TraumaInTheSlot

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1. so Im fat, i cant be a flight nurse?

   TraumaInTheSlot replied to TraumaInTheSlot's topic in Flight

   ive just lost 20lbs in 6 weeks thanks to tiger schulmann's karate! thanks for your advice!

2. IV tips and tricks

   TraumaInTheSlot replied to kloock's topic in Emergency

   thats just it, its not done by sight, its done by feel. some veins are better than others. i think IVs hurt no matter where u out them. of course, those docs that put them on the inside of the wrist should be shot.

3. Telephone Advice

   TraumaInTheSlot replied to SLPorterRN's topic in Emergency

   teach the people who answer the phone "all the nurses are treating patients with emergencies right now, none have time to come to the phone. feel free to come down and we will take a look at it" i believe, that if you can make a phone call about it,...

4. Funny Sign In Slips

   TraumaInTheSlot replied to TraumaInTheSlot's topic in Emergency

   "SORE CHROAT" needless to say, he was from Brooklyn

5. Funny Sign In Slips

   TraumaInTheSlot posted a topic in Emergency

   Some ER's have patients who walk in to triage fill out a triage slip with name and chief complaint. they are always interesting due to misspellings and funny things that people write. care to share some funny ones with us? ill go first, one girl wrot...

6. Looking for online RN - BSN with no clinical componet.

   TraumaInTheSlot replied to txspadequeenRN's topic in Online Learning

   whats the tuition rates for these schools?

7. Advice on Obnoxious student...

   TraumaInTheSlot replied to jschut's topic in General Students

   WHY not grow a pair and confront the guy? i will never get how you can talk to the entire class, even post it on the internet, but i bet you never spoke to the student himself and voiced your concerns to him. seems like the logical choice, correct?

8. Phenergan Supp given to toddler; child dies

   TraumaInTheSlot replied to Mom23's topic in Emergency

   regarding the cutting of the supp, the supp is supposed to be cut lengthwise, from the point of "the bullet" down. if you cut them in half, the medicine isnt even. i hope this makes sense.

9. What's your craziest story of the ER

   TraumaInTheSlot replied to debo_lpnER's topic in Emergency

   just this weekend, we had a guy try and burn his way out of restraints by lighting them on fire. stupid lazy aides didnt search him.

10. Using Amelior computer system in the ED?

    TraumaInTheSlot replied to Dixielee's topic in Emergency

    i feel this way too sometimes. nursing requires too much thinking and sometimes i wish for a job that doesnt require me to use my brain. i want to be the guy who screws the toothpaste cap on the toothepaste tubes, or maybe i will put my face in dou...

11. Drug Seeker Stories

    TraumaInTheSlot replied to ER-RN2's topic in Emergency

    How "angelic" of you to be chastising your peers on this message board.

12. Ambulance pts in waiting room

    TraumaInTheSlot replied to gotaluvtheER's topic in Emergency

    we are lucky to not hold many patients. our patients get dispo'd and discharged fast, and get upstairs when admitted. you just make room. we have our own personal ct scanner(15 feet away) and we have the reading before the patient gets transported b...

13. Tncc

    TraumaInTheSlot replied to Vanfnp's topic in Emergency

    ABCDEFGHI thats all you have to know..lol (youll understand that after u take the class) try and take it at some teaching trauma center hospital that has a good reputation as a teaching facility. i just took it today. the test is hard. its a t...

14. Phenergan Supp given to toddler; child dies

    TraumaInTheSlot replied to Mom23's topic in Emergency

    Children tend to show signs of decompensating hypovolemic shock later than adults, when they go "off the deep end". Pals teaches you to prevent the arrest. it doesnt hurt to give the child a bolus or even two. any child with vomiting should be gi...

15. Ambulance pts in waiting room

    TraumaInTheSlot replied to gotaluvtheER's topic in Emergency

    we see anywhere from 100k to 125k per year. we have 9 big rooms that hold 2 stretchers each and 4 isolation rooms(which can hold 2 pts each when not isolated), and an asthma room that has about 10 chairs. thats just the adult emergency room. all of t...