HikingEDRN BSN, RN

Emergency Department; Neonatal ICU

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About HikingEDRN

HikingEDRN has 5 years experience as a BSN, RN and specializes in Emergency Department; Neonatal ICU.


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  1. HikingEDRN

    Thank you

    Thanks, guys. He passed away peacefully - his vitals were fine at midnight or so and they found him later. I'm so glad it happened that way.
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    Thank you

    I am an ER nurse and have taken care of more long term care residents than I can count. However, until yesterday, I had never stepped foot in a long term care facility. I went to visit a long-time family friend. He was living in assisted living bu...
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    Bad Breath in traumatic brain injury

    Interesting. I have never heard of this and I have seen traumatically brain injured patients but only in the ED. I see you are in the neuro ICU so I assume this develops later?
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    Lidocaine (UroJect) for Male Foleys

    I've used it several times in the ED and, based on my personal experience, I think the patients with it seem to experience the same type of discomfort as the patients who don't get it (of course maybe the ones without out would have really freaked ou...
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    Are you in a marathon today??

    Good job :) It's very satisfying to see a good outcome knowing that you played a major part. At times, one frustrating thing about the ED is that I've stabilized someone who was very sick but then I don't know what happened afterward. Usually I li...
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    Yesterday was weird

    If you were not lucky, the pearls would go somewhere else than out of your pant leg. Then, you have to show up to the ER with the dreaded "foreign body" chief complaint
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    Justify this nursing diagnosis

    Happy to hear this. At the risk of offending alternative practitioners (and I truly don't mean to offend), that nursing dx is the most ridiculous thing I have ever heard. I was actually hoping the OP was kidding.
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    Getting cut short on orientation

    If it makes you feel any better, when I started in the ED, I was not a new grad but was transitioning from neonatal ICU so it was all very new to me. I showed up one morning and my charge said, "You've had enough orientation, here's your assignment....
  9. HikingEDRN

    It's that time of year...Christmas stories

    Our NICU admitted a Jesus on Christmas Day several years ago.
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    I miss work

    I would at least wait until after the new year
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    Cardiac Arrest

    You can certainly have cardiac arrest with MI but, as others have nicely described, they are definitely not the same thing. Hopefully, you can get to the patient soon enough if they are infarcting and get them to the cardiac cath lab so those vessel...
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    What to Do When the Doctor Throws the Nurse Under the Bus by Lying

    Love this. And another time, perhaps in another thread so as not to derail this one, I would love to know the "punched by the cardiac surgeon" story OP, so sorry this happened to you. Document it and file an incident report. Why did the hospitali...
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    Benzos

    Thanks for your responses everyone. I completely agree that long term benzos are very over-prescribed. Sometimes I am appalled in the ED as a staff nurse how often I see it on the home med list as a long term medication especially in people in thei...
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    Benzos

    Hi everyone. As I've posted previously, I am an ACNP student currently rotating through the ICU. I was just wondering what others' (both RNs and NPs) experiences have been regarding benzos. It seems as though providers on rounds are not willing to...
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    Felt pretty proud of myself!

    I have had that happen too but only on one of my posts (the rests of my posts correctly identify my credentials). It says I'm an EMT-P and I am not. I looked at my settings and it was not checked either. And by the way, GREAT JOB