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  1. Whats your biggest pet peeve working in the ED?

    1) the patient who you spend 30minutes assessing, doing bloodwork, ecg, etc only to sign themselves out without being seen...what a waist of time 2) doctors who practice family medicine in the ER 3) patients who have a family doctor but use the ER as...
  2. nurses and EMT's

    EMS are crucial and I for one appreciate their profession. They are truly the front line, especially in trauma care. They often are placed in dangerous situations. In Canada, as I'm sure in the US, there are levels of EMS scope of practice. PCP (p...
  3. Pressure infusers

    I need to ask my clinical educator, but from what I've heard it has something to do with the pressure exerted on the bone marrow?
  4. what will actually happen?

    Amiodarone isn't compatible with NS. Generally that means there is research to say it either effects how the medication devolves within solution leading to such things as decreased efficacy or precipitates. Amiodarone should also be used in non-PVC...
  5. Pressure infusers

    Hi all, Do any of your EDs use pressure infusers with I/O devices? I know the ED where I work doesn't. Just CVADs and peripheral large bore lines?
  6. Help!!! Floor nurse applied for ED position

    A lot of interviews now take place with the manager of the unit plus an individual from the human resources department. A lot of the questions you will be asked will most likely be situational-behavioral based questions. Such as: describe a situati...
  7. ED support

    Hi all, I work in a busy 40 bed ED. In our ED nurse to patient ratio is 1:5 unless you are in the trauma bay where there are 2 nurses to 5 beds. As the RN, each new patient presenting to the ER you are responsible for doing the bloodwork, ECG, seco...
  8. Please advise: trauma center v. non-trauma center

    The second offer sounds like you would see a variety of cases and be able to gain valuable experience in prioritization, not that you wouldn't get that with the smaller ED but more so with the larger one. A trauma four center still would not see man...
  9. Whats your biggest pet peeve working in the ED?

    One of many pet peeves: patients who come to the ER presenting with abdo pain/ chest pain going on for almost a week and finally come to the ER and complain how long they have to wait to be assessed by a doctor. You've "waited" almost a week to come...
  10. Nursing student wanting to work in ER

    As an ER nurse it's not just knowledge you have to have about various areas of medicine, but having a personality to cope with thepace of the ER. I remember having a patient in with abdo pain, but subsequently developed a vascular issue in his arm. ...
  11. TNCC Study Guide ~ Please help!!!!

    I've taken TNCC twice, and like the above suggestion, memorize the trauma process, your assessment, and the interventions associated with each step (i.e. for airway you are looking for blood, secretions and if present you suction. If they are an unc...