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  1. ER nurses wear "biggirl panties"

    I wasn't having a bad day as it was suggested, I started the thread in the Er nursing area to give koodos to ER nurses. We rock!
  2. Hello Haldol

    omg...too funny....
  3. How many visits until you label a frequent flyer or drug seeker?

    you are not a frequent flyer/drug seeker.....where i am from a frq. flyer is someone who has an addiction to narcotics, their primary physician has refused to prescribe the narcotics so they frequent my er and every er they can as often as they can t...
  4. ED Admissions

    worth the read ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ guest editorial acep news september 2006 by david f. baehren, m.d. for a generation or two, we have lamented the loss of role models in society. as parents and individuals, we naturally seek out oth...
  5. ER nurses wear "biggirl panties"

    worth reposting...... ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ guest editorial acep news september 2006 by david f. baehren, m.d. for a generation or two, we have lamented the loss of role models in society. as parents and individuals, we naturally seek ...
  6. ER nurses wear "biggirl panties"

    We are the beasty girls and boys aren't we? We get talked about, yelled to, nasty talk, complained about,kicked, spit on, peed on, pooped, trash talked all through a course of any given day. Even when you are trying to be professional when a nonER nu...
  7. Help Please!!

    Yeah...I thought it too funny when one of the fellow ER nurses here told an ICU nurse....we wear big girl panties....omg..mad me laugh out loud....
  8. what nursing specialty do you work?
  9. Help Please!!

    hahahaha....should indeed be interesting....let us know how that goes..... looking forward to it
  10. ED Admissions

    Yes, I see your point....please see mine. I do not like leaving my 3 ESI/2 patient(s) to transport a now stable patient to ICU, but it's part of our protocol and we do it. It can get quite scarey sometimes....Luckily you speak of only one patient whe...
  11. ED Admissions

    I was invited to check out the responses to "ED admissions" by nrsang97 who recently visited the ER nursing site and voiced her opinion about a new policy her hospital instituted..... (having the ICU nurses come to get their patient from the ED). I m...
  12. I think a criminal is a criminal, and the police have learned through experience what works and what doesn't and the philosophy of safety to self first applies to them just as it does to the drug seeker in the ER angry and abusive towards staff when ...
  13. What exactly do you do as an ER nurse?

    It can be a dirty, exhausting job but ya know, I wouldn't go anywhere else. We complain and whine but my co-workers love what we do....and do it well I might add....we have an awesome crew.....even the newbies... Has anyone mentioned the digital diss...
  14. Misjudged EMT

    lol.....I get hotflashes and t-shirts under my scrubs would be miserable. I do wear a sports bra though.
  15. I think it depends on what has occured. In general, I have never seen excessive force used but rather force used to handle the current situation. Just the other day I had a patient who was verbally agressive towards me, when the doctor came in he bec...