gamegirlkimmy

gamegirlkimmy has 12 years experience and specializes in Emergency, management.

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1. Epi-Pen Auto Injector

   gamegirlkimmy replied to mwboswell's topic in Emergency

   Several Nurses have accidentally injected themselves in the thumb with our epi pen. Be careful!

2. Need Clever award ideas for ED Nurses

   gamegirlkimmy replied to gamegirlkimmy's topic in Emergency

   Great Ideas! Thanks all!

3. Need Clever award ideas for ED Nurses

   gamegirlkimmy replied to gamegirlkimmy's topic in Emergency

   Awesome ideas! Thanks

4. Need Clever award ideas for ED Nurses

   gamegirlkimmy posted a topic in Emergency

   Hi there! I am tring to come up with activities for ED nurses week. We thought it would be fun to nominate our fellow nurses for awards. We need more categories with some funny names for nursing awards. So far we have come up with: HAZMAT Award (Most...

5. patient assignments and continuity of care

   gamegirlkimmy posted a topic in Emergency

   How does your ED assign patients? We have recently went from room assignments to assigning patients by acuity. The idea was so you keep your patient throughout thier stay and avoid hand offs. Sounds great but the charge nurses are having a hard ti...

6. Timely documentation

   gamegirlkimmy posted a topic in Management

   I know the importance of Real Time documentation and the impact it has on patient safety. I have a nurse in my department that is always piling up charts and documenting "when she gets time". The content and format of her documentation is very deta...

7. physician compliance

   gamegirlkimmy replied to joamy2's topic in Management

   Seems like much of the time the physician's are the most resistant to following policy. Many times they are not updated on ever changing policies and documentation requirements. In any case they must still be held accountable for non compliance. We ...

8. What was the MOST ridiculous thing a patient came to the ER for?

   gamegirlkimmy replied to JUSTYSMOM's topic in Emergency

   :rotfl: :rotfl: A frequent flyer came by ambulance for a mosquito bite! It was difficult not to laugh at her, we treated her with benadryl.

9. What makes a good nurse?

   gamegirlkimmy replied to Mail4Tammy's topic in Career Support

   I believe the most important quality is compassion. No matter how good your skills and how much knowledge you have, without compassion for your patients you will not make a "Good Nurse" I also believe you need to be somewhat aggressive, especially w...

10. Alta Bates in SF or Oakland

    gamegirlkimmy replied to peaceful's topic in California

    Have you considered Kaiser, benefits are great and things have really changed for the better over the last few years. Patient service and satisfaction is at an all time high and personally they have been very supportive of my goals and ideas. I hav...

11. ER RN salary

    gamegirlkimmy replied to newfloridaRN's topic in Emergency

    You want to make good money in nursing come to California! Our hospital starts new grads at 35.00+ an hour. Shift differential is 3.53 for pm shift and over 6 for night shift. Seasoned nurses working per diem make 50.00+ hourly. The union for RNs ...

12. Financial incentives for meeting budgets?

    gamegirlkimmy replied to big sweet life's topic in Management

    I am expecting my bonus this week. Our bonus is based on meeting the organizational goals which are different every year. Patient satisfaction, various budget issues, and HR were 2004 goals. I am not sure how much it will be yet but am excited to ...

13. Scheduling for ER Nurses

    gamegirlkimmy replied to EstherdH's topic in Emergency

    My ER has what I consider to be a huge number of new graduate RNs. If self scheduling were done my fear would be that there wouldn't be enough seasoned nurses to support all the new grads. Union contracts here in California, (CNA) for RNs, could al...

14. MD/nurse team in ER triage to improve flow

    gamegirlkimmy posted a topic in Management

    I have been reading alot of articles about how having an MD in triage increases the flow in the ER. The article states that most ERs overcrowd due to each step being dependent on the previous i.e. triage, registration, waiting room, rooming, MD eval,...

15. Using MDs in triage

    gamegirlkimmy posted a topic in Emergency

    I have been reading alot of articles about how having an MD in triage increases the flow in the ER. The article states that most ERs overcrowd due to each step being dependent on the previous i.e. triage, registration, waiting room, rooming, MD eval...