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  1. Current US culture, the regulatory environment (CMS and JCAHO) and the healthcare industry itself have created an...
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    Forum: General Nursing Discussion
  2. Our hospital has been trying to increase the overall morale of the hospital by meet and greets for other floors with ER...
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    Forum: Emergency Nursing
  3. ER NURSES......... Feel good about what you do. - Written by an ER MD. This is a discussion on ER nurses, read this! in...
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    Forum: Nurses Rock
  4. Haven't read all of this, not sure if this addressed, but let me ease your fears ladies. Male nurses most likely found in...
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    Forum: General Nursing Discussion
  5. A few things I have learned re: IV starts: A deeper vein is usually less prone to "blowing" than a more surface (more...
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    Forum: General Nursing Discussion
  6. You have much to learn. Hope your dad is feeling better.
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    Forum: Emergency Nursing
  7. I hate having nurses as patients ;)
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    Forum: General Nursing Discussion
  8. First, you're a nursing student, not a nurse. You will likely never have an ED rotation during your education. You don't...
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    Forum: Emergency Nursing
  9. 43 y/o male, bilateral knee pain. Pt is 420 lbs. Not a doc, but a 5 year old could diagnose this...anyway, here's the...
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    Forum: Emergency Nursing
  10. We allow patients to sign waivers in radiology for pregnancy tests. As a woman, I think that's appropriate and respectful....
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    Forum: Emergency Nursing
  11. I am as anti-fat as I am anti-anorexia/bulimia, anti-smoking and anti-riding a donorcycle without a helmut, anti-unprotected...
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    Forum: General Nursing Discussion
  12. Sadly I bet more than half the people that are doing this are the ones that WE are paying for to go in and get their stuff...
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    Forum: Emergency Nursing
  13. And additional fees for complaining about the wait!
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    Forum: Emergency Nursing
  14. With an extra added surcharge for improper use of resources !
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    Forum: Emergency Nursing
  15. Maybe the ER nurse was also "clearly bored," so no harm, no foul. ;)
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    Forum: Emergency Nursing
  16. This is why I love having a fast track area in my ER, because if I heard a complaint about the "wait" from someone in the...
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    Forum: Emergency Nursing
  17. Must keep mouth shut. Must keep mouth shut.......
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    Forum: Emergency Nursing
  18. I'm sorry but only 6 hours, that's not an exceptionally long wait. Glad your home now and mom is taken care of.
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  19. Sending positive vibes to you and your moms. They do sell hand cranks for cell-phones in case your battery does die on you,...
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    Forum: Emergency Nursing
  20. Well, aren't you just a peach? You're welcome.
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    Forum: Emergency Nursing
  21. This.... (Don't let the idiots get you down. Shrug them off. They'll be back next week...)
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    Forum: Emergency Nursing
  22. I did bite my tongue once. A very rude visitor on the psych ward was ready to leave the unit. He tried to leave but was...
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    Forum: Emergency Nursing
  23. Alright, so I need to vent (I seem to need to do this a lot, maybe I shouldn't work every day). EMS brings me a 93 year old...
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    Forum: Emergency Nursing
  24. I don't think I'm condoning a nurse patient ratio of 1:20 or 1:50.I am quite the contrary. The type of patient's that are in...
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    Forum: Emergency Nursing
  25. Hey, guess what? I will still maintain my moral outrage. Know why? Because I care about people. Sure, there are two sides...
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    Forum: Emergency Nursing
  26. It seems like it's different for different people. Some nurses can work in the ED environment year after year and maintain...
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    Forum: Emergency Nursing
  27. Haaaaaahaaa! I had an x-ray tech roll a portable, broke my big right toe, ed docs thought this was hilarious and wanted to...
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    Forum: Emergency Nursing
  28. Ouch!! Note to self: Always hit wall with open hand, not fist! Isn't this job sooooo rewarding :)
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  29. Kids, no doubt. I'm terrible with kids. I can handle doing anything on them.. foley, IV, etc. That doesn't matter. However,...
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  30. That's the worst! The situation is terrible... and when they throw in "my sister is a pharmacist" or other such healthcare...
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  31. Crazy.
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  32. Least favourite patients: The two patients whom I charged with assault this year while trying to look after them (I am 5"3...
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    Forum: Emergency Nursing
  33. You will come out of this experience having learned far more than you ever dreamed about interpersonal communication. :) ...
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    Forum: Emergency Nursing
  34. From your first post, I detected a lot of judgment based on socioeconomic status, but maybe I was just inferring it. ...
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    Forum: Emergency Nursing
  35. Lol I would think the last one would be a line of smaller women saying "Can you help me put the pt in bed" and "Can you help...
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    Forum: Men in Nursing