Delete_Me_Please

Delete_Me_Please has 20 years experience.

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1. Verbal Abuse...I Gave What I Got...

   Delete_Me_Please replied to abundantjoy07's topic in Emergency

   Sounds like his only issue was wanting an IV to make drug abuse easier... That, and being an *******, but the two are usually mutually exclusive. I have a personal policy that has served me well so far in my sixteen years..l never argue with someone...

2. Common ER Meds

   Delete_Me_Please replied to ER-RN2's topic in Emergency

   Hell, the worst person I've encountered for spelling and pronunciation of drugs was my nursing pharmacology instructor. Meta-pro-awl is not a beta blocker.

3. Verbal Abuse...I Gave What I Got...

   Delete_Me_Please replied to abundantjoy07's topic in Emergency

   I wish... The last time I got punched, i called the cops, filed the reports, and said I'd be willing to testify and swear out whatever, so they arrested him. A few weeks later, I hadn't heard anything about the case, so I called e city attorneys of...

4. Common ER Meds

   Delete_Me_Please replied to ER-RN2's topic in Emergency

   Holy Jesus you people need to learn to spell the names of these drugs if you're going to be giving them.

5. Verbal Abuse...I Gave What I Got...

   Delete_Me_Please replied to abundantjoy07's topic in Emergency

   All the bills in the world about violence against nurses aren't going to change the fact that, as our departments get more and more overcrowded, and continue that trend as obamacare phases in, people are going to get more and more abusive and aggress...

6. CEN requirements?

   Delete_Me_Please replied to itsnowornever's topic in Emergency

   Unlike others here, I would encourage you to take it, provided that failure would not totally discourage you from ever taking it again. There is no substitute for seeing the type of questions and the format of them. Go for it... Buy the test prep b...

7. Recieving a patient from ER

   Delete_Me_Please replied to jkr2020788's topic in Emergency

   Amen to that. It sucks hard when the end of a doctors shift coincides with nursing shift change or scheduled med times. In regards to the OP, As an ER nurse, I found it helpful to ask myself what things, if any, I could do that would make the admi...

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

   Delete_Me_Please replied to JUSTYSMOM's topic in Emergency

   Ive been a paramedic for 16 years and an ER/ICU nurse for four, so I can relate...

9. On call pay

   Delete_Me_Please replied to ontheDLnurse's topic in Flight

   My understanding is that as long as you are afforded a reasonable amount of time to respond, you are not legally entitled to compensation for on call pay. One of my former employers was sued over that very thing and emerged victorious leaving us all...

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

    Delete_Me_Please replied to JUSTYSMOM's topic in Emergency

    Zippy cant help it; he's British. Their concepts of medicine, particularly emergency medicine, are about as wacked as their concept of rights, which is why our system of everyone having the right to be seen, having the right to ambulance services, e...

11. ER meds

    Delete_Me_Please replied to ketonesRN's topic in Emergency

    That's the difference between what the manufacturer recommends and what pharmacists know to be safe, thanks to clinical research and outcomes assessments. Rocephin, and Ancef for that matter, can be allowed to free flow in if necessary.

12. Not many Black/African American nurses working in the ICU's

    Delete_Me_Please replied to i-njoy-being-a-nurse's topic in CCU

    From what you're saying, the "are you an rn are you a student etc" questions probably originate in the fact that you make an effort to care about your patients as people, not just as bodies and numbers, like most ICU nurses do. Most ICU families are...

13. Is Corrections a good job for a new RN Grad???

    Delete_Me_Please replied to nursgwithcompassion's topic in Correctional

    Correctional nursing is an environment similar to the burn unit... You only have to work there for about a week before you know if it is right for you or not. Go for it, just dont put all your chips on it, as you may find it to be a terrible fit fo...

14. ER meds

    Delete_Me_Please replied to ketonesRN's topic in Emergency

    That's not necessarily true... A gram of rocephin or ancef can be run wide open, as each can safely infuse in under five minutes. There are some, however not many...

15. Not many Black/African American nurses working in the ICU's

    Delete_Me_Please replied to i-njoy-being-a-nurse's topic in CCU

    I'm white... Where is this "power" that I guess I'm supposed to hold? I worked in a unit where I was the only white nurse and saw maybe three white patients in the six months I was there. People did look at me like I didn't know what I was doing, s...