etceducator

etceducator has 9 years experience and specializes in emergency/ peds ER.

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1. Would you continue to work here ?

   etceducator replied to carachel2's topic in Emergency

   Sounds like ER nursing to me. Either you love it or you don't. Those same regulations will be everywhere- not just ER.

2. Funny Sign In Slips

   etceducator replied to TraumaInTheSlot's topic in Emergency

   Are you ready for this one??? "She has a peace of meat over her virginia" ANy ideas???? ARE you ready???? 2 yo F with labial adhesions- definitely one I will never forget. Always makes me laugh

3. Fibromyalgia

   etceducator replied to veetach's topic in Emergency

   Let me start by saying I am an ER nurse and I have been for 10 years. I have fibromyalgia. I am not depressed nor do I pop oxycontin all day. I hurt every day, but I get up and go to work and eat right and exercise to make it bearable. Who are we as ...

4. Picis Pulsecheck?

   etceducator replied to KristinWW's topic in Emergency

   We use it at my ED. For the most part, I like it. It definitely helps the nurses keep up with their patients and it helps me to see what is going on in all departments. I think you will like it.

5. EKGs in triage?

   etceducator replied to etceducator's topic in Emergency

   Thank you for all the responses. We already have a STEMI protocol and do great on EMS patient presentations and classic chest pain presentations to triage. I guess where I am struggling are with the not so classic AMI symptoms. Do you do rapid triage...

6. EKGs in triage?

   etceducator posted a topic in Emergency

   We are looking for a way to decrease our door to EKG time (particularly for possible STEMI patients). Do any of you do EKGs in triage to screen patients for possible MI? If so, how do you do this? I vaguely remember learning that EKGs need to be done...

7. sacrifical lamb=triage nurse

   etceducator replied to Uptoherern's topic in Emergency

   I feel your pain! I am the clinical nurse educator for an emergency department. Sounds like triage is pretty much the same everywhere. I am working on a triage education program to try and develop our triage nurses. However, it is a difficult task. ...