Skylar86

Skylar86

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About Skylar86

Skylar86 specializes in Emergency.


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  1. forced to work when sick?

    Hey everyone, I work in a busy emergency department. Over the past few months we've been short staffed and over capacity (almost daily). Anyways, I felt unwell with niggling abdominal pain when I woke up this morning but not to the point where I felt...
  2. invasive procedures during comfort cares?

    I suppose I should have used a different title for this thread. Unnecessary is more the word I was looking for rather than invasive. I realise nothing is going to be distressing for someone who already has a gcs of 3 however the time it would take to...
  3. Hey team, I'm a fairly new nurse who works in a busy adult emerg dept. A few days ago i was working in the acute area (ratio of 1:6). During my shift I had a patient (80F, multiple comorbidities) be transferred from resus to one of my side rooms. She...
  4. NCLEX content- blood values

    I am a New Zealand trained RN and have been working in emerg for 3 years. I am currently going through the NNAS process to be eligible to write the NCLEX and have been using Uworld as my study guide. I am hoping to move to Saskatchewan, Canada and wo...
  5. Giving O2 without an order??

    im not sure what your policy includes but in the emergency department that i work at we have ''standing orders''. We can give paracetamol (tylenol), oxygen and normal saline without it being charted... we just need to get it charted/signed at some st...
  6. Scrubs in the Emergency Department

    wow... skirts/stockings? i cant imagine!!! all of the nurses wear light colored blue scrubs and the doctors wear navy blue scrubs. We have our own change room and are actually not allowed to wear our scrubs out of the department. We are also not allo...
  7. You Know You're A Nurse If...

    on days off when someone asks you what time it is and instead of looking at your wrist you look at your chest/hip for your fob watch...
  8. Why drug someone who does'nt want to be drugged?

    you realize that as a patient you have the right to refuse right? why didnt you refuse the ms?
  9. Have been in the ER for 3 hrs now....

    if the OP is a student.....that explains everything!
  10. Great moments in bad judgement

    13y/o boy placed 30 little magnetic balls into his urethra. he was able to pee ("shoot") the first one out and thought that by putting in more he could make his penis into a machine gun? Ended up having to tell his mum when he was only able to urinat...
  11. jehovahs witness- refusing to..

    Hi everyone. On my last shift I came across an interesting situation. I had a 67y/o man come in with chest pain who spoke very little English (I can't remember exactly where he was from). Long story short, it was very difficult to obtain consent fro...
  12. What do you hate seeing the MOST in the ER!?

    oh forgot to mention! I work in a university/student town.... the amount of students we get during exam week is really ridiculous. They come in the morning before their exam with ''abdo pain'' and want to leave almost right after being asessed... but...
  13. What do you hate seeing the MOST in the ER!?

    the patients that come in because they forgot to fill their prescription at their GP and its now the weekend... the patients that have had a cough/leg pain/sore whatever for MONTHS and decide that TODAY IS THE DAY that they will come to the emergency...
  14. Panic setting in as start date nears.....

    I am a new grad (also graduated december 2011) and got a job right away in the ER. If we didn't have enough in common.... i only had 6 weeks orientation as well! I was nervous at first.. i thought maybe I would need a longer orientation... but to be ...
  15. did I do the right thing?

    I am a newgrad nurse. I've been working in a busy ED for two months now and absolutely love it and I couldn't be happier. Unfortunately this morning I came across a ''situation'' and am not sure if I dealt with it in the right way. This morning I sta...