Lurksalot BSN, RN

Hi there. I am curious as to what sort of interview questions you were asked when you applied to the ER, either as a new RN or an experienced one. TY ?

I see lots of posts about passing or failing with 75 questions, just curious what the stats are. I would like to think that nursing school prepares us enough that those who get 75 are mostly passing?

Same one where "I was vomiking so I took a bambulance to the ER" is a primary complaint.

Keep laughing and you will be fine. I started in ER, and had a 6 month orientation. First ICU patient I had all by myself, I was so excited, thought I did a great job, had all my tubes and lines nice and neat and orderly, all my meds given, patien...

well, I cruise facebook while I'm supposed to be on blackboard. But if the instructor really wants me, it all goes through school email.

couple bottle of 5 hour power drink.

haha, its not my hands that would talk, it's my aching wrists from computer charting and writing papers for school. Ouch!

I am very sorry to hear you are going through something like this. I know it is probably the hardest thing in the world to keep your head up & face scrunity straight on, especially when you know you didn't do anything wrong. Stay strong, lean on ...

...and let me tell you I am numb. It was completely crazy. I was with a fantastic experienced nurse, and wow I wish I had a tape recorder, I think I learned more from this nurse in one day than I did in the entire last semester of clinicals. I am s...

The only thing that should have happened is that your instructor takes the opportunity to show you how to correctly mark a documentation error. The correct way to strike out a written error is to put a single line through the entry, initial and date...

Thanks for all the input everyone. It is very enlightening to see the different ways places are staffed. Soon we will be expanding our Ed, and your responses have given me some ideas for discussion at our next meeting. The structuring is one thing,...

Curious if your ER has any sort of ratio for nurses to patients. In my ED, for example, we self-assign patients most of the time. At shift change, we will be assigned patients from the offgoing nurse, but then we pick up new patients as we are able...

rule: Bring in a list of your 15+ medications... not all of the bottles in a trash bag with the labels worn off rule: Don't come straight from your doctors office visit for a "second opinion" and then holler at the nurse because of the wait time to b...

Has anyone used the HESI CD to study and then taken the HESI exit exam? What were your scores on the CD vs your HESI score? Reason I am asking is because many of my friends and I are getting scores ranging from the 60's to the 80's on the HESI pra...

IV placement really is a skill that gets better through practice, lots and lots of practice. Don't be too hard on yourself, you will get the hang of it. If I miss a stick on a patient I usually look them in the eye and say "I'm so sorry, this one is...

No, you are not wrong. I once had a patient who came in eating fries from a bag of mcdonald's who stated that he had 10/10 pain as he smiled and giggled at my question. I said "No, sir, I do not think you understand what I am asking. On a scale of ...

"I've got a bullet coming out of my leg" (yes, he ambulated in & really had an embedded bullet making its way out of his leg like a splinter) "My baby had a bug on his head today. Can't find it now." "Uhmm, a bottle is stuck up...there. Don't kn...

My triage complaint for the week: Family member accompanied patient. Family member is dressed in scrubs and has some sort of badge on I can't see (and don't care to see). Family member speaks for the patient, patient says nothing. I ask if the pa...

I am going out on a limb here and displaying my ignorance of this subject, but all I can think of as I read your post was "why did anyone have the right to your health information?" If anyone could enlighten me on the law, please do. But to me, you...

Ask your instructor if you may take home a primary IV bag and a smaller piggy-back medicine bag (we had practice ones filled with water, maybe you have something similar?). Take the smaller bag, draw some food coloring up into a syringe, and inject ...

I totally agree, it's abuse of the system. I was trying to explain that I understand why it happens, on many different levels. I still educate my patients on inappropriate use of the ER, and I try to give them resources to get the primary care help...

That was a good article, but I'm not suprised at the facts. I really don't blame people for using the ED the way they do when they've tried to do everything the right way, schedule their specialist appointments for months away, wait weeks to get sim...

Yes, I had a very similar order...rectal temp on pt...well, the patient did not have a rectum. I wrote in the temp with "oral" next to it and gave it to the attending, who immediately began to rip me one. I said very quietly, "didn't the resident t...

I have just completed a study on this topic that is currently submitted for publication, and I can tell you there are a ton of published studies out there in academic literature. It would probably suit your needs to do your own search of the literatu...