions

    i don't know enough about legal nursing but maybe someone can advise. the manager of my department can read any email we send or recieve via hospital email. i would think this is an invasion of privacy. also the manager can and does check what is goi...
  15. treatment of "vip's"

    how do other hospitals treat board members and their friends/family when they come into the er as a pt? i don't have a problem doing one on one care with mi, cva or other critical pts but i do have a problem when a short staffed dept is made even sho...