Janedough

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1. Is this oversleeping?

   Janedough replied to Catch22Personified's topic in Stress 101

   nothing is wrong. ive worked nights now for a year and i stopped beating myself up about my schedule. ive realized that no matter what its not normal for people to sleep during the day, and now i sleep when i sleep and work when i work. I do what i c...

2. Guys, do you wear your wedding band to work?

   Janedough replied to JaredCNA's topic in Men

   same thing can apply to women, i dont want to wear my nice ring and then clean c-dif, i would rather keep a fake in my locker and switch it out :)

3. What was the MOST ridiculous thing a patient came to the ER for?

   Janedough replied to JUSTYSMOM's topic in Emergency

   woman comes in with abd pain started an hour ago, walked into the room to her eating a turkey sandwhich and a red pop! She said "i used light mayo!"

4. Advice to the LTC nurse...

   Janedough replied to southernbeegirl's topic in Emergency

   Tiny EMT well said :)

5. ED Nurse Liason

   Janedough replied to sChOOLRN48's topic in Emergency

   This is a great position especially in an ER. Sometimes as an RN you just cant explain to the sore throat that they really are important but the guy down the hall with people pouding on his chest because he is DYING gets my attention first :) Just ha...

6. Are ER nurses burnt out or just uncaring??

   Janedough replied to futurenurseheather's topic in Emergency

   First when people come in on a board (sometimes 3 or more people) we will remove the EMS board ASAP! first and secondary assessments are done and maybe a slide board be placed so that tranfer to the ct and xray is easier. The collar may stay on for a...

7. Info for senior students in the ED

   Janedough replied to MesaRN's topic in Emergency

   Placement of the Leads: White on the right grass under clouds (white and green leads), smoke over fire (Black and red leads) poor brown in the middle (brown lead) :) 12lead is another story but the placement in important so just memory with those. ...

8. New Grad in ER HELP!

   Janedough replied to TheEmmyRN's topic in Emergency

   Dear Emmy! im also a new grad and i have cried more times in the 4 months that i have been the the ER then my entire life! I have had a bunch of bad days in a row! im off orientation and i think the nurses and doctors around me forget that. Im stil...

9. Patients that are not allowed narcotics

   Janedough replied to Jo West's topic in Emergency

   Im a new grad RN in the ED and the first problem i noticed was the amount of people coming in to try to get narcotics! at first i felt bad but once people started swearing at me saying thet wanted their bleeping dilaudid now or they were leaving!! I ...