Happy-ER-RN RN

Happy-ER-RN is a RN and specializes in Emergency.

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1. Positive TB Test

   Happy-ER-RN replied to Happy-ER-RN's topic in General Nursing

   Thank you nene RN, that is exactly what I was needing to know. It sounds to me like it is optional to take the meds as long as there are no signs of active infection. I looked closer at the form they gave me and the doc just has to sign saying I ha...

2. Positive TB Test

   Happy-ER-RN posted a topic in General Nursing

   My PPD is positive! I just had my chest x-ray. My question is, can I refuse the meds if my x-ray is negative? Can my empoyer refuse to let me work if I refuse the meds? I am trying to conceive and have already lost 2 babies so there is no way I a...

3. Anyone Lost A Baby?

   Happy-ER-RN replied to Happy-ER-RN's topic in Emergency

   Thank you all so much. I am back at work now and somehow making it through. I have noticed that I have lost my ability to stay detached from my patients. I mean, I am always caring and kind to my patients, but, for example, yesterday I was discha...

4. Anyone Lost A Baby?

   Happy-ER-RN posted a topic in Emergency

   Hello. I just lost my little boy at 20 weeks gestation last week. I am scared to death to go back to work, not only the fact that I have to face all of my peers with an empty belly and empty heart, but how I am I going to take care of all the misca...

5. Incometent Doctor

   Happy-ER-RN posted a topic in Emergency

   What do you do when you work with an incompetent doctor? This doctor is truly an idiot and is inhumane. I know how very frowned upon it is for nurses to go after a doctor, but I am scared for MY license and MY patients lives when I work with her. ...

6. OK...Nurses I would like some advice!!!

   Happy-ER-RN replied to NeosynephRN's topic in Ob/Gyn

   You don't need a year of med-surg, the only people who say are that people who are bitter because they had to do it back in the day when you couldn't go wherever you want. I am not saying med-surg experience wouldn't be helpful, but go do what you l...

7. First Med Error

   Happy-ER-RN posted a topic in General Nursing

   I am so upset!! I made my first med error after 2 years of nursing. I am very, very diligent, I always double check my order, I always check allergies, I made a promise to myself as a student that I would never once get lazy with my med passing proc...

8. Refuse TB test

   Happy-ER-RN posted a topic in General Nursing

   Do I have the right to refuse the TB skin test? I work at two places and it seems like between them I'm getting a TB test every 6 months, one won't take the other's results, I am tired of it and I looked around and saw that the test is made with a k...

9. Fetal Doppler

   Happy-ER-RN posted a topic in Ob/Gyn

   I am an ED nurse and had a question for ya'll. Is it possible for the babies heart to beat in sync with the mom? At nine weeks I heard the swishing of the femoral pulse at about 75 bpm, then moved over toward where the uterus should be and heard th...

10. My first code

    Happy-ER-RN replied to christvs's topic in General Nursing

    Absolutely take ACLS. Your hospital should offer one every quarter or so. I felt just like you when I first started in the ER and after ACLS it took my anxiety level down so much it was unbelievable. ACLS is actually not that difficult if you take...

11. Twas the night before christmas...

    Happy-ER-RN posted a topic in Emergency

    A couple of us wrote this this morning and had a good time doing it so I thought I would share, now we used the names of our frequent flyers, so I will bleep those out so you can put in the names of your own. If you are a bleeding heart nurse who is...

12. 12 Days of Christmas ER Style

    Happy-ER-RN replied to SargeRN's topic in Emergency

    We started making one of those at work too, only ours went: On the 12th day of christmas my patient gave to me, viral meningitis, gastroenteritis, one UTI....that's as far as we got though... Hee hee, fun..

13. Considering Rehab.

    Happy-ER-RN replied to Happy-ER-RN's topic in Rehabilitation

    Thanks! I think educating patients will be difficult for me, I never know what happens after people leave, long term is not something I ever think about in the ED, it's always someone elses problem, it will be a huge role change to try to teach someo...

14. Considering Rehab.

    Happy-ER-RN posted a topic in Rehabilitation

    Hello. I am getting burnt out on ER nursing so I am going to work part time there and get a PRN job somewhere else. I am considering a free standing rehab hospital that has a lot of TBI, vent. weening, medically complex, things like that. I just ha...

15. advice for newbies...!

    Happy-ER-RN replied to spenceandchris's topic in General Nursing

    Unfortunately, I think besides the basics--(learn all you can) there is not much you can do to avoid the new nurse struggle. It is going to be hard at first, that's just the way it is. Try to think of it like child labor, you know it is going to hu...