ErikWeeWoo BSN, RN, EMT-P

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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...
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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...
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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...
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    Intubation Should Be A Nursing Skill, Especially Now

    ErikWeeWoo posted a topic in Disaster Preparation

    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...
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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...
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    Intubation Should Be A Nursing Skill, Especially Now

    ErikWeeWoo replied to ErikWeeWoo's topic in Disaster Preparation

    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...
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    Intubation Should Be A Nursing Skill, Especially Now

    ErikWeeWoo replied to ErikWeeWoo's topic in Disaster Preparation

    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...
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    Intubation Should Be A Nursing Skill, Especially Now

    ErikWeeWoo replied to ErikWeeWoo's topic in Disaster Preparation

    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...
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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...
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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 Disaster Preparation

    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...