colorado ER RN

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1. Hey ER, what takes so long???

   colorado ER RN replied to RunningWithScissors's topic in Emergency

   It depends on each ER, but in ours we have standing orders that allow nursing to draw labs when the pt arrives so even though the labs were drawn 5 hours ago that doesn;t mean that they saw the doc then, then the doc sees the pt orders any additional...

2. Is it customary to give clinical instructor's gifts at the end of a rotation?

   colorado ER RN replied to lizmatt's topic in General Students

   we did a group card and group gift, like one year we did a personalized nursing mug-she liked to drink coffee, something small that she could remember us by.

3. any advice on shoes?

   colorado ER RN replied to graciev's topic in General Nursing

   I highly recommend Dansko's they are so comfortable, worth every penny. They are pretty much all i wear even on my days off. i did get a good deal on some on ebay, if you haven't worn them before go to the store and try them on for size and then look...

4. Anyone here in a "nursing couple"?

   colorado ER RN replied to heartlover07's topic in General Nursing

   My parents are both RN's, Dad and I actually went to school together and now all 3 of us work in the same ER(it's big). It works out well we go to eachother for questions, advice and then can later talk about situations or cases and learn from each o...

5. Anyone here in a "nursing couple"?

   colorado ER RN replied to heartlover07's topic in General Nursing

   My parents are both RN's, Dad and I actually went to school together and now all 3 of us work in the same ER(it's big). It works out well we go to eachother for questions, advice and then can later talk about situations or cases and learn from each ...

6. gloves to spike a bag

   colorado ER RN replied to vickynurse's topic in Infusion

   I have never heard of that or seen that, maybe with a blood product just in case but not IV fluids.

7. Salary for new nurse in St. Louis

   colorado ER RN replied to lcs4cats's topic in Missouri

   I was a new grad at a St Louis U hospital in 2002 and started at $15, I know that they have increased that because after i had been there a couple years and gotten a couple raises the new grads had almost caught up to me so I luckily got a wage adjus...

8. why should doctors be paid higher

   colorado ER RN replied to etinosa's topic in General Nursing

   The docs get paid more because they go to school forever and then residency, their school costs a lot more and their responsibility is so much greater, I am the wife of an MD resident and believe me they deserve it!!