NurseWilliam

OK. Laughing my arse off now. Thank you very much.

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 him. It seems that his main isue is pain control, b...

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 it.

"I said I wanted a BUD light!" :rotfl:

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 "scissors."

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 of the head in perfect formation. It either drools ...

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. However, IMO more care could have been taken by t...

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 in practice before "coming down." The hospital in...

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 sure as shootin' beats being paralyzed from the ne...

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 women were. And while I tip my hat to ANY nurse who a...

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 truck?" And now, I'm a nurse too. And wouldn't you ...

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 who have asked me to perform procedures for their m...

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, maybe we could get the important things done.:dea...

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 bigger picture, there are many, many more important t...

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 the art, science, practice, and profession of nur...

The men and women who flew old rag-and-string biplanes were called "pilots." The men and women who fly Mach 2+ super-sophisticated air superiority fighters today are called "pilots." Discounting the immense value inherent in the title of "nurse" is a...

It depends on who is pushing for the change and why. A nurse by any other name is still a nurse, just as a "public sanitation engineer" is still a trash collector. I personally view the drive to change our title as just more PC rubbish meant to make ...

I wear Adidas or Spalding running shoes. Great arch support and heel/toe cushioning. I tried Klogs and hated them. They kept flying off my feet when I responded to codes, and I got tired of arriving sans one shoe. I also get my shoes from a discount ...

I went through the insanity of school to become a NURSE. I am a NURSE. I am not a "patient care specialist." I am a NURSE. I am not a MALE nurse. I am a NURSE. I wonder how well it would go over if I referred a patient to that LADY doctor. When my da...

Bingo! You got that right!

I have heard the same from a host of L&D and LC RNs. But ironically, one of the major risk factors for NEC is early enteral feeding (Wong et al., 2002). In light of that, I wonder if it is possible that the preemie's gut at a certain point simply...

Dude, highlight the everlovin' crap outta that book. You won't get nearly what you put into it, anyway. Besides, nursing is a continuous educational process. Hang on to the relevant material. Ditch the nursing history.

In the ER, I once answered the call light of a woman in her sixties for whom I had been attending. I asked her what I could do for her. She answered, "I'm just planning my trip to Mexico, and I was wondering if you would be interested in coming with ...

My wife calls lactation consultants "milk nazis." When she had problems breastfeeding our son, and was considering switching to formula, the LCRNs treated her like she had tried to stab our kid with a fork. Breastfeeding is wonderful, ladies. If you ...

Who watches the kids while I work? My wife does. She stays at home and does so because she wants to. She does 99.99% of the work anyway.