ERRN1028

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1. ER or PICU?

   ERRN1028 replied to JennB03's topic in PICU

   JennB03- I left the ER when I moved away from my home town to a big inner city ER, in Memphis TN. I started working at the chartiy hosp here. The ER was crowded with patients on crack, drugs, magets, uncompliant seizure patients, gunshot wounds af...

2. ER or PICU?

   ERRN1028 replied to JennB03's topic in PICU

   I worked ER for 3 years (absolutely loved it) I started out as a new grad there, wouldn't trade that exp for anything. About 40% of the patients are not truely ER patients-does get abused alot (I worked community and charity hosps in the ED) Now I w...

3. PICU - What are your patient staff ratios?

   ERRN1028 replied to wendyw2's topic in PICU

   I work in the US, tennessee PICU, and we all have 2 ventilated patients to 1 nurse, it is very rare that I come in and don't have 2 patients as my assignment. The only patients who are 1:1 are fresh from surgery post-op heart surgeries or a child wh...

4. PICU vs. MICU/SICU/TNICU

   ERRN1028 replied to CarVsTree's topic in PICU

   short answer.... I worked w/ Adults for 3 years......Now I do PICU...Kids are way more challenging smaller, everything KG based. ...a lot more rewarding, I would recommend it ...way easier to start off in peds than go from adults to peds.... just my...

5. Blatant Nursing "No-No's"........what's your worst???

   ERRN1028 replied to anndoodle's topic in General Nursing

   I have read all of these and I can't even imagine........ sometimes I joke and say that its a wonder we function as nurses, with the little bit of knowledge we walk away from nursing school with. but my god, I pray for my safety one day when I...

6. Adult ICU to PICU

   ERRN1028 replied to NurseLeah's topic in PICU

   I went from 3 years of Adult Emergency Room to PICU, the ICU setting will probably be somewhat the same atmosphere for you,(vents, ICP monitors, mixing drips, lots of Invasive lines)... but I can tell you that from experience, children are a very di...

7. Hello - What state are you from?

   ERRN1028 replied to KimRN41514's topic in Rural

   North Mississippi, is 3 minutes away from memphis, TN I live on the STATE line, takes me less than 30 min to get to work. I love it ! :)

8. SHAVING & WAXING

   ERRN1028 replied to barkley's topic in Ob/Gyn

   i didn't say I had stench.....you took it the wrong way. I shave for other reasons...husbands preference.....just meaning that posters with opinions don't need to be really rude about it !

9. SHAVING & WAXING

   ERRN1028 replied to barkley's topic in Ob/Gyn

   I have shaved for 10 years now, and its not as SICK as you think. I think having one more place to have needless hair and stench is GROSS........Do you shave your legs...armpits...enough said. Please don't try and offend people ...all you have to s...

10. My name is Chim-Chim Apple Hiney

    ERRN1028 replied to kristylee's topic in Humor

    squeezit BubbleFace...... :chuckle

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

    ERRN1028 replied to JUSTYSMOM's topic in Emergency

    ~ My tongue itches........(hello do you think we have a miracle pill?) .....................................some people.

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

    ERRN1028 replied to JUSTYSMOM's topic in Emergency

    ~ My tongue itches........(hello do you think we have a miracle pill?) .....................................some people.

13. I need Ideas, for a project !

    ERRN1028 replied to ERRN1028's topic in PICU

    Thank you for the idea, that is a great idea and gives me a lot of room to work with it. I will definately submit that project and start working on it thank you so much !! :) :)

14. More Strange Baby Names

    ERRN1028 replied to RNLaborNurse4U's topic in Ob/Gyn

    I live in mississippi, and have seen them in new orleans !!! haha:chuckle

15. More Strange Baby Names

    ERRN1028 replied to RNLaborNurse4U's topic in Ob/Gyn

    Twin boys, Oranjello, and Lemonjello pronounced oron- jello/ le-mon-jello .....seriously, downtown new orleans Did mamma crave jello during pregnancy????:chuckle