Cathy RN

Cathy RN

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  1. GHB Rohipinol

    These are known as the date rape drugs. And from what I understand from our sexual assault team nurses,the drugs are sometimes just dropped into an individuals drink I think everyone gets the rest of the story. Some are laced with Ketamine. There is ...
  2. GHB Rohipinol

    Work in ER. Recently had a 21 yr old female brought in by ambulance. GCS 3. No deep tendon reflex could not arouse, pink warm and dry VS stable BP slightly decreased pulse 88. History was in a bar found passed out in stall by staff. They thought she ...
  3. latex allergies in ambulatory care

    What I ahve learnt at our facility that it is the powder in the gloves that distributes the latex into the air. Many of our nurses who feel they have these allergies are not testing positive on allergy testing but they know themselves the longer thei...
  4. codes

    Well many years ago ....... I worked in a CCU, I was new and it was a major hospital. When I started there I didn't know but a p wave was fit to eat. There was very little orientation back then and after two months I was put on code. I thought I was ...
  5. What experience is needed?

    Well it use to be a minimun of two years Nursing experience and you could be concidered. Now with the shortage you can go right into ER even the major trauma centers. They are in dire straights so many have put together clinical courses that they wil...
  6. Charge Nurse

    I find myself in this situation as well. Though I do have the respect of my peers we do have a lot of new staff not experienced in ER Nursing. And I have been called intimidating as well which I might add was very upsetting to me as I do not see myse...
  7. BSN minimum requirement

    OK I'm an RN 25 years this year. My Mom was an RN we graduated from the same school of Nursing. I love Nursing. I'm a Nursing advocate. I'm very involved in my Career. I consider myself a Professional. But over the years this topic has caused me grea...
  8. BSN minimum requirement

    OK I'm an RN 25 years this year. My Mom was an RN we graduated from the same school of Nursing. I love Nursing. I'm a Nursing advocate. I'm very involved in my Career. I consider myself a Professional. But over the years this topic has caused me grea...
  9. Our region is looking into the possibility of beginning a 14 mon Nursing program with a 6 wk clinical......Can you believe this. They are trying to focus on those people who for one reason or another have not been accepted into the Nursing Faculity b...
  10. what do you think?

    I work with a RN in the ER. She is most senior nurse in our facility has been ther for >390 yrs. The last few years she has been difficult to work with especially the newer nurses, me I guess I ignore her quirks and kwams. She comes on and starts ...
  11. RN"s and LPN's mandated to work as CNA's

    Good luck Chilli I am glad that you talked to the others and expressed your concerns that is the only way we can survive address ti ourselves, because nothing even seems to change or get done. The health care system is a strian on everyone. I do thi...
  12. severe itching

    My brother is an asthmatic and has been all his life. He is now 43yrs old. Two years ago he got fed up with all the meds, the weight gain etc. and right or wrong, he took himself off everything even his steriods which he had been on for years. Only t...
  13. just a little pet peeve...

    I work in an ER. I got supreme hell from a patient once when she thought the Doctor had seen someone else befoer her and she had been waiting ages to see a doctor. She left in a real huff. What had actually happened when I investigated was that a mal...
  14. Has a doctor made your day?

    I guess I'm sensitive as well, and I wasn't there either. It was nice of him to buy you all pizza. But me I prefer respect. The fact he gave you little notice of his visit doesn't show me he really showed you that. I really hope his intention was sin...
  15. RN"s and LPN's mandated to work as CNA's

    chili2641 Enough is enough of this I don't want to get in another arguement. The professional ladder is not my doing. But as education goes the LPN, CNA do not have the education the RN does to do these jobs. End of point. You can have a masters in B...