mellowkat

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1. Bariatric Patients

   mellowkat replied to Lunah's topic in Emergency

   This guy was about 18-25 so old enough to know that being bariatric= not good. And old enough to know how how to manipulate the system with his obesity. Though I can understand young children not knowing any better. I believe that some of these peopl...

2. Bariatric Patients

   mellowkat replied to Lunah's topic in Emergency

   I once had the misfortune to nurse a bariatric patient that actually TOOK PRIDE in his weight. He was quite young and obviously ambulant as he had managed to feature on the news for severly bashing up a security guard at a night club. This guy by rig...

3. ED-did you always know?

   mellowkat replied to ~'JesusRocks'~'s topic in Emergency

   About halfway through the first year of my nursing course I had the idea that I wanted to be an emergency nurse. Even in my student rotation of the emergency department I was absolutely loving it. I did my graduate year last year and did several rota...

4. What was the MOST ridiculous thing a patient came to the ER for?

   mellowkat replied to JUSTYSMOM's topic in Emergency

   I have to admit that unfortunately that I am one of those annoying ones on the rare occasion. The was this one time when I had laparoscopic surgery and one of the wounds dehisced about 2 days afterwards (Only a small belly button one but I could look...