Wolfe24

Wolfe24

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About Wolfe24

Wolfe24 has 8 years experience and specializes in ED.


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  1. Nurses Liability Insurance: Yes or No

    I always did until I started working in a military hospital. My logic might be flawed, but it just doesn't seem necessary right now. If I go back to a civilian hospital, I will get a new policy then.
  2. Government Contract Company Question

    I messaged you just now :)
  3. Government Contract Company Question

    I work for MedTrust at NMCP. Feel free to direct message me with any questions. My department isn't staffed by Loyal Source (I think they used to be), but I assume they are pretty similar in how they handle things.
  4. Reserve RN

    I've been looking in to Navy Nurse Reserves and I've been told only your years as a BSN nurse count toward your rank. I'm not 100% sure as I haven't yet talked to a recruiter, but I was told this by someone who recently commissioned into the reserves...
  5. In almost 9 years of nursing, I've never attempted to aspirate blood prior to administering medications. I didn't learn to do that in school nor has it ever been a part of policy at any of the hospitals I've worked at. On that note, I have never seen...
  6. EMS Radio Reports

    Monitor tech who is a paramedic answers the calls and figures out which room they'll go to. Nurse or doc can technically do it, but the tech is always right there, so it's easiest.
  7. Labor pool?

    I think it totally depends on the hospital as to what it means. Some places it's a float pool. Others you can even float between hospitals. I am in a labor pool spot right now and it literally only means that I am prn in my dept. I don't float anywh...
  8. Night Nursing: Precepting & Perception

    Let me get this straight - you're basing your entire opinion of all night shift nurses not off of any actual experience, but off of one complaint from one patient? Does that not seem a bit unreasonable? Then don't "do nothing." You'll have plenty t...
  9. My preceptor is everything they taught us NOT to be...

    I've skimmed through a lot of the responses here and I just want to say one thing: To the OP - You are right, it is NOT ok to scan meds that you are not giving at that time. I'm completely shocked that so many nurses with experience are advocating fo...
  10. Personal Guidance

    She will undoubtedly be exposed to male anatomy in her clinical training and later in practice. One of the skills nurses learn is how to do catheters on both sexes. Men can often get out of doing it on females, but I've never seen a female nurse not ...
  11. Why don't you just read the chart?

    I'm going to have to come to the defense of the OP here. I think many of you are not really reading what she's saying. She never said that verbal report shouldn't be given. Obviously there are times when a thorough report is necessary, but the point ...
  12. 11am-11pm ER nurse help!

    1100-2300 is my favorite shift in the ER! You don't have to get up early and you don't have to stay up all night. I also like being busy because it makes the day go faster. At my job we would open 2 more pods at 1100 and then close them at 2300 so th...
  13. CEN!!!!!!

    I read through Jeff Solheim's pocket pearls, then went to a live course of his, and then did practice tests in the ENA book. I'd HIGHLY recommend Jeff Solheim, I think that review course was what ensured that I passed the exam. Good luck!
  14. List of programs for nurses who wish to become paramedics

    I did the RN to EMT-B course a Creighton and it was fantastic. The staff there are wonderful; very knowledgeable, helpful, and nice. I really wanted to do their paramedic program but its expensive and my state offers RN reciprocity. One of my co-work...
  15. "Houston we have a problem" This just got very real

    Being more contagious later in the disease process actually makes a lot of sense. If you think about how this disease works and how people begin sweating with fevers and bleeding from all orifices, the opportunities for coming into contact with infec...