debbyed

debbyed

ER, Hospice, CCU, PCU

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  1. Got any funny acronyms at your ER???

    debbyed replied to RNin92's topic in Emergency

    Had an old Doc many years ago that had acronyms for everything. I forget most. LGDNN - Look Good Do Nothing Nurse:nurse: BBLN - Busy Bee, Lousy Nurse:imbar HDAH - Heart Doctor with Absent...

  2. SO Exhausted

    debbyed replied to SnowymtnRN's topic in Emergency

    When I was much younger I thought 12 hour shift were a gift sent from whomever. Work 3 days a week with 4 off. Now that I'm over 50 I really really really would like to only have to work 8...

  3. Why are emergency nurses not considered critical care nurses?

    debbyed replied to JessicRN's topic in Emergency

    :welcome: The only difference I see is attitude. ER nurses look at the critical problem, stabilize it and than treat and street or treat and ship; Whereas Critical Care nurses look at the whole...

  4. Desperately need your advice ED nurses!

    debbyed replied to SteveNNP's topic in Emergency

    You need to do what your heart tells you to do. You may make the change, find it is not to your liking and move on. At least you tried. If you don't try you will never, ever know if that was where...

  5. Free-standing ER

    debbyed replied to HealthyRN's topic in Emergency

    If this is like a patient first center or Urgent care center with mainly non-urgent patients 6-1 is about the norm around here. If this is however a true ER anything above 1-4 can be a serious...

  6. Open mouth, insert foot.

    debbyed replied to screwielouie's topic in Nursing Humor

    :lol2:

  7. Yeah, I was very tired...

    debbyed replied to Reprimandy's topic in Nursing Humor

    several months ago i had worked a 16 hour shift in the er {very, very busy night} stopped at my usual gas station on the way home and proceeded to drive right back to work, get out of the car and...

  8. Charting Bloopers

    debbyed replied to AHarri66's topic in Nursing Humor

    Written in the transfer notes on a patient received from a nursing home. "Pt has had no temperture for 3 days and keeps falling off the

  9. Share The Weirdest Reasons Patients Push The Call Light

    debbyed replied to RN06-NP09's topic in Nursing Humor

    "sweetheart, can you get me that little bottle of booze that was in my pants pocket. for some reason somebody took away my clothes and i'm very, very thirsty" this from a 62 year old woman who...

  10. I've Been Afflicted With Yet Another Virus

    debbyed replied to FranEMTnurse's topic in Nursing Humor

    In my neck of the concrete woods we call this Flu "Part-ziemers" since it doesn't occure "Al" the time.

  11. reference check from closed facility

    debbyed replied to Ms.RN's topic in Nursing Career

    You are entitled to a copy of your personel file. I would ask for it now. Make sure it includes copies of your evualations. I would also ask your current supervisor(s) and co-workers for a written...

  12. Interview Questions for NM

    debbyed replied to mamma's topic in Nurse Management

    Mydesygn, Thanks for the site. We have interviews for Clinical Leaders comming up shortly, and hopefully will have interviews for a new Nurse Manager in the near future. Ours resigned abruptly last...

  13. Interview Questions for NM

    debbyed replied to mamma's topic in Nurse Management

    Ask them how they would discribe their style of management. Ask what is the one strenght you would like to instill in your staff What is the one weakness you would search out and destroy. Ask them to...

  14. Family who dictates Pt's care in ER, sorry long

    debbyed replied to ER06's topic in Emergency

    Through-out my experience I have found that many time an adult child has feelings of frustration and guilt when they are forced by circumstances {may it be health, money or time} to put a parent into...

  15. CNA ED jobs...best way to get them?

    debbyed replied to ejmonroe's topic in Emergency

    Maverick had the right idea..Persistance, Persistance,

  16. Medications

    debbyed replied to mysticalwaters1's topic in Emergency

    We had loose leaf notebooks at both our pixis's. In plastic sleeves are copies of drip charts for all the drips we use. you just take out one and tape it to the side of the IV pump, especially if...

  17. ER RN Angry & Frustrated!!!

    debbyed replied to Ginger35's topic in Emergency

    You have received great answers R/T the backboard. I'd like to finish you question with what a 16 yr can consent to and what she can't. In the state of Maryland if a child under the age of 18 arrives...

  18. Rn Student Interested In Er

    debbyed replied to mom2three's topic in Emergency

    The best leverage is to apply for a Tech position in the ER either Part Time or PRN. At our hospital these folks work as SN 1's or SN 2's depending where you are in your classes. You function as an...

  19. New grad

    debbyed replied to bluekitty's topic in Emergency

    You could keep looking or take another job at the hospital you want to work at in PCU (step down unit would be great. Make it known to the supervisors that you would be willing to float down to the...

  20. Filling baldder for Ultrasound...do you

    debbyed replied to tridil2000's topic in Emergency

    We stopped using foley cath for Ultrasound years ago. Pt's bladder is filled either by PO or IV fluids. Translady partsl views are frequently done as

  21. Ambulance Personnel and wait times

    debbyed replied to Kince's topic in Emergency

    i work with some excellent medics. it is not unusual for any number of hospitals in our area to be on yellow or red alert. about 40% of the patients arriving via medic can be sent to the waiting...

  22. Is a backboard for transport only, or immobilization while in the ER?

    debbyed replied to vampireslayer's topic in Emergency

    Removing a patient from a backboard is a physician call and should be documented as such. In the case of an uncooperative patient I would strongly suggest to the doc that the patient remain...

  23. Questioning a Docs decision...long

    debbyed replied to emsboss's topic in Emergency

    In addition with all the other responses also remember it is your licence on the line. You need to be a patient advocate and you need to protect yourself. If you ever feel a patient is not stable...

  24. Funny Sign In Slips

    debbyed replied to TraumaInTheSlot's topic in Emergency

    Honest - cross my heart etc,etc Last weekend a guy came in and said "I'm homeless, I have an assessment interview in the morning so I need a meal, a shower, someplace to sleep and make sure the TV...

  25. Here's a question for all of you ER nurses (sad and kind of long)

    debbyed replied to Lisky90's topic in Emergency

    As with the others you have my sympathies. Regardless of whether a patient is an M.E. case both the patient and the patients family need to be respected. If the family was not at the bedside during...