emtb2rn BSN, RN, EMT-B

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    I start in the ER next week!

    And check this out, when you go to see your patient you won't have to ask them to first secure the dog. And there'll be adequate lighting in the room. And no stairs.
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    ED to Informatics ... nervous!

    Luna, go for the trauma
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    Where do I belong?

    Are you done with
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    Triage question

    If the pt
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    Great moments in bad judgement

    Reaching under commercial lawn-mower to remove stick. Mower running. Started with 10, ended with
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    CEN

    Check out mark boswell's material on
  7. I'm feeling the bern with the last bunch of
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    What happened to the "Emergency" in "Emergency Room?"

    If the only patients who came to the er were full-on esi 1 & 2's, we'd be almost out of
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    A big thumbs up and a big thumbs down

    Pound for pound, he's the largest governor we've ever
  10. Shepard's prayer before every shift. (Alan Shepard that
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    Self defense and protection in a hospital.

    Interesting. I grew up in the inner city where shootings were not uncommon but ahhhh, the knife fights. Don't know if you've ever seen or been in one but they are incredibly vicious. I saw quite a few...
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    Med error question

    Errors happen. No harm to pt so don't beat yourself
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    medical social nurse

    What in the wide world of sports is a "medical social
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    Favorite sayings

    In daily use are: Not my circus, not my monkeys. Could be worse, could be raining. Need housekeeping in room xx with pliers and a
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    best book to study

    After 7 years there's no one book that can help you. A refresher class is what's needed if you want to pass the boards. And until you pass the boards, you will not be a
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    "School Nurse" Pilot

    Hi
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    Anyone ever have to address the "choking game"?

    We see choking game participants in the ed every now & then. Pronounced every time in my experience. So incredibly sad for the
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    Is it tacky/disrespectful to do this?

    That was a reality that somehow doesn't fit your reality. Figure it out yourself during the next code on your
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    Is it tacky/disrespectful to do this?

    The following took about 1 minute to find on the internet, so I did your homework for you: Cost of Hiring New Nurses FEATURES Cost of Hiring New Nurses In this tight economy, does it pay for hospitals...
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    Job Embeddedness

    This is what you get from an anonymous board: Started this thread to find out how many of you feel that you have accomplished job embeddedness. In what type of setting do you work? Sometimes...
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    CEN exam

    Most folks (myself included) seemed to get 2 years of ed experience before taking the cen. There are exceptions of course. Everybody is different. Do you have any trauma experience? If no, then tncc...
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    Why are some people on here so rude?

    Not rude,
  23. Yeah, this. Still, i'll stay with my position that acute care for him is not a good choice for his pts, his co-workers and
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    Serious Problems with SATA Qs

    I loved sata's. Each component is yes or
  25. You hand off your pts to the "least busy rn" you can find & take your break when it lights up? Running from a code? You'd last maybe 1 shift in the ed. And what's with the job being therapeutic...