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    NR661 Predictor Exam questions

    Hi All, I'm going to be taking the NR661 post predictor exam in Chamberlain next week. I'm s cared to death because I would need roughly at 70% to pass the course. Are the questions in the predictor the same as the QBank ones? I've been doing okay in...
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    The passion to work is gone

    I work at a Level 1 Trauma Center's ED for the past 3 years going on 4. But for the past 8 months I've noticed I've been getting more irritated with the physicians whining and acting like divas/being more verbally abusive to me in general whenever I'...
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    Starting Clinicals in Chamberlain, had a question on what to do

    Thanks, tomorrow is going to be my first day. What should I be doing to get my E-Logs and Case Presentations ready weekly?
  4. So I'm starting Clinicals (hopefully) I'm having issues with the preceptor already on week 1. I'm going under the assumption I'll be able to start this week. Getting a preceptor was difficult, took me 8 months so I wasn't in class for a long time. N...
  5. I work in a Level 1 Trauma Center in a growing urban area. Our nurses can be separated into two groups: Newer nurses (Less than 3 years of ER/Nursing Experience) and Experienced Nurses. Our manager has this belief that that newer nurses should be e...
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    NTI 2016: Family Presence During Resuscitation?!

    When I was doing my TNCC it was taught to us that it was encouraged to give the family the option to be present during resuscitation attempts. And in my practice we always gave the family the option. Families that took that opportunity were very grat...
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    Are You Cut Out to be an Emergency Department (ED) Nurse?

    Oh man I'm almost the complete opposite of this, but I still chose to work in an ED of a level 1 trauma center. I'm pretty much reserved, don't mind sitting around to an extent,and the opposite of an adrenaline junkie. Though I have the sarcastic wit...
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    ER Wishlist Items!

    Go the next best thing, Valium Gas in the ambulance bays and psych holding areas. It worked in Moscow, though a bit too effectively.
  9. Hi everyone, Back again so it's been like 7 Months working at the Level 1 Trauma Center and basically now I've been an ER Nurse for nearly 14 months now. I like working in the higher acuity areas as part of the reason I transferred to the ER (besides...
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    Moved to a new ER, now I don't feel like I'm a real ER nurse anymore

    Thanks for the encouragement everyone, there was a slight ray of hope the other week. I happen to work in the same hospital as my mother does but she's in a different department. I took care of a patient that ended up going to the OR during his stay ...
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    Moved to a new ER, now I don't feel like I'm a real ER nurse anymore

    I'm going to tough it out for now. But damn I get so nervous when I go there.
  12. Vent alarm (you may wish to silence due to high pressure): I went from a small community hospital ER after 8 months to a level 1 Trauma center since it was a closer commute and allowed for greater career growth. My coworkers at the smaller hospital a...
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    Areas of nursing you would NOT like?

    Pediatrics and Obstetrics. I'm a guy so it feels weird for me. Yet OB was the class I had the best grades in during my nursing school days.
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    Pain Seekers

    I sometimes feel how you do OP but I try to be as professional as possible. If the patient is asking for pain medication, I will relay their concerns to the primary and nothing more. If both the primary and me both know the patient is a pain seeker, ...
  15. A friend and myself moved to a new hospital in the emergency dept. He came from a large university hospital ER and I came from a very small community hospital ER both of us had less than a year of ER experience before moving to this hospital. This ho...