For background, I'm a RN in the ED of a level 1 trauma center (CEN/CCRN/TCRN plus some other stuff that doesn't make it on my signature block) but have a question that none of our docs can answer and there isn't a cardiologist in the department right...
A couple nights ago I was talking with a friend who's one of the instructors in the local college's EMS education program and they said it would be nice if I was to speak in class as a guest about EMS from an ED nurse's perspective and what they coul...
Cohiba replied to frenchtoastwaffles's topic in General Students
Get drunk, sleep until whenever you wake up vs being tied to an alarm clock, turn 5 y/o again (eg have sugary and nutrition-free cereal for breakfast, then go to McD's for lunch), climb a tree, take a long afternoon nap in a hammock under the trees i...
Not ER-specific, but anything by Dr Atul Gawande is marvelous to read, as is Mary Roach's book "Stiff", and anything nonfiction by Bill Bass (founder of the Anthropological Research Facility at the University of Tennessee/Knoxville--aka the Body Farm...
Cohiba replied to OrganizedChaos's topic in Emergency
A couple of the EMS agencies serving the ED where I work will say "this patient is triage appropriate" when calling report over the radio and almost universally that patient will be taken to the waiting room like everyone else with a non-urgent compl...