SpaceCoastRN

SpaceCoastRN

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About SpaceCoastRN

SpaceCoastRN has 3 years experience and specializes in Emergency Department/Trauma.


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  1. Non-Scrub Uniform Option

    Aviator scrubs work great for guys. Well at least for me. Tons of pockets and has a belt. The last like forever too!
  2. Do you have a nickname at work?

    Working ED and trauma I frequently get called many things that I am sure would violate the tos to post. But that is par for the course for the front door of the hospitals.
  3. Should I report my awful administrator?

    That is such a shame. Hospice is so very important. I hate hearing agencies treating their staff like that. Glad you found a better place to go.
  4. Lidocaine with Rocephin?

    I always recon with lidocaine. I prefer to verbally educate about std's than inflict pain as a lesson.
  5. Whats your biggest pet peeve working in the ED?

    Family members staring from the doorway annoys the hell out of me. I wish ERs would have a no visitor policy until they are ready for admit or D/C. And asking for phenergan and Benadryl with your Dilaudid tells me you have done this far too many time...
  6. Seriously?!?!

    Ciale, I have heard that pretty much verbatim so many times. Thankfully that is the standard and most of the people (staff and management) are believers in 'sick patients don't *****'. And yeah patient satisfaction is pretty bad but thankfully it is ...
  7. Seriously?!?!

    At the hospital I am currently at once you are assessed and general treatment you are put in a hallway unless you are an isolation or actually sick. No televisions and visitors don't get fed. No taxi rides or bus tokens either. While it is warmer tha...
  8. Extremely BAD night...

    The codes are one thing, they suck but happen. I feel for the person with the epi. I've seen worse (well same outcome although in patients that were already coded or pericode time) that were dealt with in the room and it didn't go further than the do...
  9. Extremely BAD night...

    Wow I would hate to have to document that someone gave that epi IV. The lawyers will be smelling blood from far away with that. Good luck.
  10. CEN review-which one to get

    Check your message box sent you a pm.
  11. Tech vs. RN

    It all depends upon background (well attitude helps too). I have worked with several seasoned field medics now working as ED techs that I would much rather code a patient with than some nurses I have worked with, everyone should know their roles ahea...
  12. CEN book

    http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0557119294/ref=mp_s_a_1?qid=1364302733&sr=8-1&pi=SL75 This is a good option it is more along a Cliff notes version of what you need to know. Has a good test and he has lots of videos posted on YouTube from his r...
  13. omg! Bad day! Failed my AcLS recert....

    http://medicine.iu.edu/residents/index.php/download_file/view/416/94/ Study guide by IU Health. Very well put together. Hopefully it will help.
  14. In the DC area most travelers that I know take the housing and are all making around $32 an hour. People working per diem or not taking housing make around $47. That is for ED at a level 1 trauma center.
  15. I am in a really nice furnished apartment just outside of DC, they gave me a choice of four different complexes up here. All had positives and some negatives. I would make more money had I found my own place but just showing up for work is really all...