RainbowSkye

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1. Burnout In ER

   RainbowSkye replied to Kev702's topic in Emergency

   Ha! I work in the boonies and take care of plenty of crackheads and mh patients. There was even a poor little kid who died this past weekend who had ingested mom's crack. The problem with mental health patients out here is that it takes the menta...

2. Question on sisters visit to ER

   RainbowSkye replied to sydylo's topic in Emergency

   Check this out: http://www.emedicine.com/emerg/topic41.htm

3. Ok....don't flame me ....questions for ya...

   RainbowSkye replied to IloveSnoopy's topic in General Nursing

   I worked telephone triage for several years and although it's not as difficult physically, it is a job which requires a lot of concentration and communication. It's like trying to do ER triage with no vital signs and your eyes closed. Dont' be fool...

4. ER Pet Peeves

   RainbowSkye replied to ERERER's topic in Emergency

   Okay, I'll give it a try. -suction bottles that are full or that have been removed for emptying and not replaced -the person who used the last (fill in the blank here) and did not bother to replace it -activated charcoal -- in all honesty has anyone ...

5. I shaved off a patient's mustache. Was I wrong?

   RainbowSkye replied to NebbyLPN's topic in General Nursing

   I certainly understand what you did, and I hope the family will come to understand as well. However, your supervisor really should have made you aware of this patient's dementia as that is a crucial part of of his care. Also, I odn't think anyone wou...

6. Unnecessary testing

   RainbowSkye replied to Question's topic in Emergency

7. Unnecessary testing

   RainbowSkye replied to Question's topic in Emergency

   I've been working in various ERs since 1979, and yup, there is a lot more testing. But golly, back in 1979 we didn't have: ct scans, mri scans, we didn't even have an ultrasound in our hospital at that time. We didn't have ck-mbs, troponines, bnps,...

8. Reglan IV

   RainbowSkye replied to gwrn99's topic in Emergency

   Okay, I'm dating myself, but in the old days (1970s in my case) we frequently "mainlined" drugs. I can remember drawing up the undiluted medication in a syringe (often fentanyl or morphine), accessing a vein, mixing the medicine with a little blood ...

9. Regarding paramedics in ER..why are they paid so terribly ?

   RainbowSkye replied to carachel2's topic in Emergency

   Okay, here's my experience. And please feel free to disagree if it's different for y'all. Paramedics are trained/educated to provide pre-hospital care. Their license allows them to provide very specific (and complex care) and give medications under...

10. Anyone have experience w/Plantar Fasciitis??

    RainbowSkye replied to pebbles1977's topic in General Nursing

    Okay, here's what worked for me: Birkenstock shoes. They are the only shoes I wear these days. Work, play, exercise, going out... Never going barefoot. Never. Doing exercises to stretch the tendon in my foot. Patience. It took me over four years,...

11. No More Bedside Nursing, I Quit!

    RainbowSkye replied to cameroondiva's topic in New Nurse

    WARNING: NEGATIVE NURSING POST (and these are my experiences only): I've been an RN for 31 years. My experience has been that although hospitals pay great lip service to respecting nursing, they do not. And, unfortunately, I think this is true in e...

12. What do your ER patients families say or do that irks you?

    RainbowSkye replied to ER-RN2's topic in Emergency

    WHY does it irritate a Nurse when a patient states they are a "hard stick"? And, the patient tries to help by informing the Nurse what type of needle and where to try? I still don't understand why it angers a Nurse, because no was has really answer...

13. Community Hospital vs Level One

    RainbowSkye replied to KatieBell's topic in Emergency

    Sorry. I meant to say that sometimes you're the only RN in the entire hospital (with responsibility as the supervisor and the pharmacist as well as overseeing the LPNs on the medical unit).

14. Community Hospital vs Level One

    RainbowSkye replied to KatieBell's topic in Emergency

    I work at an itty-bitty rural hospital. It is quite a different thing to be the only RN in the ER when you get a bad trauma patient. No anesthesia, an oncall RT, no surgery, maybe two or three units of O- in the lab... sometimes you're the only RN...

15. Drug seekers "Drug of Choice"

    RainbowSkye replied to SWFlorida's topic in Emergency