MissERN

MissERN has 3 years experience and specializes in ED.

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1. Do you have a nurse manager dedicated to the ED?

   MissERN posted a topic in Emergency

   Hi! My question is this: Do you have a nurse manager that is dedicated solely to the ED, or is he/she also managing other departments? I feel that the ED is a department that needs a manager who can dedicate his or her time completely to the ever ...

2. Funny & Cute Things Our Demented Patients Say

   MissERN replied to TheCommuter's topic in Geriatric

   My grandmother had severe dementia prior to passing away, but she ALWAYS laughed about everything. Last week I had a patient that reminded me so much of her. She presented to the ED after a syncopal episode. She was not thrilled about my using a f...

3. ER VS ICU NURSING

   MissERN replied to Johnny1414's topic in Emergency

   Johnny1414, Your peers are sadly mistaken. You must realize that, generally speaking, in the ED you are starting from scratch. Your patients will arrive with nothing, and often they need many intervetions quickly, and more times than not you get mu...

4. Starting as an ER Tech, what do you nurses want from me?

   MissERN replied to NurseMaybeBaby's topic in Emergency

   First of all I want to congratulate you! Secondly, you will NEVER go wrong by bringing King Cake, just as long as you don't make the one who gets the baby actually bake the next one! :) (I'm kidding, of course :) I hope you love your job in the E...

5. How do you manage staffing in the ER?

   MissERN replied to Joe NightingMale's topic in Emergency

   The number of nurses we have on a day to day basis is fixed, despite the number of patients we have in the department. From 1a-9a we have 4 nurses, and then another comes on at 0900. At 1000 we get another nurse for the main ED, and we also have a...

6. Merry Christmas to the nurses who will be working today

   MissERN replied to nicenurselpn's topic in General Nursing

   Hey Tweety, Would you please bring me some takeout Chinese when you get yours?!?! I couldn't find anything open when I got off, so I got frozen pizza from Walgreens...I think I'd have been better going to bed hungry!! :) Merry Christmas!

7. Passed CEN!!

   MissERN replied to murphyle's topic in Emergency

   Congratulations to you! Have you signed your name with CEN behind it yet?!?!

8. Nurse-initiated interventions

   MissERN replied to flyingchange's topic in General Nursing

   Absolutely time for a rapid response! Sat dropping to 85% and heart rate of 180 on a post op femur fracture...I'm definitely thinking PE, and I'm definitely giving more oxygen! In a situation such as this by the time you get an order for more oxygen...

9. Smelly question

   MissERN replied to allie1230's topic in General Nursing

   I find it incredibly helpful to wear a soft scented lotion on my upper arms. It has saved me from wretching many times when cleaning someone. I am able to "sniff my arms" when I feel that I am about to gag. And it is definitely not as noticeable a...

10. ER speedbump

    MissERN replied to t.houck's topic in General Nursing

    I would also like to encourage you to continue on with your plan of working in the ED! Before I started nursing school I worked in a phycisicans office, and one day I almost passed out while watching an NP suture, and it just terrified me that I wou...

11. And What Did YOU eat today?

    MissERN replied to Been there,done that's topic in General Nursing

    There are so many days that I realize on my way home from work that the last thing I had to drink was 14 hours ago when I brushed my teeth that morning. Food? Who has time for that? Sad, isn't it?!? I feel your pain!

12. 1st Day Off exhaustion

    MissERN replied to Student2Registered's topic in General Nursing

    I work 6 day stretches (12 hrs) and then get 8 days off. However, it doesn't take me a day to get over it...it takes 2!!!! Love my days off though!

13. Have you been assaulted by a patient?

    MissERN replied to CrabbyPatty's topic in Relations

    I work ER and was bitten a couple of months ago. The bite broke the skin...this guy would NOT let go despite multiple people attempting to restrain him. You better believe I pressed charges! He knew exactly what he was doing. I'm very fair skinne...

14. Giving thanks

    MissERN replied to ramkatral's topic in General Nursing

    I agree with Batman! I appreciate what you do immensely! I can only imagine that the conditions in which you provide care are often less than desirable. Thank you for your thanks!! :)

15. Help with understanding the capillary action of glucometers

    MissERN replied to Kitty Hawk's topic in General Nursing

    Perhaps you also might be able to get some information from the manufacturer. I know that when we switched to new glucometers we had an inservice and they actually instructed us to place the test strip on the droplet of blood, and hold it on the fin...