Cali Nurse

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1. Which hospital?

   Cali Nurse replied to Rocknurse's topic in Connecticut

   I will be applying for an Emergency full time position in Jun/Jul next year. I was thinkng of the yale group. Anybody work for them or have any suggesstions on if it if a good place to work? I know they have it split up in peds, adult Level one, an...

2. Cen

   Cali Nurse replied to KatieBell's topic in Emergency

   I just passed in June this year. I studied here and there for maybe 3 months. The best book I used was "CEN Review Manual", it's actually put out by the ENA. You can get it on the ENA website, it's $50 but worth it. The book gives you 5, 175 ques...

3. Are you at work?

   Cali Nurse replied to Nathalie's topic in General Nursing

   I work in a rural hospital and there's tons of downtime! I'm on here every night because I'm the only nurse on in my dept and have no other nurses to talk to. So it's nice to be able to see what other nurses think about things.

4. Is Indiana RN allowed to give Ketamine for procedural sedation ??

   Cali Nurse replied to samaritan's topic in Emergency

   Did anyone else read the article addressing mod sedation in the Sept ENA newsletter? Very interesting and includes a list of agents that the ENA/ACEP support for use in procedural sedation. Includes (but not limited to): etomidate, propofol, ketam...

5. ER Nurses Treated Different in my Hospital!

   Cali Nurse replied to Jen2's topic in Emergency

   I wouldn't say there is a specific person who says "now is the time the pt can go to the floor". It's more like a process. The ER doc is ready for them to go as soon as the consulting physician says they are accepting the pt. In our hospital, the ...

6. Roll Call for all Military and VA Nurses and those considering the Service

   Cali Nurse replied to RNPATL's topic in Government

   I'm a Navy nurse, have been in for 4 years. I did 1 1/2 years med/surg, the rest ER. I'm currently overseas, can't wait to get back to a busy hospital.

7. Is Indiana RN allowed to give Ketamine for procedural sedation ??

   Cali Nurse replied to samaritan's topic in Emergency

   I'm sorry. It seemed like the EDinNC post was saying that if we can push parayltics for an RSI, and then monitor/sedate the pt once vented, that giving ketamine, a drug which is used commonly in CS should be in our scope of practice. That's why I m...

8. ER Nurses Treated Different in my Hospital!

   Cali Nurse replied to Jen2's topic in Emergency

   I'm sorry if that came off as attitude, but you had just gone off on how ER nurses dump on you and I was trying to point out why it may seem that way. Like I said, I worked on a floor for 2 years and I remember getting multiple admissions per shift ...

9. Is Indiana RN allowed to give Ketamine for procedural sedation ??

   Cali Nurse replied to samaritan's topic in Emergency

   If you would re-read the post you were commenting on, the person was talking about RSI and vented pts. I think any competent RN knows that paralytics are not used in CS.

10. ER Nurses Treated Different in my Hospital!

    Cali Nurse replied to Jen2's topic in Emergency

    OK, you obviously have some misconceptions about how the ER works. First of all, we do not sit on pts and ship them all up to the floor at once just to piss off the floor. We cannot send the pts up until we have admit orders, and sometimes the cons...

11. Personality traits suited for ER??

    Cali Nurse replied to LilRedRN1973's topic in Emergency

    Well, I never thought I would end up in the ER. I was pretty reserved, started out on med-surg. When I transferred down to the ER 3 years ago I was amazed at how much more aggressive I could be and how much stress I could handle. It can really bri...

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

    Cali Nurse replied to JUSTYSMOM's topic in Emergency

    Christmas Day 2 years ago, I was working triage, my first Christmas in the ER. I started out the day thinking "people will only come in if it's a real emergency today". Ha! --5 day old baby with ingrown toenails --female with "bump" on breast --a...

13. What should I expect at my first duty station

    Cali Nurse replied to futurenavynurse's topic in Government

    I have been in the Navy for 5 years now. I did not go to OIS, I did ROTC, so I can't give you any advice on that. But at my first duty station, Naval Hosp San Diego, I was on the fleet hospital Bremerton. I was on the platform for about 1 year and...