zaleah

zaleah

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About zaleah

er nurse--always was, always will be

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  1. ER Nurses. Read This!

    Very old letter, should be poster size, laminated and in everyone's waiting room!!
  2. Final grade of high school with no idea what I wanted to do other then being a Vet, but I failed physics and they would not take me...... My best friend was filling out an app for nursing school at a technical college, I said "give me one of those an...
  3. charge nurse role

    Our institution has brought in this new 'rotating role' to our department the CCL. Essentially the clinical care leader is the charge nurse. One is expected to be a leader, mentor, educator and problem solver. The kicker is that is an '18 month rotat...
  4. ER must haves

    Pen behind my ear, stethescope looped in my ties for my scrubs, hemostats on my thigh with tape and a tourniquit, and my trauma shears tuck int he waist band of my scrubs on the left side. (I can't stand anything around my neck) I even reach for the...
  5. clinical care leading

    Our institution has brought in this new 'role' to our department. Essentially the clinical care leader is the charge nurse. One is expected to be a leader, mentor, educator and problem solver. The kicker is that is an '18 month rotating position' ...
  6. Question for night shifters

    I too have always been a night owl....worked nights for 22 odd years now, as a waitress in a bar--not getting home til 3, then onto nursing, where I only work nights. On my days off I do try to switch, as you are right you have to be awake during t...
  7. med errors

    Very interesting thread going in the general discussion, a med error caused a death and the nurse that hung the med is looking for support or others... she/he states that 7,000 med errors occur every year....I think it is higher then this. Let's offe...
  8. I too have made errors. In 15 years I have made 2 significant (sp) errors that were potentially deadly. The first actually ended up benifitting the patient. I work ED and was fighting with the internal med team to intubate and sedate a very sick s...
  9. My favorite.... "I just want to get checked out". Checked out for what? This is ussually stated post minor MVC, fall, child falling off couch onto carpet, tumbling off a bike, doing new drugs, having 'relations' with people one is unsure of, etc......
  10. Learning thread (ER medicine)

    just read back in the thread and realized this had been answered, I gotta stop just trying to jump in at the end of the thread...LOL I am really liking this thread....it is amazing how smart you people are!!!! I went to ED rounds this am...amazed at ...
  11. Learning thread (ER medicine)

    3-5 p in my house is the "witching hours"---I hate them!!! the kids get nuts, dinner needs to be made, you have to get someone somewhere by some time...the kids are hungry but you can't let them snack too much or they will not eat dinner, you can't l...
  12. Oh yeah... My favourite thing to do is get them off the EMS stretcher and inot the main waiting room...good pr for the folk in the waiting room, and makes the medics happy.....(sometimes they bring coffee after that!!)LOL.
  13. when people get antsy/bitchy about the average 7.5-8 hours wait time that we have in our antiquated far too small department with 7 speciality programs that draw from way outside our catchment area.... My favourite answer remains...."You do not want ...
  14. When Docs Cover Up Surgical Errors

    at one of our sister hospitals a pt did not pursue litigation even thought the doc replaced the wrong knee. The doc went to the pt and apologized, the pt agreed the doc was remorseful--he was really upset. Obviously, the other knee was eventually re...
  15. care errors

    Has anyone read the recent Time magazine article that basically concludes that 'care errors', all errors, including meds, vitals, food, allergies, dressings, x-rays, etc. are actually the 'norm' in the hospital? (They interviewed docs who had family...