sbnurse04

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1. Police Killed Our Patient

   sbnurse04 replied to Meerkat's topic in General Nursing

   As a RN I'm filled with empathy, but as a police officer's wife I undrstand the split second descisions that the officers have to make every day. As someone already said, they don't have a psych eval team available to decide if the person who is thr...

2. What was the MOST ridiculous thing a patient came to the ER for?

   sbnurse04 replied to JUSTYSMOM's topic in Emergency

   I had a patient today come in with the primary complaint of r knee arthritis, and also told us that she needed some shampoo so that she could wash her hair. When gave her our lovely $50 shampoo, and she said, oh, I can't use that I'm allergic.....WE ...

3. how much experience did you have before becoming an ER nurse?

   sbnurse04 replied to liljsmom02's topic in Emergency

   I'm an ER Nurse in a Level 1 Trauma Center, and like you in Nursing School, The ER was the rotation I liked the best. I started in ER right out of school and did OK, there were times that I felt like I didn't know enough, but the other RNs were grea...

4. Feeling sick to my stomach

   sbnurse04 replied to RN123456789's topic in NCLEX

   I take my NCLEx Friday, July 2. Everybody that I have talked to think they have done awful when they leave, and then have passed. I have a classmate that only had to take 75 questions, he RELLY thought he had failed, but he passed. I als have cla...

5. Question about Emergency Techs

   sbnurse04 replied to tmiller027's topic in Emergency

   I just graduated nursing school. I'm currently working in an ER. While in school O worked as an ER Tech, and I believe it helped a great deal. You see everything, which helps you with your classroom stuff, and most of the time if the staff knows y...

6. 8:1 ratios in the ER???

   sbnurse04 replied to jaimealmostRN's topic in Emergency

   I work in a level 1 trauma center, and up until recently the nurses have had usually 4 rooms each, with each room having the capability of two pt. Now, because of staffing situations the nurses are having an average of 6 rooms, to care for a total o...

7. GN orientiations to ER's

   sbnurse04 replied to MEME_BSN's topic in Emergency

   I just graduated from nursing school in may of this year, I'm going into an ER of a Level One trauma center. We are required to participate in a new grad program that consists of a critical care class, working on several floors in the hospital for a...