sweetER

sweetER specializes in ER.

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1. CA new grad RN wants to volunteer in Alabama at disaster sites

   sweetER replied to NewGradRN10's topic in General Nursing

   I am not sure how it is in Alabama, but I work in N. Ga near Ringgold where there was an EF-4 and they are turning volunteers away , and are not allowing nurses to help unless they are also an EMT or paramedic with one of the EMS services.

2. If you love your job, what is your speciality?

   sweetER replied to PAERRN20's topic in General Nursing

   ER! Love!!!

3. Med Surg or ER for New Grad

   sweetER replied to BABYJADE06's topic in Career Support

   I graduated in December and started my first nursing job at a level 2 trauma center in February. I knew I wanted ER and went after it, and that was the best thing I could have done for myself because I LOVE my job. My coworkers are amazing, my precep...

4. Trauma Room Staffing (not ratios...)

   sweetER replied to beepeadoo's topic in Emergency

   In our ER, we have four single-bed trauma/resus rooms. Two of them are assigned to one team of nurses (usually start out the day with 2 and get a 3rd nurse around 9am-11am) and the other two rooms are assigned to another team of nurses. Both teams al...

5. How long until you were pretty good at IV starts?

   sweetER posted a topic in Emergency

   I am a new grad in ER, and have been on orientation for about two months. I got my required number of IV starts for checkoff purposes pretty quickly, half of which my preceptor coached me through, and now I can't seem to hit a sewer pipe with a 24g. ...

6. About to graduate with no hospital employment experience

   sweetER replied to AJPV's topic in General Nursing

   Definitely keep trying to land a tech job. I got one just six months before graduation, and because of that, got an RN job (at another hospital) exactly where I wanted - ER- before taking boards. Many of my classmates are still looking for jobs. It h...

7. Are you a "Bonified" Nurse?

   sweetER replied to gentlegiver's topic in General Nursing

   The hospital that I teched at before getting my RN had a color coded policy and you STILL had to tell people who you were. Patients still would misidentify me as their nurse, managers of other floors that I floated to would ask if I was the float nur...

8. Temps in the ER

   sweetER replied to LegzRN's topic in Emergency

   Same as you! We check at triage and then only recheck if it was abnormal. Our educator doesn't seem to mind.

9. Should new grads always start on a med/surg floor?

   sweetER replied to swaffy8's topic in General Nursing

   No. Life is too short to spend any of it working somewhere you won't enjoy (unless there's no other options). I knew I wanted ER after graduation, so I turned down offers for other units and persistently went after the ER job I wanted. I got it and c...

10. UAB FNP financial aid/cost?

    sweetER replied to sweetER's topic in Post Graduate

    Thanks so much! That does help answer part of my question! :)

11. ER?

    sweetER replied to droider's topic in Emergency

    I'm a new grad in ER, but I love it so, so much. The people I work with are amazing- I've never been anywhere with so much teamwork and camaraderie amongst the entire department (dr's, nurses, techs, everyone). I love that even as a new nurse, I can ...

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

    sweetER replied to NurseMaybeBaby's topic in Emergency

    I'm a new nurse in ER, and our ER doesn't use a lot of techs, but one thing I would LOVE is if every tech who walked a chest pain patient to their room from triage would go ahead and put them on the monitor for me instead of coming to me and telling ...

13. Hypotension question

    sweetER replied to SNIXRN's topic in General Nursing

    I guess I should clarify. I agree with what everybody else said about assessing your patient and taking into consideration their PMH when administering a bolus. In my ER, though, we run boluses at 999mL/HR 99% of the time - but just because it's goin...

14. Hypotension question

    sweetER replied to SNIXRN's topic in General Nursing

    Bolus on a pump = 999mL/hr.

15. Is nursing "care" a thing of the past?

    sweetER replied to AnneBlunnRN's topic in General Nursing

    Wow. I think targeting BSN nurses is really uncalled for. I am a BSN nurse, but the nurses I work with are about 70% ADN because we have an ADN program in town where most of them went. I respect them immensely, and I don't view either one of us as be...