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  1. Phasing out LPN's.

    ED RN 911 replied to BJ, LPN's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    Our Hosptial phased out all Techs, CNAs and LPNs. The have onle RN,s and have hireed Paramedics that have the same job description as the Nurses. No more cheap labor for us the nurses and medics...

  2. NP's in the EM Department

    ED RN 911 replied to MikeyJ's topic in Emergency

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  3. ETT Cuff Pressure

    ED RN 911 replied to Possum's topic in Emergency

    ETT Cuff preasure should only be regulated by individuals that are trained to intubate. (MD, Paramedics, and some RT's) No one else should ever tamper with a

  4. NP's in the EM Department

    ED RN 911 replied to MikeyJ's topic in Emergency

    Our ER used to have 2 NP's and a PA and they slowly weeded them out and hired four Physician-Extender Paramedics to do the same job. They are not limited to who they see and see every type of Pt that...

  5. ETT Cuff Pressure

    ED RN 911 replied to Possum's topic in Emergency

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  6. ETT Cuff Pressure

    ED RN 911 replied to Possum's topic in Emergency

    ETT Cuff preasure should only be regulated by individuals that are trained to intubate. (MD, Paramedics, and some RT's) No one else should ever tamper with a

  7. New ED Tech--

    ED RN 911 replied to Pose's topic in Emergency

    Have you started yet?? Soon you will see that being a RN is easy and that a well trained monkey could do it, well maybe after the monkey goes through orientation. LOL Good

  8. NP's in the EM Department

    ED RN 911 replied to MikeyJ's topic in Emergency

    Our ER used to have 2 NP's and a PA and they slowly weeded them out and hired four Physician-Extender Paramedics to do the same job. They are not limited to who they see and see every type of Pt that...

  9. New ED Tech--

    ED RN 911 replied to Pose's topic in Emergency

    You will be able to do it, after about two weeks you will have it down. In the ER I work in we have Nurses and Medics that have identical jobs and a few techs and to tell you the truth to be a tech...

  10. what treatment do patients who present with migraines......

    ED RN 911 replied to froghair's topic in Emergency

    No such thing as .9ns It is 0.9

  11. Room assignments and pt load.

    ED RN 911 replied to hollykate's topic in Emergency

    40 bed ER Level I. We are staffed with only RN's and Medics, we each take a room assignment of normally 3-4 beds each. Usually goes like 1 crit bed and 3 monitored beds per RN or Medic. We have no...

  12. NP's in the ED

    ED RN 911 replied to WhitDogg19's topic in Emergency

    As I have stated before, our ER rely alot on Paramedics, and they actual have two different classifications for them. They have about the same ratio of nurses to medics, and they operate off of the...

  13. Er Salary

    ED RN 911 replied to nursern20's topic in Emergency

    In our ER, RN's and Medics are started off the same pay grid at about $32-36 an hour, plus cert

  14. Lasix and Foley for female patients..automatic ?

    ED RN 911 replied to carachel2's topic in Emergency

    No not laying off... LOL, But they have cut back on RN hiring. They pay the Medics of the same pay scale as the Nurses, due to the fact the they are Licensed and have a AS Degree. If you came to...

  15. Lasix and Foley for female patients..automatic ?

    ED RN 911 replied to carachel2's topic in Emergency

    Being new to the ER you shouldn't rely on your Techs to do your work. They are there to be part of your team. In my ER they phased out the Techs and brought in Paramedics that have a identical job...

  16. Lasix and Foley for female patients..automatic ?

    ED RN 911 replied to carachel2's topic in Emergency

    Needless to say, they kept me running for the few hours they were held in the ED (we had no tech on duty). What does having a tech on duty have to do with

  17. RN intubation in ED?

    ED RN 911 replied to Firemedic7's topic in Emergency

    We as Rn's in the ER and the RT's as well are not even allowed to do daily checks on the intubation equipment, cus here it is out of our scope. Only the Medics and MD intubate in the hospital...

  18. Question regarding nurses wasting narcs with city paramedics in the ER????????

    ED RN 911 replied to austin heart's topic in Emergency

    In our ER the only ones that are allowed to waste Narcs with Street Medics are the in-house ER Medics and the MD. This goes along with the report also, when a medic brings in a Pt they can only give...