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  1. ER Nursing resource online?

    http://www.rncentral.com/nursing-library/careplans/100_really_useful_web_sites_for_nurses A long list of nursing web sites. Some good, some not...you decide.
  2. MD: Why did you get a BG on this diabetic patient???

    My response would be, "So what labs do you want?"...
  3. Benefits of being a guy

    I can pee standing up.
  4. You don't work in anER. Get over it.

    Mostly minor care, occasionally urgent care, rarely emergent care...room
  5. What would YOU ask the E.R.? (interview)

    What color scrubs can I wear? Does this ER make nurses give enemas? Or a Fleets-to-go? Anything else is unimportant...
  6. Rules for dating my daughter

    My favorite line from the movie "Clueless": Dan Hedaya as Cher's father Mel: "Hey you! Anything happens to my daughter, I've got a .45 and a shovel. I doubt anybody would miss you."
  7. What can I do with my BSN that Assoc. RN's can't?

    And the "nursing theory" classes I took for my BSN were very helpful too... they made me realize I could endure any form of torture and brainwashing...
  8. What can I do with my BSN that Assoc. RN's can't?

    You get to take the side of "A BSN is better than an ASN/ADN/Diploma/Regent's/Foreign trained/everyone else debate" That's always fun....
  9. IV in AC

    Hmmmm....another way to "P" off the floor....he hee hhee...just d/c the IV before sendin' 'em up and tell 'em it infiltrated...yea...that's what I'll do if they gripe about the placement...let 'em start their own IVs...heehehehhehheee...next time you...
  10. IV in AC

    OK. But apparently it's OK to gripe about ER nurses and not about med-surge?? Like I said before, some of it was in jest, some not...If I hit a nerve, perhaps I wasn't too far off the base...or maybe your retort was in haste and you didn't read what ...
  11. IV in AC

    Just goes to show you can't please all the nurses all of the time... But I'll take a chance and offer my "enlightening" reasons why the AC is sometimes the site of choice: 1. Easy to start when you're behind and up to you a** in patients who all thin...
  12. Bilingual or not?

    I speak "Drunk"... It's a well known dialect that is often heard in ERs around the world and usually starts with a denial statement, such as "I schwear I ownleeeee had twoooooo beeeeeeerrrrrrssssss..." It's a very strange language in that it can inco...
  13. thoughts about miami area

    And practice your defensive driving skills..
  14. Lysis, IV Case Study

    You're right, phlebitis should be warm and an infiltrate cold, but like everything in nursing - the patients don't know or follow the rules... If the site is cold compared to the surrounding tissues, and you don't get a blood return from the catheter...
  15. IV Toradol?

    It sucks for anything except kidney stones/renal colic.