Vince_RN

Vince_RN

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About Vince_RN

Vince_RN has 19 years experience and specializes in Emergency.

I've been an RN since 1996, and was an ED Tech and EMT before that. I am an ED nurse and have also worked in critical care transport and hyperbaric medicine. I am currently a charge nurse in a smallish semi-rural ED and doing some informatics work on the side.

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  1. Going into informatics

    Vince_RN posted a topic in Informatics

    I'm an ED nurse, and a long time computer hobbyist and general tech geek. For the past 18 months I've done some informatics stuff as a side job at work. For a while it was half my job, though now it's a quarter or less. I worked on the build team a...

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

    Vince_RN replied to JUSTYSMOM's topic in Emergency

    Ridiculous is a daily occurrence in this business. I have seen a patient in her 60s who came to the ED because she had a bad dream, that was one of the most ridiculous I guess. A favorite ridiculous patient is the one that comes in with a vague chr...

  3. Does the ER get easier or is it time to call it quits?

    Vince_RN replied to RNTEE's topic in Emergency

    Don't worry about finding three ED patients difficult 4 months into a residency. I've seen hundreds of new nurses start their ED careers, and few were really capable of properly taking care of three ED patients at that point. Many thought they were...