funnyliz

funnyliz has 11 years experience and specializes in CCU/ER.

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1. "You've got 4 days to improve or else..." ... advice?

   funnyliz replied to CherryLifeSaver2621's topic in Emergency

   So sorry you've had to endure this - but it will truly make you stronger in the long run. Let me share my story - short, but sweet - I was a new grad in 2001 (at age 37) after working as a paramedic in Houston and having a couple kids, etc - and I t...

2. New Nurse's 1st Crash & Burn

   funnyliz replied to JazzyK89's topic in MICU

   Great work !!! This coming from an ER nurse who quickly (often with smoking' wheels) runs her patients up to you for the 1:1 care that they need. Coming to ER from CCU, I can relate to your night shift and to the realization that the family just isn...

3. Graduate nurse and ER?

   funnyliz replied to aghols12's topic in Emergency

   I think that the one thing experience gives you is you see it coming ... for instance, we have a triage nurse who can identify a kidney stone from the car - these are things that an experienced nurse brings with them. I precept for our ER and that is...

4. Anyone familiar with Epic?

   funnyliz replied to mappers's topic in Informatics

   We have had EPIC for over 6 months now and the capacity for documentation is great HOWEVER, the learning curve is immense! For our facility, the admin decided that the nurses only needed to know nursing stuff and the docs needed to know their stuff ...

5. EPIC Computer Program

   funnyliz replied to al7139's topic in Informatics

   We have had EPIC for about 6 months now - it's really quite nice - I do have a question about the flowsheets for Trauma centers. We are still using the paper flowsheet in addition to having to enter all our tubes/vitals/lines/meds etc into Epic. Ho...

6. Another CEN question

   funnyliz replied to crb613's topic in Emergency

   I have recently passed my CEN and found that making my own color coded flash cards from test questions worked well. I purchased a test book (included 5 tests) and took the tests - found that my weakness was in ob/gyn and toxicology - test was tough,...