DC Collins

DC Collins ASN

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About DC Collins

DC Collins has 7 years experience as a ASN and specializes in ED.


7 year ED RN

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  1. Mandated Nurse-Patient Ratios

    If nurses support this kind of legislation, it MUST include the ED. People ask how this can be done if an emergency comes in, especially when the worst emergencies sometimes involve more than one nurse: 1) Enough float nurses to cover the emergencies...
  2. Yes, it sounds to me like you are getting as much of a full patient load as you can, without access to the chart (which I don't understand). DC :-)
  3. What's your patient load?

    After thinking about it, I am not sure any of these numbers have a lot of meaning. While, as I posted above, our 'standard' is three, often with a fourth 'hallway appropriate' patient, we are expected to get our patients out within 2 hours in most ca...
  4. What's your patient load?

    Teams of two RNs, each has a 'standard' of three rooms, but often get one additional 'hallway bed'. While we keep our own pts, if one of us is swamped and the other isn't, we 'inherit' anywhere from a few aspects of the teammate's pt care to an entir...
  5. Nights in the ER??

    I knew someone else who had it prescribed for sleep, so I asked my doc. Doc said ok. DC :-)
  6. Should Healthcare Be Funded As A Basic Human Right?

    Because, anecdotally, that has not been the norm, though such things do happen. I was referring, however (while failing to mention it), to more emergent things like cancer screenings when other diagnostics point toward it, organ failures, and the lik...
  7. Should Healthcare Be Funded As A Basic Human Right?

    There is something to be said for working up good relationships with family and friends and community. People in the US are some of the most generous people on the planet. Asking for help is great! Getting it even better. *Stealing* the help, is immo...
  8. Should Healthcare Be Funded As A Basic Human Right?

    I don't find waiting 16 hours in an ED (socialized) a better system. And we do have one of the most advanced / more equipment per capita systems in the world. Waiting several months for a CT because there are fewer machines per capita is, IMHO, *not...
  9. Hygiene

    How old are the kids? If the school has an athletics program, encourage the kids to join = free showers? DC :-)
  10. Should Healthcare Be Funded As A Basic Human Right?

    1) In other words, they feel it is okay to keep stealing from others because it is easier to do so than not. Anyone else doing this would go to jail. 2) But good point! Let's make the costs outweigh the benefits, or simply remove the benefits. Funny ...
  11. Should Healthcare Be Funded As A Basic Human Right?

    The key word highlighted above is "shouldn't". Is it smart to help your neighbor? Is it smart to encourage someone who is trying to make it? Yes to both. But "shouldn't" implies authority to *force* others to pay for it. Theft is theft, whether under...
  12. The problem is, if I understand it correctly, that *you* saw the MAR. If you have a co-signer, the co-signer *must* always see the MAR (or orders, or whatever you are working from) as well. They are signing saying that the order is correct with what ...
  13. TNCC/ENPC for a new grad?

    2 DC :)
  14. Experienced RN, New to ER

    As said above, your time-management skills will be useful. But if you get a chance, watch an ED nurse do a quick *focused* assessment. And watch one d/c a pt. Even better is if you can shadow (ask the manager(s) if you can do so on your own time) and...
  15. Can a new grad work in the ER?

    I was a fresh hire into the ED 2 years ago. Did I struggle a little? Sure. But we have had m/s nurses transfer in, some who have both done better than I did and some who struggled a lot more. ED is an entirely different world than m/s, and the m/s nu...