Kinky Slinky RN

Kinky Slinky RN

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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...

  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,...

  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...

  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...

  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...

  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...

  7. 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...

  8. 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...

  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...

  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...

  11. Status asthmaticus

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

    I say definitely A as

  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...

  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

  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...

  16. Giving pain meds thru a colostomy?

    Kinky Slinky RN replied to Blackcat99's topic in Wound, Ostomy, Continence

    Give morphine SQ all the time. I was surprised too when I got my first order for SQ, I double checked with

  17. What's your average nurse to patient ratio?

    Kinky Slinky RN replied to loricatus's topic in Emergency

    1:4 ratio is almost unheard of in my ER. Tonight I had up to 10 patients alone and it was fairly slow... About 4 of the 10 of my patients all at once had ankle fractures. One went straight to OR....

  18. Waiting for bed- start floor orders sooner or later?

    Kinky Slinky RN replied to RNcDreams's topic in Emergency

    we do not start floor orders until 4 hours after the orders were written. the only time we start orders early is if we are on divert (meaning we literally have no beds in the hospital), then we start...

  19. Nuva Ring questions

    Kinky Slinky RN replied to texasnursingstudent's topic in Ob/Gyn

    I was on depo provera (worst BC EVER) and then i got on the nuva ring... i was on the ring for about 6 months... i had migraines as a kid but then they went away when puberty hit.. when i got on the...

  20. Guess this chief complaint

    Kinky Slinky RN replied to ernurse61's topic in Emergency

    This is SO funny.. I am a new RN in a level 1 trauma center in Dallas, and during unit orientation our RN educator decided it was very important that we start learning the Parkland language... there...

  21. Posters that are not nurses

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

    I am a new RN, and it irritates me when I see/hear other students do that too... I know I don't know anything about anything when it comes to nursing... I am MORE than fully aware of that... I get so...

  22. North Lake/El Centro - Fall '06!

    Kinky Slinky RN replied to Fun2's topic in General Students

    Hi! I'm in 4th semester now but I had Johnston for first semester. I had her for everything... She's alright... She is VERY VERY particular about sterile procedures... In fact, she made us tape...

  23. Questions from a Struggling ER New Grad

    Kinky Slinky RN replied to NurseLene's topic in Emergency

    Hey!! I will be graduating in December, and I am TERRIFIED!!! I have signed on to THE busiest Level 1 Trauma Center here in Dallas.. The ER has about 145,000 visits per year... Our orientation is 16...

  24. Pediatric oncology nurses!

    Kinky Slinky RN posted a topic in Pediatric

    Hi!! I will be an RN in December (hopefully =), and although I have already signed on to a busy busy ER here, I am interested in pediatric oncology. I have been told that it's an extremely...

  25. When patients lie about rides.....

    Kinky Slinky RN replied to TazziRN's topic in Emergency

    Oh, all the wonderful experience I will receive by signing on to a busy, busy ER here... Can't wait