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1. Bkat

   orange-rn posted a topic in Emergency

   Has anyone taken this exam? I have been an ER nurse for 3 years and recently changed jobs. I had to take the BKAT test and did not pass! I felt so stupid, but a lot of the questions were what would you do first. Example: 16yr. old came in w/GSW. Wha...

2. Ben Taub Hospital Emergency Room

   orange-rn replied to HappyNursey07's topic in Emergency

   Ben Taub is not just an ER it's a level 1 ER. Very busy place to work! I actually work in the sister hopital of Ben Taub. It seems a lot of RN's like it there. You have to be able to work fast and work under pressure!

3. PDA software??

   orange-rn replied to onmywaytoRN's topic in Emergency

   Try www.pepid.com . I use this program called RN suite it's awesome!

4. Christmas Songs For The Psychiatrically Challenged

   orange-rn replied to lozza81's topic in Emergency

   HAHAHAHA! I LOVE IT!

5. Highest BP you have ever seen on a pt

   orange-rn replied to nckayaker's topic in Emergency

   Last night in our shock room had a pt with a BP of 278/177, hr 111. Pt went from icu status to being discharge home! Renal functions messed up. Had h/o HTN out of meds for a few weeks. He was laughing and joking with us. He was put on a Nipride dr...

6. Funniest injury you have ever seen.....

   orange-rn replied to MrsWampthang's topic in Emergency

   Over a span of 4 days we had 3 foriegn bodies. 1st one was a pt. with an apple up his rear, yes he fell on it. The 2nd was a pt. who for some odd reason pt his penis into a gatorade bottle and when he couldn't remove it tried to cut the bottle off...

7. Latex Allergy

   orange-rn replied to orange-rn's topic in Emergency

   Thank you for the replies. I'm pretty miserable. I have swollen fingers that have split open in several spots, swollen lip that swells and my eyes are swollen and itch like crazy! The solumedrol has me pretty hazy feeling, can't seem to concentrat...

8. Latex Allergy

   orange-rn posted a topic in Emergency

   I may be allergic to latex! I have tried non-latex powder free gloves and it's not working. I had a full blood work up at the allergist yesterday. I have also been put on solumedrol pack, allegra, zyrtec, zantac, and doxipin. I also got 8mg decad...

9. Want to move to Spring, TX, please help

   orange-rn replied to Born2Nurse's topic in Texas

   The traffic is awful! If you work night shift you will miss the traffic. Starting salary 24.00-26.00 $ per hr. Spring is a nice area to live in. Area hospitals: Houston Northwest Medical center and Cyfair Hospital -Tenet owned. Memorial Herman -Wood...

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

    orange-rn replied to ER-RN2's topic in Emergency

    "I'm hungry" as soon as they get there. We tell patients that we don't feed people in the ER unless it's medically necessary. This drives me crazy! The ones with abd. pain 10/10 eating chips and drinking coke. This is when we inform the DR. that ...

11. Tom Cruises' take on Psychiatry

    orange-rn replied to Katydidit34's topic in Psychiatric

    Why don't we put Tom boy in a lock down unit PICU and see how he feels about chemical imbalances?:rotfl:

12. mandatory scrubs?

    orange-rn replied to NativeTexan's topic in Emergency

    Wearing White! Yuck! We Wear Royal Blue Or Black Or A Combo Of The 2. Love The All Black!

13. IV Starts

    orange-rn replied to RoaminHankRN's topic in General Nursing

    x2 tries if not successful call another rn. last resort ...have attending start ej line.

14. Shands jacksonville-Er

    orange-rn replied to orange-rn's topic in Florida

    Thanks for the info! I already work in a very busy ED. I work in a county hospital level 3. We have er holding-obs and I love it! Still curios what nurse to pt. ratio is. I don't think HR could tell me that.

15. Shands jacksonville-Er

    orange-rn posted a topic in Florida

    Has anyone worked at Shands ER? I currently live in Houston, thinking of moving to Jax to be close to family. What is the pay rate and pt. ratio in the ED? Thanks for your time!