leder

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1. Say What??????!!!!!!!!!!

   leder replied to gt4everpn's topic in Relations

   Had an elderly woman with a difficult IV start. She said they often have to call the " flight attendants" to start her IV's. (The flight team based out of our hospital will sometimes help with difficult IV starts)

2. What was the MOST BIZARRE thing a pt has been brought to ER for (and lived to tell)?

   leder replied to cari rn's topic in Emergency

   We had a gentleman come in with the leg of a bar stool in his eye. Apparently after drinking a few too many, he was bench pressing a bar stool with someone sitting on it and it slipped. Amazingly, it did not go into his brain, but he did lose the eye...

3. ER Nurses Treated Different in my Hospital!

   leder replied to Jen2's topic in Emergency

   Well said ERERER!! I have been an ER nurse for 31 years and your observation are right on target. We really do not try to hold patients to transport at shift change. Nursing IS a tough profession no matter where we work and I think the least we c...