dortizjr1

dortizjr1

Emergency Department Nursing

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About dortizjr1

dortizjr1 has 10 years experience and specializes in Emergency Department Nursing.


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  1. Staffing and covid

    Does anyone have an example of a PRN/Per diem staffing model that is working for their organization?
  2. best practices

    Hello, I have a question for Operating Circulating nurses, (or any nurse that can point me to articles), the OR I work in has the practice of having OR RN's pull local anesthetic from a pyxis in our core and then we leave that local anesthetic in th...
  3. Racist surgeon?

    True More or less what my parents taught me, though I'm not Jewish.
  4. Disturbing Conversation on Overweight Healthcare Workers

    I've been very interested in this topic, mainly because my hospital adopted a no hiring smoker/tabacco users policy several years ago. The policy actually states that new employees will be nicotine free - verified by a blood test and... our health in...
  5. Racist surgeon?

    I happen to work in an ED in a community hospital in eastern Pennsylvania. I'm not too far from Philadelphia and not too close. I've had very similar experiences to what OP relates. It's not just a southern thing.
  6. Higher Calling

    I'm a nurse in Pennsylvania and I was told many times by my instructors that nursing was a "higher calling" and that those of us who were there for a paycheck wouldn't make it through nursing school, or that we'd fail at our boards or that we'd quit ...
  7. mens shoes in nursing

    I hope linking isn't against the rules. I currently wear these when I work in my ED: http://www.skechers.com/style/76832/work-rockland-systemic/blk I'll rotate them out every few times with new balance cross trainers 608 v...what ever. The sketchers ...
  8. Are you a new informatics nurse?

    I still consider myself new to informatics. I've been at it for a year and a half now.
  9. Application Systems Analyst

    Ikarus7401 thank you for your insightful comments. I moved from Emergency Nursing into Informatics and because of my clinical and I.T. background I'm labeled a Clinical Analyst. Some of my peers have clinical but no I.T. background and they are labe...
  10. Patients need a nurse, not a computer

    So does mine!!! The thing is part of a contract my institution has with a larger stroke center... so my ed doc will do the initial medical assessment, determine that the patient requires the attention of a Neurologist and FRANK comes into play.
  11. I also had 0 medical experience when I started the program. Never bothered working as a nurse aid during the program either. I have a strong I.T. background and maintained that type pf work part time while attending RACC. Lack of a medical background...
  12. I graduated from RACC's RN program in 2007. It's interesting reading that nothing has really changed. One of my sisters graduated from Alvernia with a 4 year degree in nursing around the same time. We both sat for the same exam, the NCLEX, and both p...
  13. We can't go on divert!

    The hospital I work at is 30 minutes from 2 level 2 trauma centers and 1 level 1 trauma center. These three organizations are substantially bigger than the hospital where I work and they routinely go on divert. Actually it's gotten so bad that all of...
  14. Help me find the positive in this

    At the risk of sounding very ignorant, what is and ER tech. I have a nurse aids in my ED and they do nurse aid tasks. An ED tech sounds like a person who does more than nurse aid tasks.
  15. Help, ER getting swamped.

    Yeah but what happens when the hospital is full? I work in a small rural hospital. We total at 150 beds and we've ended up holding patients in the ED for three days. The ED i work in has 20 beds total. We resort to moving regular hospital beds out of...