ErikWeeWoo BSN, RN, EMT-P

ErikWeeWoo has 12 years experience as a BSN, RN, EMT-P and specializes in ED/ICU/EMS.

Latest Activity

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   Case Study: Child With Altered Mental Status

   ErikWeeWoo posted a topic in Pediatric

   EMS Report EMS brings the patient into the assigned room and transfers her to the bed via sheet drag. "This is Kayleigh; she's 11 years old and coming from home today. Parents report she has been 'acting strange' for a few days now, quieter ...
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   Don't know how this guy lived

   ErikWeeWoo posted a topic in Emergency

   Just have to share this one, it's too crazy to not... 20yo male college student arrived in police custody by police cruiser, local campus PD on a domestic violence charge. Moderately disoriented to place/situation and intermittently unconscious at ti...
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   Switching to children’s psych from adult psych?

   ErikWeeWoo replied to Nj0y_'s topic in Psychiatric

   I work occasionally in psych emergency department as an RN, used to be a psych tech for both adult & peds units back when I was an EMT. I definitely found working with the kiddos to be more difficult, not really at any fault of the children...
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   Stroke Sx’s....Complacent Teachers

   ErikWeeWoo replied to schoolnurse1118's topic in School

   I honestly think you did a pretty good job. Her co-workers may or may not of had duty to act, failure to act on their part is no reflection on you and likely something that nobody can or will be held accountable for. Depending on the laws of your sta...
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   Intubation Should Be A Nursing Skill, Especially Now

   ErikWeeWoo replied to ErikWeeWoo's topic in COVID

   I'm going to geek out a bit if that's okay, hopefully others find this interesting. Basically everything about the avian respiratory system is really cool and unique. The avian respiratory cycle actually consists of 2 inhalations and 2 exhalations. ...
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   Intubation Should Be A Nursing Skill, Especially Now

   ErikWeeWoo replied to ErikWeeWoo's topic in COVID

   I don't have that many intubations, but I have more than most of my EMS coworkers and I'm pretty comfortable with it, I'm not doing it daily either. I'd agree with you that normal canid anatomy is generally conducive to a relatively easy intubation a...
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   Intubation Should Be A Nursing Skill, Especially Now

   ErikWeeWoo replied to ErikWeeWoo's topic in COVID

   Given how medicine works right now, never because it's usually considered an MD skill - however, once upon a time in history even IVs were considered an MD only skill. If it was a nursing skill though (both in the eyes of legal scope of practice &...
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   Intubation Should Be A Nursing Skill, Especially Now

   ErikWeeWoo posted a topic in COVID

   When I was in high school, I worked at an animal sanctuary/wildlife park. They wanted me to be a vet tech, so I was going to a vet tech program at the community college during my senior year in high school. That program wasn't even 2 years, so I was ...
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   What's up with the RN vs Paramedic hate?

   ErikWeeWoo posted a topic in General Nursing

   I've been active in EMS for 8 years and have been active as an RN for 6 years. I don't understand where all the tension between RNs and Paramedics comes from. It's very much so two different specialties, but there's significant overlap. It seem...
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    Covid-19 Vaccine Trials in South Africa: Another Tuskegee? #Black Lives Matter Around the World

    ErikWeeWoo replied to simba and mufasa's topic in COVID

    This isn't happening just in Africa. Vaccine experiments are happening in the US and other countries as well. It's important to test something like this among many populations, and I don't understand why one primarily black population is an ethical i...