Kinky Slinky RN

Kinky Slinky RN specializes in ER/Trauma.

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1. 2 hour reassessments in Triage

   Kinky Slinky RN replied to Opinions matter's topic in Emergency

   We don't leave certain people in the waiting room... We have triage protocols that require people to automatically be walked back to the ER based on their complaints.. We would never leave a chest painer out in the waiting room cause any one of them ...

2. Phone advice? Do you give it?

   Kinky Slinky RN replied to TooterIA's topic in Emergency

   OF COURSE I GIVE ADVICE OVER THE PHONE!!!!!!!! If someone calls looking for advice.... I give it!! Freely!!! I say, "We can't give any advice out over the phone but if you're concerned enough to call, then you better get it checked out." :wink2:

3. 2 hour reassessments in Triage

   Kinky Slinky RN replied to Opinions matter's topic in Emergency

   Wow... We also use the 5 level ESI... But we're lucky if the waiting room patients are reassessed in 12-24 hours... I think it really depends on how busy the hospital ER is... Because for my hospital, it is IMPOSSIBLE to reassess every patient in th...

4. Patients Treat Nurses Like Garbage!

   Kinky Slinky RN replied to lisa41rn's topic in General Nursing

   I think this is one reason I could never work at a private facility where most patients have insurance and expect to be treated like royalty. I work where most patients are homeless and most are thankful for what treatment you can give them. There ...

5. Unsafe ER - any suggestions?

   Kinky Slinky RN replied to Anagray's topic in Emergency

   Yeah... I work at a county level 1 trauma ER and when WE go on divert.. so do all the other hospitals... divert doesn't mean anything in my city unless your a private hospital that has the ability to dump patients that cant pay onto the county hospit...

6. Lots of reactions to the flu vax this year

   Kinky Slinky RN replied to TazziRN's topic in General Nursing

   When I got my flu vaccine in October, I had a reaction as well. I got a fever, had body aches, fatigue. I got the flu shot at the beginning of shift and had to work a full 12 hours feeling like that... I had never had a reaction like that to a flu ...

7. When do you become legally responsible for a patient?

   Kinky Slinky RN replied to Kinky Slinky RN's topic in Emergency

   Yeah, unfortunately those were all of my patients at the same time... Thankfully, most of them were hemodynamically stable so I was able to care for the sick ones first.. I was stuck with the conscious sedation and my 80 yr old ETOH withdrawal (+ 10...

8. When do you become legally responsible for a patient?

   Kinky Slinky RN posted a topic in Emergency

   Sorry if this is a repeat thread, I tried searching but couldn't find anything.. I was at work the other day and was being slammed with some sick pts... I had a conscious sedation on a 13 yr old femur fx for traction/fx reduction... 13 yr old tib/f...

9. ER Nurses Week-What's everyone doing?

   Kinky Slinky RN replied to ERnewbieRN's topic in Emergency

   Our facility has done something every day but I'm not sure what it was every day because I have only been two days. I know on Monday they (being unit mgr and asst unit mgrs) transported all of our admitted patients to the floors (which we have no tr...

10. What would you do? -long-

    Kinky Slinky RN replied to EmilyUSFRN's topic in General Nursing

    I was told that the reason PT/PTT tubes have to be filled completely is due to the fact that theres an anticoagulant in the tube so if it isn't filled then the values could be off? But I would definitely ask for a central line or PICC...

11. Status asthmaticus

    Kinky Slinky RN replied to tahnz0's topic in General Nursing

    I say definitely A as well

12. med error reporting

    Kinky Slinky RN replied to allisonj_rn's topic in General Nursing

    When I was in nursing school, there was also a new nurse on the floor I had clinicals on that had given something like 10 units of REGULAR insulin SQ when the order called for 10 units of 70/30 SQ. It was reported to the charge RN who said, and I quo...

13. Extremely tempted by large sign on bonus

    Kinky Slinky RN replied to FireStarterRN's topic in General Nursing

    Well... I would count Parkland for a reason

14. Extremely tempted by large sign on bonus

    Kinky Slinky RN replied to FireStarterRN's topic in General Nursing

    Gosh, I work at a large Dallas hospital... wonder if it's the same place? =)

15. 8:1 ratio in the ED?

    Kinky Slinky RN replied to TamrRN07's topic in Emergency

    In my ER, having 8 patients is a great shift!! It seems dangerous and can be but it works. Just on the medicine side of the ER alone we can have 2 attending MDs, 2 ER residents (one 2nd yr, one 3rd yr), 1 internal med MD, and 2 interns, and (with g...