ERnights

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1. Medicaid. Is it being abused?

   ERnights replied to SWFlorida's topic in Emergency

   I again feel the need to respond. This thread was initially started in the ED forum for us to discuss what we percieved as potential abuses. I think most experienced ED nurses here would have something to share regarding this subject. What I find...

2. Medicaid. Is it being abused?

   ERnights replied to SWFlorida's topic in Emergency

   I need to add something here again. At the ED where I work, people do not get treated differently based on the insurance or lack of. While I stand by my claims that there are many people on medicaid that appear to be abusing the system, this doesn'...

3. Medicaid. Is it being abused?

   ERnights replied to SWFlorida's topic in Emergency

   It most certainly is appropriate for my to be asking you if you smoke. It is my business the moment you come to our ED requesting whatever it is you may need. No I'm not going to defer this to the Doc. Not everyone that shows up at triage can be ...

4. welcome to the hilton...please dont forget to tip your waitress

   ERnights replied to thisnurse's topic in General Nursing

   The ER I work at only allows 1 visitor per pt, and sometimes that's too much. Last month we had a distraught pt brought in by EMS who had just witnessed their spouse having killed themselves. Needless to say the whole ER could hear what this poor p...

5. What's you highest...?

   ERnights replied to talaxandra's topic in General Nursing

   The other night an elderly nursing home pt who was rescusitated in the ED and sent up to the ICU had a wbc of 94. Too unstable for surgery for ? perf. No one to make decisions for them except very elderly family who had no clue. The rest of their...