okienurse68

okienurse68 specializes in OR & ER.

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1. Triage complaints- the good, the bad, and the shocking.

   okienurse68 replied to canoehead's topic in Emergency

   You also learn how to announce over the intercom for whoever lost their bag of crack in the lobby to come to the desk and claim it. This is hard to do with a straight face.

2. Triage complaints- the good, the bad, and the shocking.

   okienurse68 replied to canoehead's topic in Emergency

   We have some docs who read the triage note and say ***!! Give them a dose of lobby time then I'll see them.

3. Triage complaints- the good, the bad, and the shocking.

   okienurse68 replied to canoehead's topic in Emergency

   How about bit on lip by parrot!! Had that one not long ago

4. Triage complaints- the good, the bad, and the shocking.

   okienurse68 replied to canoehead's topic in Emergency

   My favorite complaint was after our first Tulsa earthquake. Nothing spectacular but a little shake for 45 seconds. This guy comes in with a complaint of post earthquake anxiety. I look at him and say "you're afraid of earthquakes yet you come to the ...

5. IV tips and tricks

   okienurse68 replied to kloock's topic in Emergency

   Because of the back pressure and because an accidental air bolus is much more dangerous arterially than venous. It is estimated that unless the patient has an unknown heart defect it would take approximately 60 cc of air in a venous line to hurt them...

6. New grad that was just hired at a rural hospital....

   okienurse68 replied to libbyjeanne's topic in Rural

   We keep a doc inhouse all the time now. We have gotten busy enough that it isn't practicle to call people in any more. Used to we did without a doc for about four hours a day, now we don't have that much time without patients.

7. Advice for a student nurse going on a rural placement

   okienurse68 replied to sej33's topic in Rural

   I don't know about New Zealand but in the states when you work rural you have to be prepared for just about anything. You will see everything from simple to complex laceration and foreign bodies in every orafice imaginable. Be will to laugh with your...

8. New grad that was just hired at a rural hospital....

   okienurse68 replied to libbyjeanne's topic in Rural

   Remember being on nights in a rural ER you will be all things to all people. You will go from tedium to terror in 2.2 seconds. If you have an experienced LPN don't be afraid to pick their brain, the LPN's I work with are the most wonderful nurses on ...

9. Langston in Tulsa.....

   okienurse68 replied to 2bRnKim's topic in Oklahoma

   I graduated from Langston at UCAT a very long time ago. The program then was solid and you came out of school knowing what you are doing versus some of the new grads I see from other programs today. Always remember "the only stupid question is the on...

10. Langston in Tulsa.....

    okienurse68 replied to 2bRnKim's topic in Oklahoma

    You will get the pharm and dosage calc early in first semester and throughout the program specific to what you are studying at the time.

11. IV tips and tricks

    okienurse68 replied to kloock's topic in Emergency

    A good trick for finding veins on people with deep veins or who are try is to use 2 tourniquets one about six inches below the first. It's amazing the number of veins that will surface from the increased vascular pressure that the second tourniquet c...

12. New grad that was just hired at a rural hospital....

    okienurse68 replied to libbyjeanne's topic in Emergency

    working in a rural facility you need to remember that you are all things to all people. Common sense is your best friend. Good luck

13. How to recognize a Frequent Flyer

    okienurse68 replied to EmerNurse's topic in Emergency

    The frequent flyers in the ER where I work can greet all of the nurses by name and walk straight back to a clinic room to wait their turn to be seen.

14. You Know You're an Old(er) Nurse If . . .

    okienurse68 replied to hollyvk's topic in General Nursing

    When you took pts to the OR on a surgical lift not a gurney.