ED_Chris_RN

ED_Chris_RN

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About ED_Chris_RN

ED_Chris_RN has 1 years experience and specializes in ED.


I am a second career RN. My former career was in both the military and civilian sectors and consisted of management and electronics, with a little bit of marketing.

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  1. When do you follow your heart?

    I see all sides to this as I have seen both sides at work. I think that you do in a way owe something to your new company for hiring you as a new grad but in reality I think you should follow your heart. If push came to shove a company would drop you...
  2. How's your dating life?

    Well I had to marry my college for 2 years. Now I am out of school and getting a divorce. I am happy about it though, long time coming and being a nurse affords me the ability to take care of myself.
  3. Anyone in the ED used EPIC. Go live soon in ED.

    I have been using it for a year in two different hospitals. I LOVE it. One hospital has a much better setup, but both are easy to navigate and make my life so much easier!
  4. Triage Handoff

    Our EMR Triage screen shows us all this information. We get a quick verbal breakdown but you can see all the info on one screen.
  5. Cutting my ties to this specialty

    It is good you have realized this before you started working there as an RN. ED is definitely not for everyone!
  6. My heart is set on the emergency field but...

    I work in the ED and I find it is very easy for me to separate myself from death and children. I feel empathy for them but I am able to stay detached from situations enough to not take my work home or get depressed. I never would have thought I was c...
  7. New grad in rural ER?

    Thank you! I see what you are saying. I found that my first few times on the floor I was nervous but I really found my rhythm in a short amount of time. If you really feel like it is where you want to be shadow at the hospital you want to work at to ...
  8. Am I cut-out for ED nursing?

    I started at my local hospital while in nursing school as a NCP (CNA). I floated to every unit but I excelled in the ED so they decided to make me a tech. I worked as a tech until I graduated. I remember my first day in the ED as a NCP, I went home a...
  9. Nurse/Patient ratio in the ED?

    My ratio is 5 to 1 from 7a to 11a and then 4 to 1 from 11a to 7p.
  10. I am sorry for what you are going through. When I was in nursing school I had two former Army medics in my class and a bunch of Navy Corpsman (Military Area). I learned a lot of valuable things from these people, especially when it came to triage and...
  11. New grad in rural ER?

    I am a new grad and I work in a Level 2. I love my experience thus far! I think it is all about getting paired with the right preceptor for you, some people just do not mesh. I saw a bunch of my coworkers struggle because their preceptor/preceptee re...
  12. How do you handle the drug seekers?

    I treat all my patients the same no matter what. But I will say that our doc's tend to check and see what type and how many narcotic prescriptions people have gotten, if they appear to be "drug seeking". In a few cases I have seen patients who have g...
  13. ER VS ICU NURSING

    As an ED nurse and a former ED Tech I am very insulted by this comment. Sure we don't handle ADL's on the same patients all day long but we do CPR for hours on end, deal with people at their worst as far as mental status goes and we make split second...