RoyalNurse

RoyalNurse

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About RoyalNurse

RoyalNurse specializes in CVICU, ER.


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  1. Nurses against Narcotic Abuse

    As an Emergency Room Nurse for 5 years, and a Critical Care Nurse for 3, I still think the most harmful disease by far is prescription drug abuse. And with the advent of patient satisfaction driving revenue for vastly underpaid hospitals, prescripti...
  2. I've always been curious about the perception that emergency nursing isn't critical care nursing. It qualifies as such for the CCRN, but it's included with "Camp Nursing" on this website. :) Obviously most patients are not critical in the ER, but w...
  3. Lateral violence

    Has anyone here had a successful outcome when it comes to stopping lateral violence in the ED amongst nurses? There's a big problem where I work now, the management is turning a blind eye, and HR doesn't have any policies in place. I've tried talki...
  4. Free standing ER good or bad?

    I work at a free-standing, the nurses all have a ton of experience and are really smart. It's actually a little harder to work in a free-standing because you don't have the back-up like the hospital. Patients will go to the main hospital if they "t...
  5. Professionalism as an LPN

    I get it of it's a stable telemetry situation, or med-surg situation, but this was a emergency room/urgent care situation, we didnt know who was coming in, and what they would need. Then the professionalism/ scope of practice comes into practice.
  6. Professionalism as an LPN

    Hi everyone,I just wanted to get some opinions from some LPNs on a topic.I recently worked with an LPN who was assigned to 6 "urgent-care" patients, I was the charge nurse. My duties included administering any IV medications that the LPN's patients ...
  7. R.N. Going To Massage Therapy School

    So cool, good for you!! I'm a VA RN, graduated from massage therapy school last August, I now work at a Massage Envy in VA for experience, my plan is to become a subcontractor for the nursing homes in the area to provide massage for their residents....
  8. Future Shortage in Bedside Nurses

    Not so much passé, as just plain unsafe. I am a BSN nurse, I've done ICU, telemetry and ER for the past 5 years, and have found myself in increasingly worsening working conditions. No lunch break for 12.5 hours, no one around to help with lifting a...
  9. Lost my first nursing job... now how do I find another?

    Do you have to list this job? It doesn't sound like you really got that much experience from it anyway. What you really have to do is figure out what your negative thoughts are that are holding you back from being a great nurse. These thoughts...
  10. What would you say to this shocking patient statement?

    I'm sorry to say, but you're just as "bad" as she is. You're judging her based on a preconceived notion about what an"professional patient" is. It's none of your business why she left AMA before, your job is to provide nursing care for her during t...
  11. Unwritten Social Contract: Your Needs Come First!

    I get what you're saying now, that is an exaggeration to not be able to void for 12 hours. I'm just bitter I guess. :)
  12. Unwritten Social Contract: Your Needs Come First!

    This sort of angers me, mainly because I've "played the victim card" myself. I've postponed bathroom breaks to chart because I worry if I postponed charting I would be distracted later and forget, or it wouldn't be an accurate time. But I really ...
  13. So frustrated with IV starts!!

    I pretend I'm performing surgery on the vein, I visualize what the vein really looks like, and imagine sliding the catheter right in:). The visualization helps me with nerves and negative self-talk. Sometimes I'll talk myself through it like a golf ...
  14. Why I'm sick of the ED

    1. When I try to delegate things to an ED tech because I'm busy medicating, assessing, triaging, or discharging patients, I get attitude, or "I'll get to it" while they're chatting someone up. That's if I can find the tech. 2. I have to fight to use...
  15. Magnesium for torsades

    Good point :) But can't you send them into V-fib?