roxburin

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1. At home medical transcription

   roxburin replied to seanymph's topic in General Nursing

   The best I've seen so far is Sten-Tel. You can submit your resume to: [email protected], or their number is 1.888.STEN.TEL. On their website (http://www.sten-tel.com) there is also a useful paragraph: "If you do not have experience in the...

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

   roxburin replied to JUSTYSMOM's topic in Emergency

   Golfers thumb: A man hurt his finger/nail on Monday and came in on Friday to have it taken care of so he could heal and fly out for golf the following week. It didn't look that bad at all and he kept pressing it asking "what do you think?". (I think ...

3. Dealing with death

   roxburin replied to savealife's topic in General Nursing

   My biggest concern so far is dealing wth death too well. From the first time I saw someone dead I was fine with it. Kinda interested. Not scared but numb to it. Of course they were strangers to me, but being numb and ok with people dying is what conc...

4. Need Common Phrases in Spanish

   roxburin replied to roxburin's topic in Emergency

   Ha ha ha! Don't think I can use most of those labor ones in the ER. I'm pretty sure "ex-a-meeen baaa-hi-nal" is not going to work.

5. Need Common Phrases in Spanish

   roxburin replied to roxburin's topic in Emergency

   Thanks guys for the help! I really appreciate it. You never know when you might get blindsided! Now if I could only get russian (get quite a few actually), portuguese, or even german! Ha ha just kidding...spanish will do just fine for me. Although fu...

6. Need Common Phrases in Spanish

   roxburin posted a topic in Emergency

   Hello, I volunteer in the ER while going to school. I like it, but I don't speak Spanish and I've been lucky so far that there have been some bilingual people nearby when spanish-only speaking visitors come to the hospital. I would like to know if...

7. Unsafe assignments in the ED

   roxburin replied to LeahJet's topic in Emergency

   Our ER (Level I Trauma) seems like a mad house. I'm sure there is some logic to it, but we have over 20 beds/rooms, trauma area(s), people outside those rooms in beds, people in the hallways in the ER.... etc ... ...nurses.... doctors... patient advo...

8. job in OR

   roxburin replied to roxburin's topic in Med-Surg

   A hospital here says they have positions for sterilizers and OR Assistants. I want to become an OR nurse someday and am now taking prereqs to that end. Should I drop a job that pays 45K a year in order to take one that pays 30k? If so which job do yo...

9. Vegetarian being asked to dissect a cat !

   roxburin replied to roxburin's topic in Pre-Nursing

   I suppose my problem would be that if my dissecting the cat made the city pound's job easier because someone was going to use the dead cat or if the school actually paid for the cat therefore creating a market for slaughter then I would feel responsi...

10. Vegetarian being asked to dissect a cat !

    roxburin replied to roxburin's topic in Pre-Nursing

    Thanks for the enthusiasm - this just seems like it should be another topic that you should post yourself eh? A new thread of your own that you can get all kinds of responses back from you know? Take care. I'll find out more about my own situation Mo...

11. Vegetarian being asked to dissect a cat !

    roxburin replied to roxburin's topic in Pre-Nursing

    Guys, this is a serious issue for me. I know it is easy to get emotional about all this. Been there done that, but I'm going to sound greedy here. Please don't clutter up my thread by fighting or other issues. It just sounds like we are getting away ...

12. Vegetarian being asked to dissect a cat !

    roxburin replied to roxburin's topic in Pre-Nursing

    Well, first of all I'm a guy (surprising that a guy might like animals but..). Thanks to all posters though heh heh. I will let you all know how this turns out. It's not a matter of cats VS humans. It's that we are civilized and don't need to result ...

13. Vegetarian being asked to dissect a cat !

    roxburin replied to roxburin's topic in Pre-Nursing

    I'm trying to get my head around wether or not it makes a difference if they were donated or bought. I'm anti-euthanasia too. I know that it happens and does it make it better that the cats are donated (I hope and not bought)afterwards? Wow this is t...

14. Vegetarian being asked to dissect a cat !

    roxburin posted a topic in Pre-Nursing

    Oh geesh, classes have just started and ALREADY I have a problem. You see I'm a vegetarian and my lab for Anatomy and Physiology has a part to it that is dissecting a cat. Problem is I have a respect for life and am a strict vegetarian (no leather, m...

15. ER violence

    roxburin replied to night fox's topic in Emergency

    Is there a heirarchy in the ER that tells you when to hold someone or tazer someone or break up some people? I am volunteering soon and was wondering if the doctors have the call on that or the nurses or if there no one to tell you what force to use?...