ernurse2244 replied to Lurksalot's topic in Emergency
I am a solo ER nurse in a small rural hospital. I have cared for friends, neighbors, co-workers and family members and never really gave it a thought. I have never gotten any negative feedback and have frequently gotten positive feedback. They see...
ernurse2244 replied to SnowymtnRN's topic in Emergency
I am trying to recover from 3 12's + in a row. Our county population tripled over the past 10 days due to a local fair that has a big draw. No extra staffing this weekend. At 61 I am too old for this s***. But in normal times I love my work, usua...
ernurse2244 replied to ernurse2244's topic in Emergency
God bless you! can you afford to look into other avenues like ambulatory care? or is the emergency room your kind of thing? Hi, ambulatory care isn't really an option for me. I hate doing home nursing. The paper work is a killer for me. And, on go...
This is the situation...I work in a small hospital in a rural community. Hospital has 30 beds, ER has 5 beds, usual visits/day about 15. This time of year it is more. We have a 110 bed nursing home associated with the hospital, so several patients...
ernurse2244 replied to ernurse2244's topic in Psychiatric
Thanks for all the answers and questions. I have worked 24 of the last 36 hours so haven't gotten back to you before now. I didn't give you alot of details about my DIL to keep my post short. As an ER nurse, I see mental health patients in crisis...
ernurse2244 replied to SWFlorida's topic in Emergency
My experience with families in the code situation is when it happens without warning and they are already at the bedside. No time to waste a member of a rather small code team to usher them out. I have never had a bad experience. Recently it was o...
ernurse2244 replied to SWFlorida's topic in Emergency
guy came in two nights ago...admitted up front to having a foreign body in rectum. even brought a duplicate of the glass cylinder bottle, rounded at presenting end, capped at the other end. he was using the one in his rectum to push in his hemorrho...
I need help. I was having alot of trouble with my daughter-in-law and just couldn't figure out what was going on. Our relationship had deteriorated over several years from warm, close to hostile and lots of control issues. Being at loose ends, I s...
ernurse2244 replied to tizmonster's topic in Activism
New overtime rules are murky Fine print sure to stir flurry of lawsuits By MARILYN GEEWAX The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Published on: 04/24/04 WASHINGTON-This week, Labor Secretary Elaine Chao will go to Capitol Hill to tell lawmakers how the nati...
ernurse2244 replied to tizmonster's topic in Activism
New overtime rules are murky Fine print sure to stir flurry of lawsuits By MARILYN GEEWAX The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Published on: 04/24/04 WASHINGTON-This week, Labor Secretary Elaine Chao will go to Capitol Hill to tell lawmakers how the nati...
ernurse2244 replied to ernurse2244's topic in Emergency
I agree with what you are saying about the family, but what is the criteria? Rigor mortis had set in. I am ok that we went out and said "we did all we could do". But I am really asking, professional to professional, what criteria is set for when y...
Local EMS calls in last night, code 3, cardiac arrest coming to an ER near me...well to me. Lady arrives, intubated, no IV access. Asystole on the monitor...all they got too. Family hasn't seen this person alive for over 2 hours. I pick up her ar...
ernurse2244 replied to fiestynurse's topic in Activism
I have re-read the article twice now and don't see any criticism of bush providing universal health insurance in Iraq...I only see praise for his doing that. It is only critical of his inaction on health insurance issues in the USA.
Hands on care works best for me. I try to make it a back rub, but a foot rub works well if turning would only increase the pain or is contraindicated. Soft, geniune verbal sympathy is needed too. Unless I am super busy, I never give a pain med and...
ernurse2244 replied to ensense's topic in Emergency
When I was younger, I worked nights, 7 on 7 off with one 8 hour shift in the middle. I must admit to being grouchy when I first woke up each afternoon, but I felt alert by the time I got to work. The 7 days off were wonderful! Now we work 2 or 3 o...