runawaytrain

runawaytrain has 1 years experience and specializes in ED.

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1. Looooooong rant... Condescending nurse... advice please!

   runawaytrain replied to alkaleidi's topic in Emergency

   Ugh! As both a new ED nurse and a new grad, I feel your pain. There is a nurse I work with who is like that with me, too. I have kept this in for so long and now I actually have a place to let it out! Here goes... This nurse, we'll call her "Sue...

2. Personality Traits common in the ED

   runawaytrain replied to trinitygrad07's topic in Emergency

   I like the ADD one, but it's better to have ADHD so you don't get tired as easily!!! It also helps to have a good sense of humor and as close to endless patience as you can get. Some of the reasons people come in just make you shake your head and s...

3. Stupidest reason to go to ER

   runawaytrain replied to DachRN's topic in Emergency

   Ah, it's a bonding experience. I bet they had a contest on who's labs came back the worst... That kind of makes me truly believe that some people really do call up their friends and meet up at the ED, like it's The Spot or something. "Let's go to C...

4. Stupidest reason to go to ER

   runawaytrain replied to DachRN's topic in Emergency

   Here's one from the other night: "My baby was on her back and I left the room just for a minute and when I came back, she was on her belly, crying!" 15min later... "My baby needs to see a doctor NOW! Something is wrong with her!" (baby is sleeping q...

5. I need CN advice!!!

   runawaytrain posted a topic in Emergency

   At the ED I work in, after a year, you can have a charge nurse position. We are needing a CN to replace an old one and it's about that time for me and no one else in the ED seems interested in the position. I was wondering if I could get some advic...

6. Got any funny acronyms at your ER???

   runawaytrain replied to RNin92's topic in Emergency

   We have an entire hall dedicated to SANE cases and pelvic beds. Along with Busch Gardens, we have... Vadge Valley Vadge Alley The Vagina Monologues P---- Passageway C--- Cove And my favorite prescription from a doctor: A bar of soap and directions ...

7. A Generation of Wimps?

   runawaytrain replied to EDNewbie's topic in Emergency

   Now, now! Speaking as a person in her early 20's and not as a nurse, I will say that I am not a weinie. I was brought up with the notion (as long as I wasn't contagious) that "you can be sick at home, or you can be sick at school/work/etc..." Gran...

8. What does it take to be an ED nurse, and should a new grad even try?

   runawaytrain replied to futurecnm's topic in Emergency

   I graduated in May of 07 and started working in the third busiest ED in the state a week later and I'll tell you what, it is a shark tank. Coworkers will be catty and sometimes very jaded in their work. The thing is, though, is that it's not as bad...