TeriLuvsER

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1. Disappointed in Nursing

   TeriLuvsER replied to HannahRN24's topic in General Nursing

   Hannah, One of the greatest things about nursing is that there are so many different specialties that if you decide you don't like one you can easily find something else to try. I swore I never would do med/surg or floor nursing after doing clinical...

2. First job - nurse extern in ER

   TeriLuvsER replied to notquiteanurse's topic in Emergency

   Hey Nichole, Good luck w/ your extern program...I did the same thing when I graduated from nursing school and jumped into a level 1 trauma center. The one thing I recommend is that you work in a program that has a good (to include a decent amount of...

3. Wanting to know about life in the e.r!

   TeriLuvsER replied to britishwannabenurse's topic in Emergency

   Hey Amber, I just wanted to tell you not to be disheartened w/ the profession...what I recommend is you take the things that you don't like about nursing and decide to do better.....we ALL have our moments where we vent about things that we have to d...

4. silly question re: shadowing an RN

   TeriLuvsER replied to Altra's topic in Emergency

   Yes, bring your stethoscope...anything you would usually use taking care of patients. Granted you might not be able to do anything but it certainly looks better if you come prepared...if we didn't have a stethoscope w/ us when I was in school you'd ...

5. high fever in 1 year old

   TeriLuvsER replied to caringRN's topic in General Nursing

   I work in a military hospital and have found that whenever a little one under two is brought in with a high fever (this is the ER, mind you) a septic work up is done to r/o meningitis. This means the whole nine yards...we do a cath urine, iv to draw...

6. Wanting to know about life in the e.r!

   TeriLuvsER replied to britishwannabenurse's topic in Emergency

   Hey There, ER nursing can be a little different depending on the type of system you have at your hospital...one thing (at least at the level one trauma center I worked at) is that those patients who come into your trauma bay typically aren't there fo...

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

   TeriLuvsER replied to JUSTYSMOM's topic in Emergency

   The craziest thing I've ever seen is a patient coming in to have a qtip removed from his ear. The qtip had broken in half....for all the time he spent complaining about his wait he could have focused his attention on simply taking his fingers and pu...