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  1. Question about an accident

    Personally, I would have at least checked for a pulse to ensure the respirations you described weren't true respirations and not agonal respirations as she died, but as previously stated, with such a long response time her prognosis was not good. W...
  2. tension between EMT and LTC nurses?

    All I have to say is AMEN. oh and, if you're in my firehouse, it's my remote control!! hahaha
  3. How do you feel about ADN nurses?

    I think this depends on the program and where the rotations were held. I went to a 4 year program and was given a whole year of critical care classroom and clinical time that most local ASN programs do not get. I feel that after seeing new grads fr...
  4. Nursing student just got a DUI

    and Here it is, You have officially pissed of someone who was hit by a drunk driver while driving home from working in the ER one night. What happened? The guy had a "couple of beers", drove himself home, crossed the double yellow line, and hit me ...
  5. it doesn't matter what kind of nurse you are.

    So If you were born in 1982 such as I was, and I just graduated this past year from my 4 year BSN, which I entered right out of high schoool, did you go to college when you were 10 so you could complete your Masters in Education, then your CRNA, and...
  6. any well-equipped ED's out there?

    I work at Suburban Hospital in Bethesda MD, and we occasionally have problems locating a monitor cable or something, but I have to say we are very well stocked. We have 8 pixus stations with supplies, plus our 2 med pixus stations. We also have it...
  7. Can anyone help?

    I disagree with this statement. Much of nursing is evidenced based practice. We utilize research for basing our standards of practice, and many many units have a process where you can change unit based standards of practice by proposing the change ...
  8. Out with "Nurse" In with...?

    Going through school I was called the "Murse" by the females in my class. It, to them, qualified the fact that I was the male nursing student, and became a long lasting joke, such as all the Focker comments after meet the parents came out. I'm not ...
  9. I still can't believe that after all this, and what people have been telling you, that you are talking about your personal life, i.e. the car accident and your boyfriend, in this letter. It's unprofessional. You made a huge error which you could lo...
  10. Pulseless patients: shock or drugs

    Ok, i just have to point this out, I never once threw out credentials, or letters behind my name... you just said "People need to get over themselves...I don't care what abbreviations you have behind your name" yet you are the one who listed this: "...
  11. Pulseless patients: shock or drugs

    thank you 11, I am definately not condoning any RN taking an ACLS course and being able to call themselves a paramedic. I do, however, feel that it's possible for experienced critical care RN's to become great medics through an abridged paramedic cou...
  12. anyone ever seen this in a full arrest?

    Treat the patient, not the monitor...Was there a pulse? If not, then i would assume the proper procedures were followed. If all that was being treated was the monitor, then shame on all practitioners involved. To answer your question however, I have...
  13. Experiences of the male nursing student

    Now I'm going to throw something out there that might stir the pot a little..but... At my university, the only male nursing instructors we had were gay. I have no issues with people's choice of sexual orientation; however I feel that with homosexual...
  14. CPR after rigor mortis

    why waste your time bagging if the air is going into the lungs and not being circulated? your rationale makes no sense.
  15. ER the T.V. Show

    i was a little pissed off about the comment made "she's just the nurse, maybe she doesn't know" in relation to the patient seeing the nurse smile and not the doctor, and how the lack of a smile related to her condition. And personally i think the wh...