NurseWilliam

NurseWilliam specializes in Emergency.

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1. phone calls no outsider would believe

   NurseWilliam replied to JBudd's topic in Emergency

   OK. Laughing my orifice off now. Thank you very

2. phone calls no outsider would believe

   NurseWilliam replied to JBudd's topic in Emergency

   I just got a call tonight from an Aid Unit: Aid Unit: "We have a patient who has come to your ED for the last two nights for pain secondary to a motorcycle accident. We are not sure how to deal with...

3. ER Nurses. Read This!

   NurseWilliam replied to ERERER's topic in Emergency

   Wow. I love my job. I wouldn't trade ER nursing for all the tea in China. This was an exceptionally nice piece. thanks for sharing

4. Funny Sign In Slips

   NurseWilliam replied to TraumaInTheSlot's topic in Emergency

   "I said I wanted a BUD light!"

5. Funny Sign In Slips

   NurseWilliam replied to TraumaInTheSlot's topic in Emergency

   I had a woman bring her child to the triage desk and tell us that the child had "big scissors". She meant seizures, of course, but pronounced it

6. Questions about trauma I witnessed. (LONG)

   NurseWilliam replied to GermPhobe's topic in Emergency

   Live brain tissue also has a semi-liquid, tapioca-like consistency (sorry for grossing out the tapioca thing). In an open head injury, it's not like the brain or parts thereof just sort of plop out...

7. Here's a question for all of you ER nurses (sad and kind of long)

   NurseWilliam replied to Lisky90's topic in Emergency

   First, please accept my most sincere sympathy for your loss. Having read the posts of others who mentioned it being a coroner's case, I concur that it is important to leave everything on /in the body....

8. Views on New Grads Entering the ER.

   NurseWilliam replied to ICUNurse11's topic in Emergency

   I think that as long as a solid preceptorship program is in place, having a new grad join the ER is fine. But if no such program is in place, I feel that it is certainly better to have some experience...

9. Is a backboard for transport only, or immobilization while in the ER?

   NurseWilliam replied to vampireslayer's topic in Emergency

   As a general rule in my ER, we keep C/S trauma patients on the board until we see a negative CT/MRI result. It's really better to be safe than sorry, and while it is uncomfortable for the patient, it...

10. Male Nurses/female Patients

    NurseWilliam replied to ern91's topic in Men in Nursing

    And oh, by the way... IMO, if we've become a gender-fixated society with regard to nursing, we have the feminist-oriented ANA to blame for a great deal of that problem. Men were nurses LONG before...

11. Male Nurses/female Patients

    NurseWilliam replied to ern91's topic in Men in Nursing

    I know what you're talking about! My dad got his BSN from Alderson-Broaddus College in Philippi. I used to get teased mercilessly from other kids- "Your daddy's a nurse? What's yer momma do, drive a...

12. Male Nurses/female Patients

    NurseWilliam replied to ern91's topic in Men in Nursing

    I don't have a problem caring for a female patient. However, if the patient prefers female assistance with certain procedures, I respect the patient's wishes if at all possible. I know female nurses...

13. Does the term 'Nurse' bother you?

    NurseWilliam replied to Ekklesia's topic in Men in Nursing

    You're absolutely right. I have wasted enough time on this. I will not spend any more time dwelling on it. Now if those who were expending so much energy trying to change our titles would do the same,...

14. Does the term 'Nurse' bother you?

    NurseWilliam replied to Ekklesia's topic in Men in Nursing

    I simply do not agree with the assertion by some that this is a critical issue. I think this is really a silly thing for college-educated people to be so preoccupied with. I just think that in the...

15. Does the term 'Nurse' bother you?

    NurseWilliam replied to Ekklesia's topic in Men in Nursing

    I understand what you're saying. But we aren't talking about changing uniforms or standards. We are talking about changing our title- as if changing what we are called will somehow magically transform...