kateb

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1. What not to say / do while you are in the ER...

   kateb replied to ER-RN2's topic in Emergency

   in response to ER RN2.. I love it when you're going to give the shot of rocephin and these big boys ask you to turn your back while they drop their pants....uhhhhh...hello, if you would have kept your pants up before.....I wouldn't have to turn my ba...

2. 10/10 pain..venting!

   kateb replied to NYCRN16's topic in Emergency

   there is no doubt that even after many years of experience with seekers, or frequent flyers, that you become jaded,hopefully one does not lose their compassion...I am sure there is not one of us who, on a extremely busy shift when half the staff has ...

3. 10/10 pain..venting!

   kateb replied to NYCRN16's topic in Emergency

   in response to Z'splaya....timuptom is soooooo on the money....after so many years you gain the experience of not only vitals at triage, but being able to "read" people very well....not only through verbalization, but body language, the looks in thei...

4. 10/10 pain..venting!

   kateb replied to NYCRN16's topic in Emergency

   in reply to Frances LaMay, oh I have had the wonderful pleasure of being told "you can't be feeling that much pain" in regards to a bulging lumbar disc L4 L5, L5 S1....that is until the surgery (after 1 year of "conservative treatment" that was nec...

5. 10/10 pain..venting!

   kateb replied to NYCRN16's topic in Emergency

   didn't mean to sound insensitive, of course those with a chronic situation have a intolerance to many meds that would set a horse on their behind, and have breakthrough pain....and any good ED nurse knows the details of that particular patient if the...

6. 10/10 pain..venting!

   kateb replied to NYCRN16's topic in Emergency

   one clue whether a patient is "seeking" as we put it in our ED, is when they are "allergic" to every pain med except oxycontin or morphine, and when they know that "ketorolac" is Toradol and that "it ain't a narcotic"....hmmmmm someone doing their ho...

7. 10/10 pain..venting!

   kateb replied to NYCRN16's topic in Emergency

   having been a ER nurse for 15 years, I also thought one would have to be writhing in pain to rate the 10/10 scale.. That is until I blew 3 discs that took a year to get fixed. What use to be intolerable pain at 5/10 became the norm...when I was a 10...