becca001

becca001 specializes in critical care/tele/emergency.

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1. What's the biggest mistake you've ever made as a nurse? What did you learn from it?

   becca001 replied to Mini-Murse's topic in General Nursing

   My biggest mistake was a med errror on a pediatric pt. I had recently been transferred to the ED after working for a couple of years on a stepdown unit and while the rest of the hospital uses metric system, the ED uses standard. Still being in the ...

2. Curious Question

   becca001 replied to CallieNM's topic in Pre-Nursing

   OP, you state that you are a known procrastinator and you get caught up in other things. Some folks just should not have those temptations staring them in the face. It is all too easy to get behind in NS and making it up is not only stressful (like...

3. Why is Army medic experience not valued for New Grads applying for ER jobs?

   becca001 replied to armyemtbsn's topic in Emergency

   What some may be losing sight of is that Emergency Nursing is not just about trauma and codes. You've still got to be able to tell a STEMI from an anxiety attack, DKA from hyperglycemic, and numerous other issues. Personally, I think your backgroun...

4. What was the longest code you have been in?

   becca001 replied to turnforthenurse's topic in Safety

   About 1 1/2 hours long. Pt was young (mid 30's) and wife had already lost a child 3 years prior. Unfortunately, it was unsuccessful. Seems the longer the code goes, the least likely for a positive outcome.

5. How the HELL Did They Get Into Nursing School??

   becca001 replied to PacoUSA's topic in Humor

   It's been a few years but we had a young lady that was a constant source of mystery as to how she got in and how she managed to stay in and graduate. Her clinical skills were close to horrible, she hid from the instructors all during rotations, she ...

6. Bedside nursing= depression?

   becca001 replied to Missy89's topic in NP

   I am currently in a NP program. I always have a mid semester breakdown, but seem to push through the stress. I currently work weekend nights and have been able to work full time and do an online program full time 8 hours a semester. This semester I ...

7. Calling Code Blue in ED

   becca001 replied to becca001's topic in Emergency

   Thanks again for all the responses. I greatly appreciate any and all responses. You guys are the greatest.:yelclap:

8. Calling Code Blue in ED

   becca001 replied to becca001's topic in Emergency

   P.S. ... OP, is someone in anesthesia bored, that they brought up this idea? No. The two biggest proponents of this idea are managerial and educators. I'm not certain what their agenda is but it's become a fairly fierce debate. Currently, Directo...

9. Calling Code Blue in ED

   becca001 replied to becca001's topic in Emergency

   Thanks for the answers. Right now, the Code Blue team consist of an ICU nurse, step down nurse, an ED nurse, the hospitalist/intern, RT and primary nurse plus whatever nurse can be spared from the floor that inititated the Code. We are not large en...

10. Calling Code Blue in ED

    becca001 posted a topic in Emergency

    As part of the Code Blue Team, I am participating in a committee to revamp our Code Blue policies. We are a 100 bed hospital with no tramua level designation. ED is 25 bed unit and sees between 100-190 pts in a 24 hour time frame. The Code Blue team ...

11. Nurses who worked through school

    becca001 replied to ginaw623's topic in General Nursing

    I worked 3 12's on weekend nights in a busy ER and was in accelerated nursing classes. During that time, I had only one child left at home (a teenager) and a very supportive husband. I basically had nothing else going on for that 16 months. It too...

12. "Sir or Ma'am" when addressing physicians?

    becca001 replied to nurs4kids's topic in General Nursing

    Okay, I'm going out on a limb here, but the most disturbing thing about the poll was that 30% of the respondants chose Are you kidding? I admit to being old (in some folks opinion ) but really??? Have we really lost the need for a little uncommon c...

13. Antiemetic Shortage

    becca001 replied to Peeker19's topic in General Nursing

    Have seen the shortage of antiemetics but the most frustrating one is IV Valium. Had a seizing peds pt but pharm said they had been out for a couple months. Ativan just doesn't seem to work as well or as quickly.

14. What is the weirdest thing someone has been admitted to the hospital for?

    becca001 replied to SweetsRN522's topic in General Nursing

    A toothache. A simple toothache. No abscess, young relatively healthy 25yo. Called PCP after ED docs refused to continue to give her narcs and pharmacies in town refused to fill the one script she did have as she was refusing the antibiotic. PCP ...

15. Clinical Ladder at a small hospital

    becca001 replied to vic_rn's topic in General Nursing

    I work in a 100 bed community hospital and we have recently started the clinical ladder program here. I'm not certain what you mean by successful, so far in the year and a half after implementation, we've had only a dozen reach the 3rd level and non...