campesina

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1. Periop job opportunity

   campesina posted a topic in Operating Room

   Hi everyone! I'm a nurse with 6 years of experience, most of it ER and I'm looking to make a switch to peri-op. The position I'm applying for involved a lot of pre-op and post-op care and from what I understand not too much circulating type duties as...

2. Was I out of place?

   campesina replied to rhkenji's topic in Emergency

   You weren't out of line. Patient and staff safety ALWAYS comes before charting. Personally I can't ever imagine turning down someone's request for help in a situation like that.

3. Feeling guilty ALL the time

   campesina replied to detrelibre's topic in Emergency

   I used to be (and still a little bit am) like you. I beat myself up a lot. But now, with time and experience I'm learning that we are human and these people are sick and if they tank and we have done everything possible, it's NOT OUR FAULT. When I ha...

4. ER RN NYC /Pt:RN Ratio

   campesina replied to BelDym's topic in Emergency

   Wrong thread! please delete

5. ER RN NYC /Pt:RN Ratio

   campesina replied to BelDym's topic in Emergency

   14 patients!? Wow that is insane. I work in an ER in NJ and our ratio is 5:1 and if we have a heavy critically ill patient or trauma patient usually someone will cover the rest of our pod for us so we can focus on that one patient (we also make the t...

6. Verbal order-Denied by resident

   campesina replied to Traumamama02's topic in Emergency

   If the attending at told me to use Fentanyl and Versed as sedation, I would've not started the propofol at all and just would've started the other two drugs. The resident was a jerk for denying what he did and said, but I think it was still incorrect...

7. OR TO ER? Help?!

   campesina replied to ChristyJ's topic in Emergency

   I think the ER is a shock to anyone, ranging from experienced ICU nurses to med-surg nurses to brand to grads. It's very fast paced and you have to be on your toes, and also the learning curve is immense. But with all of that being said, I'm sure you...

8. CEN 2017! Petrified to fail!

   campesina replied to Queenbeenurse's topic in Emergency

   I'm sure you have already taken it, but for those who haven't, the ENA book with 5 practice tests inside + 2 online tests helped me the most. I did the tests, read the rationales for the questions I got wrong, and then brushed up on the topic in the ...