billsnurse

billsnurse specializes in medicine floor.. surg-step-.moving to ED.

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1. Career Change

   billsnurse replied to billsnurse's topic in Emergency

   Hi Everyone, Well, I am three weeks in and so far I am very happy. I am excited about work again and I think I will be good at it with a little time. I already have regained some confidence and my preceptor has a way of pulling info out of me that I ...

2. maggots?

   billsnurse replied to billsnurse's topic in Emergency

   I have used medicinal leeches on a skin graft patient before and it was interesting but no big deal. This was on a post surgical skin graft patient. Since I am new to the ER I have heard stories of homeless people coming in with maggots in wounds. I ...

3. maggots?

   billsnurse posted a topic in Emergency

   Hi Everyone, Does anyone have any experience with patients coming into the ED with maggots on them? What do you use to remove them? Just thinking about it gives me the willies and I want to be prepared if it comes my way. Thanks

4. Tell me there is something good about nursing and that you do enjoy your job

   billsnurse replied to hopefulnurse123's topic in General Nursing

   Hey Funny Girl, What do you do and how is the new job better? Is it a different hospital?

5. New nurse question re: NPO and meds

   billsnurse replied to LisaJanae's topic in General Nursing

   pirap, I like your approach, it seems simple and easy to follow for everyone. I am not calling the doc unless I have too..(high BP)... I have too many other things to do than remind someone of something. LOL

6. Tell me there is something good about nursing and that you do enjoy your job

   billsnurse replied to hopefulnurse123's topic in General Nursing

   Love it/ hate it= both. There are some days that the work is way too much for one person. Weekends suck because you miss out on family things, same with the holidays. The expectation of the RN at the bedside in a hospital setting is very high. Too mu...

7. Career Change

   billsnurse replied to billsnurse's topic in Emergency

   Thank you everyone. I am hopeful that I will love the ER. I am not afraid to ask questions and I love to learn new things. I am hopeful that I will love it so much that I look forward to work as opposed to dreading it. On the floor it was the same ol...

8. Career Change

   billsnurse posted a topic in Emergency

   Hi All, I start my new job in the ED on tuesday. After 2 1/2 years on the floor I am sooo ready for change. The problem is that I am petrified right about now. Have I done the right thing? Will I like it? What if I am terrible? Will I go through the ...

9. Interview for level 1 trauma center

   billsnurse replied to gam3rchic's topic in Emergency

   Hi there, Your background sounds like mine. I am starting a new job in a level 2 ER soon. I am nervous and excited all at the same time. I figured I will give it 100% for a year and hope I have found my niche or else I will move on. I have not been t...

10. Help, advice please

    billsnurse replied to billsnurse's topic in Emergency

    Well, Now that a few days have passed I have been able to gain some perspective. Our ER may be a mess right now and this could be a blessing in disguise. We have an interim director and the nurse manager just gave notice. When you add the fact that u...

11. Help, advice please

    billsnurse replied to billsnurse's topic in Emergency

    Thanks TraumaRU's I am just upset because it took me a long time to come to the choice of ER and now that I have, it is hard to give it up. I was hired two months ago and asked to wait until this fellowship started. In the meantime I have taken an EC...

12. Help, advice please

    billsnurse posted a topic in Emergency

    Hi everyone, I just got some bad news today. The ER fellowship that I got hired for just got canceled. I was supposed to start in Jan. I am really mad due to the fact that I have spent time and money to prepare for this new position. I was thinking a...

13. Is Umsl Nursing School Good or Bad?!?

    billsnurse replied to MISS_TCM's topic in Missouri

    Hang in there! Most nursing scholls offer a whole lot of hoops to jump through. I just started a BSN completion program that is supposedly geared to adult learners and you would not believe the busy work that has no basis in reality. Just keep pluggi...