schizo_maja

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1. 24 Things ER Nurses Know All Too Well

   schizo_maja replied to RN_in_SC's topic in Emergency

   ... the cigs and cellphone are so true... We have a mom who have a 6 mo. old baby with water intoxication because she has been feeding the baby since that morning with water... she told us she had nowhere to go for help because her medicaid has been ...

2. How many of you have used the anatomy/phys/microbiology COLORING BOOKS?

   schizo_maja replied to emily_ganshert's topic in General Nursing

   I loved it. Being a visual learner, I had a great time learning Anatomy with those books, I loved the Cranial bones - they have the most space for crayons

3. Learning thread (ER medicine)

   schizo_maja replied to TraumaInTheSlot's topic in Emergency

   Funny as it is, working in an inner city City Hospital, its part of our protocol. We put drunks, confused, elopement risk patient to "yellow" gown instead of a regular blue gown that will alert every staff and the hospital police that they cannot let...

4. Where are all of the Senior or Seasoned ED Nurses??

   schizo_maja replied to ED_EMR_NURSE's topic in Emergency

   I work in Peds ER and I'm the youngest, working in this unit for 2.5 years. The next "youngest" one has been here for 15 years and the oldest has been here since the hospital started in 1982

5. Nursing Shortage Fallacy?

   schizo_maja replied to cherrybreeze's topic in General Nursing

   I work in an inner city ER, and I must say we feel the shortage... 3 nurses trying to get through night and day in a really busy Pediatric ER or maybe just maybe, with all the crappiness that we deal everyday, we just can't keep nurses... its the abu...

6. Math Quiz For Er Nurses!

   schizo_maja replied to ACRN06's topic in Emergency

   1. you are assisting a primary nurse with charcoal administration down an orogastric tube. the room measures eight feet by twelve feet. the patient starts to retch before the tube is pulled. knowing that charcoal can spew out of a tube in a five foot...

7. Math Quiz For Er Nurses!

   schizo_maja replied to ACRN06's topic in Emergency

   1. you are assisting a primary nurse with charcoal administration down an orogastric tube. the room measures eight feet by twelve feet. the patient starts to retch before the tube is pulled. knowing that charcoal can spew out of a tube in a five foot...

8. Your least favorite patient.

   schizo_maja replied to errn7's topic in Emergency

   The other hundreds of people who works in the hospital... from the housekeeping department to contractual employees! As soon as I see them in the triage with their ID's on I have to take a really deep sigh and be as cordial as I could, especially if ...

9. treatment of "vip's"

   schizo_maja replied to UtErRnEmt's topic in Emergency

   hmmm... I love working in a city hospital where the VIP's won't be coming here as planned or as wanted, extreme emergency maybe like dead or actively dying perhaps... even employees who works here wants to be seen first... even house keeping for cryi...

10. er visitors...a funny

    schizo_maja replied to UtErRnEmt's topic in Emergency

    "ME TOO"... the brother, mother, sister... friend... wants water too, juice, sandwich... etc...

11. It is me or them!!! I can't stand it anymore!

    schizo_maja replied to TigerGalLE's topic in General Nursing

    I have this urge to give out job description copy every time I ask something of them... will it be bad? we only ask them what they have to do anyway... because some of them just don't know what the **** they're supposed to and have to be constantly r...

12. It is me or them!!! I can't stand it anymore!

    schizo_maja replied to TigerGalLE's topic in General Nursing

    We have an AIDE kicked off last week, we tried to work things out with her but still, she do 1:1's away from patient on her celphone, takes over nurses desks so she could log in the internet, gives me an open box of gloves when I told her specificall...

13. Stupidest reason to go to ER

    schizo_maja replied to DachRN's topic in Emergency

    we have a lot of toothache directed to TRAUMA ER instead of the EZ care and one time, our notification phone rang, the operator was actually just asking if we have a dentist on duty at 0400!!! that's the NOTIFICATION PHONE... we're usually a sec call...

14. Pros and cons of being an ER nurse

    schizo_maja replied to chsakyrachsa110503's topic in General Nursing

    pro's >> the organized chaos. when an outsider looks into the ed, most are overwhelmed, but when you're in the middle of it, you exactly knows what's happening to everyone and everything. >> anticipation. the need to be one step ahead of ...

15. ER nurses...what shoes??

    schizo_maja replied to RN2MSNasap's topic in Emergency

    call me crazy (i usually am, ask anyone i work with here) but i usually wear shoes the same color of my scrubs... i usually have sneakers like those cute pumas, rebooks, nikes, etc... i like to mix and match them same color as my scrubs, kinda fun...