Howling at the Moon Warm and Fuzzy No More: It's Time For Nurses To Use their clout by Mark Jorgensen RN of Omaha, Neb. it has been refreshing for a change to read some readers opinions that were not...
best answer..................check with your state board.....to see if you can get licensure.....before even finishing school......if you can they have no reason to keep you out......if they try get a...
"i am not a nun. i am not mother theresa. i am not superwoman." no you are not: you are: "kristina queen of the kitchen!!!!!!" you didn't think i would let you live that one down did you? me...
we see about 40,000 a year. we are responsible for 47% of all admissions. we run into all the same crap, and excuses also. it does where on us. the thing i tell the floor is this......when your...
what was the patients mental status like? how far out were the abg's? you said the sugar was 303? i guess it seems a little bizzare for them to dx dka with a blood sugar of 303? i would assume...
I have been through it, and heard it all. I have lost all but one of my (work) family, in the last 9 months. It's not the same anymore......and they do tell me how much better things are where they...
first you did nothing wrong............ second............clearly the attending/admitting doc was a moron. unless.........this person had a hx of chf/pulmonary edema, a-fib/flutter or recent cabg....
I work in an ER with almost 100 staff members. Our census has increased each yeah by 1,000-2,000 patients, until last year. In 2000 our ER census increased by almost 10,000 patients. Anyways, there...
Well students are asigned to nurses......and they are supposed to help them, and observe them do procedures. I for one don't mind........I try to teach students that come to the ER, everything I can...
yes debbi it would be h-works out of washington dc. i have been on the commitee since it started in march, and head one of the task forces. i hope it all works out as well as they say it will. :)...
i wish i could help you on this one? we really haven't seen much of it at all? i have never really researched it either. to tell you the truth? i'm not even totaly sure what it is? guess now i...
the first three years i was in the er, we had an on call list. everybody took one day a month. then we increased staffing on nights a little bit, and they hacked the on call list for budget reasons....
feisty? i didn't in any way mean to offend anyone. i just spoke the way i feel......and being we are all grown up here, and in the same field.....i figured i could phrase it the way i first thought...
robin, sorry for the misunderstanding............diaphoretic means sweating, wet, usually accompanied by coolness if not associtated with a fever. i was just trying to get a better picture of the...
well.........thing is "face was bright red, lips were tingling" = plenty of blood flow and possibly hyperventilation. (do not get offended either, it's not meant to be offensive). then say the lips...