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  1. How often do you get psych pt self walk ins

    thanks for the responses and also thnks for being patient with my stupid questions. i appreciate it.
  2. How often do you get psych patients who bring themselves into the er.... is it a common occurance or are they mostly brought in by someone else or by authorities? What is the percentage of self walkins vs having someone(police/abulance/family member/...
  3. Just when you thought you'd heard it all

    uhh weird
  4. What is considered a large hospital??

    The big hospital in the inner city has 950+ beds and is a teaching hospital.There's also a bunch of smaller community hospitals in suburban areas with about 250- 400 beds in each hospital. There's also a children's hospital in the city that has about...
  5. Involving family members and patient confidentiality

    Thanks i was asking in general and also because of personal experience. Hmm i have never ever signed a consent(or even been asked to sign one) in the hospital. They've always just gone ahead and blabbed any info that i've said onto a family member. ...
  6. Do you bag your bodies naked?

    So when a patient passes away are the sheets and gowns etc washed and then re used or are they thrown out? It's kind of gross if your a patient and to think that someone could have died in the gown your wearing or the sheets your using... but then ag...
  7. Why did you pick your username?

    I was going to go with orangatun but decided chimpanzee was better. I just felt like having a weird and random monkey username.
  8. parents please talk to your teens

    I know this is an old thread but i just wanted to add this. When i was in highschool.... about grade 10 so around 16 years old i went to a party with friends from school in a rough part of town. We went all out, we predrank and rented a limo to get ...
  9. Favorite Dr or Nurse Name

    Anyone with kids... Dr. McQueen Payne is quite a common last name. I've known a few people with that surname... no one in the medical field though.
  10. Favorite Dr or Nurse Name

    Dr. Rainbow
  11. Dr Jokes

    Dr Jokes, A man comes into the ER and yells, "My wife's going to have her baby in the cab!" I grabbed my stuff, rushed out to the cab, lifted the lady's dress, and began to take off her underwear. Suddenly I noticed that there were several cabs, and ...
  12. Busiest Time For The ER

    Do you get a lot of firecracker related injuries on halloween and new years or is it mainly just drunks on those holidays/events... or same old?
  13. Busiest Time For The ER

    This is a completely random question coming from someone who's not even in nursing school yet so forgive me if this is a dumb question. I've just always wondered this. What is the busiest time in the ER? I heard that Mondays and weekends are busy bu...
  14. Involving family members and patient confidentiality

    Thank your for your response Davey Do. I am aware that doctors and other health providers can with hold information from a patient if they believe it will have an impact on their health/well being. I am also aware that as a patient i can request my ...
  15. I'm just wondering from a patient point of view, when does it cross the line to involve family members. I've been in psychiatric wards before and as a patient i've had both doctors and nurses disclose information to family members without my permiss...