ByTheLake

ByTheLake

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  1. What are your pet peeves?

    Let me share with you some of the most common responses I get to "When was the first day of your last period?" ... I'm on it now. ... It just finished. ... I haven't start yet this month. ... It just ended yesterday. It's actually one of the things t...
  2. Being a Patient Where you Work

    Yes. I wouldn't dare go to any other ER in town. Here, I know the nurses and doctors, I know there are just a couple of each I need to avoid, and the rest are going to take great care of me. I've brought in my son for stitches, daughter for stitches ...
  3. ER RN's with anxiety disorders?

    Agreed. SSRIs are very slow-acting medications (they literally take MONTHS to reach full efficacy). Benzos are highly addictive medications to which a patient can develop high tolerance. (Needing Ativan on top of 3mg Klonopin and claiming no sedation...
  4. Discrimination Against Ethnic/Minority Names

    Do you not even see the hypocrisy of this statement?? Do you really assume that there are no whites who live in areas where whites are the minority? Do you really think no whites have ever experience racism or discrimination based on the color of the...
  5. how to ask patient for pain scale score correctly?

    This one is also relevant: xkcd: Spinal Tap Amps
  6. Recieving a patient from ER

    **snicker** Going to have to steal this line. As to ER nurses "lying" to get a patient up, I'm not saying it doesn't happen, but I don't think it's a fair characteristic of ER nurses, and I don't think it is *exclusive* to ER nurses. For instance, we...
  7. Okay, so I've been bugging the powers that be at my hospital for weeks now to find out what I need to do, but so far they have done zip. I found this file: http://www.thyca.org/ataradiation.pdf but their guidelines for returning to work if you work w...
  8. ACLS Heartcode via AHA?

    "But at skills check, they were definitely available and willing to answer any lingering questions." Yeah, but at skills check, you're pretty much done, and only have to demonstrate the ability to do rapid, high-quality compressions, and adequately ...
  9. But did your increased understanding and empathy have anything like a desired outcome--like your patients (if you still care for them directly) actually damaging themselves less and taking care of themselves more? If not, then all the empathy in the ...
  10. PA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA! No. Their point is not to be useful in the real world. Their purpose is to justify their paychecks (or create them) by getting grant funding for the next study. Most of the questions asked by these studies could be answe...
  11. Vent: "I should warn you, I'm a tough stick..."

    Every time someone tells me that I grin REALLY big and say "Oh, I just LOVE a challenge! Woot!" and dig in. I did that once to a young man "hard stick" and afterwards getting an 18g on the first try, I stood up, held out a flush straight ahead of me,...
  12. ACLS Heartcode via AHA?

    That's all we have available to us. I think it's fine for renewals, but I desperately wish I could have taken a live, in-person class for my initial ACLS cert because then I could have asked questions. I also absolutely LOATHE the fact that I can't P...
  13. It's not just about the ability to stick a trumpet in someone's nose, or an oral airway in place, it's about the ability to be able to rescue a patient if something goes wrong, and even to recognize when it's really the best course of action. Even if...
  14. What do you hate seeing the MOST in the ER!?

    [" how long is the wait?". Do we look like a freakin' Olive Garden?] EGADS YES!!! We've had crazy long waits recently, and I can't STAND to have people up at the window every flipping 20 minutes wanting to know how long the wait is, even though Every...
  15. What do you hate seeing the MOST in the ER!?

    The ones who shouldn't be there. Ear ache since.... this morning. Sniffles for 2 days, hasn't taken any cold medicine. Headache since last night, hoped it would go away but it didn't, now it's an emergency even though they didn't even try taking Tyle...