JordieRNCCRN

JordieRNCCRN has 12 years experience and specializes in Emergency Medicine.

Latest Activity

1. What can I do with my MSN-FNP that doesn't require much patient contact

   JordieRNCCRN replied to FNPStudentLife's topic in NP

   Please don’t take this the wrong way, but you have no business being an FNP if you don’t like taking care of patients.

2. New Trauma Nurse Help

   JordieRNCCRN replied to Mariah87's topic in Emergency

   I could not disagree more about "only doing blood transfusions, labs and charting the primary and secondary assessments". Your job is to do those things, but go behind the doctor, do your assessments, make sure you have all of the supplies you need, ...

3. ER patient wanting pain Meds

   JordieRNCCRN replied to stephfoun10's topic in Emergency

   Hey, I'm an ED nurse in a level one trauma, stroke and PCI center. As a busy 50-bed ED, often with 20+ people in the lobby, we have a policy that ED patients who are not being admitted cannot receive narcotics without a driver. If they inadvertently ...

4. An ER nurse who passed CCRN!

   JordieRNCCRN posted a topic in Emergency

   So, I recently took my CCRN and passed on the first try. Most nurses, including ER nurses think that the CCRN is just for ICU. There were a LOT of questions which began with "A XX yr old pt presents to the ED with...". It really frustrates me that mo...