Emergency RN

Emergency RN

ED, CTSurg, IVTeam, Oncology

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  1. Are nurses behind in their knowledge?

    Emergency RN replied to guest64485's topic in General Nursing

    LOL, do we also not remind patients to have their coags drawn if they're on COUMADIN? But seriously, I think a lot of people in the thread are taking this too personally, that it's an affront on...

  2. anticlotting medications

    Emergency RN replied to jmaverick101's topic in Patient Medications

    The best way that I had this describe to me was using the "bricks and mortar" analogy, where the Fibrin is the mortar, and the platelets are the bricks. HEPARIN, LOVENOX, and COUMADIN all affect the...

  3. texting at work

    Emergency RN replied to questionsforall's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    All I'm waiting for, is for a plaintiff's attorney to subpoena a nurse's personal phone records to show that the nurse was inattentive to the dying patient as there are a stream of text messages from...

  4. Tylenol Suppository

    Emergency RN replied to sh1bby69's topic in Patient Medications

    LOL, What even "goofier" is that it even works with NITROGLYCERIN, too... Seriously, TYLENOL is absorbed into the very vascular rectal tissue transdermally to begin with, though the dermis there is...

  5. EMR in the ED

    Emergency RN replied to ERnursie172's topic in Emergency

    When it's working, it's great. When it's not, it's horrible. We use HMED and it has a tremendous learning curve, and the problems that crop up are eye opening. If you're going to be the one to...

  6. Do people really need a bloody mobile at work?

    Emergency RN replied to milenko's topic in General Nursing

    The issue here is not the phone per se, but whether the employee is distracted from her duties. She could have been standing there just as well reading a comic book, playing with a Nintendo DS, or...

  7. ER nurses! Do you have this policy in your hospital?

    Emergency RN replied to Tonjia's topic in General Nursing

    Like Janhetherington alluded to; to withhold an analgesic based upon the outside chance that someone may drive, is technically withholding care. The same can be asked if you give someone a BENADRYL...

  8. Your dad,uncle,cousin,etc. is a what?

    Emergency RN replied to RNman09's topic in Men in Nursing

    My first duty is to my kids; to allow them to be able to go through life without being laughed at, or to get into a fist fight trying to defend their dad's manly honor. I tell them to say I'm a medic...

  9. job offer with no written pay documentation

    Emergency RN replied to Aviationurse's topic in General Nursing

    "2. the staff are all male and good looking football players who are doing nurse recruitment and not nurses" If I go to a job interview like that, I'll start talking football. Turn down the job....

  10. Former Patient Asked Me For Money

    Emergency RN replied to 7student7's topic in General Nursing

    Never get personal with a pt, and never take the job, ...off the job. The worst part of it you've already alluded to; you're going to have continued professional contact with him and you've already...

  11. Am I missing something here?

    Emergency RN replied to Guest219794's topic in Emergency

    Before the advent of 12 lead systems (with enough wires to wrap a Christmas Tree, LOL...) there were only four wires, the three limb leads and ONE movable V lead. The three bipolar (or negative to...

  12. Hylenex-Have you used it

    Emergency RN replied to RN0520's topic in Emergency

    hylenex is the other name for hyaluronidase, an enzyme that hydrolyzes hyaluronic acid (a ground substance in the connective tissue surrounding cells). hyaluronic acid, a polysaccharide, by its high...

  13. Nursing school with a GED.

    Emergency RN replied to desireef's topic in General Nursing

    I think what you're really asking is, what are the chances that a high school drop out would survive the rigors and strenuous academic requirements of nursing school; is it worth it to even try? Am I...

  14. Where have all the GOOD VEINS gone?

    Emergency RN replied to PCUSheryl's topic in General Nursing

    You also must realize that with everything, there is a point of diminishing return. When someone has really horrible veins, their clinical usefulness or productivity may be questionable, such that...

  15. Nursing as Tax Exempt Profession

    Emergency RN posted a topic in General Nursing

    Because of the huge nursing shortage, should nursing be made a federally tax free profession, as a way of encouraging more people to join it's thinning ranks? Yes or no? Thanks for all responses....

  16. Blue Tooth Stethscopes

    Emergency RN posted a topic in General Nursing

    I for one, would welcome their arrival. Looking forward to not having to lug that snake around my neck finally. Various places have research going on, any news from anyone on working models? Prices?...

  17. Wearing scrubs home??

    Emergency RN replied to Rn2bKatie's topic in General Nursing

    The problem here is similar to keeping a fresh post op patient in a different room from someone with an infected wound. You can't say for sure that the latter will infect the former, but you know...

  18. Wearing scrubs home??

    Emergency RN replied to Rn2bKatie's topic in General Nursing

    What are the purpose of scrubs? They were designed as an infection control method to protect and limit iatrogenic infections from being introduced by caregivers (ie nurses and doctors). Hospitals...

  19. Please help me-I have no idea what to do

    Emergency RN replied to mdrkan's topic in General Nursing

    I think you better get your responsibility clearly defined and in writing. Your employer is trying to weasel two nurses while only paying for one, and leaving you out on a very nebulous legal limb....

  20. Wearing scrubs home??

    Emergency RN replied to Rn2bKatie's topic in General Nursing

    oops sorry, double

  21. Wearing scrubs home??

    Emergency RN replied to Rn2bKatie's topic in General Nursing

    Take your lunch and sit out on the grass in the wonderful sun filled garden; then go back inside to your immunocompromised burn patient and wipe your clostridia laden behind on your hand as you dig...

  22. reinstated license after suspension

    Emergency RN replied to bclily's topic in General Nursing

    Your plight is not that unusual. If you ever look up the reasons for state nursing licensure suspensions, the primary cause is for diversion of narcotics. The real interesting thing about it is that...

  23. Guys what made you chooose nursing

    Emergency RN replied to 2bnurseguy_2005's topic in Men in Nursing

    No offense, but I would never settle for what the LPN's have to put up with. By law, they're not the same as RN's; in New York, they're not allowed to give IV medications without an RN's supervision....

  24. Wearing scrubs home??

    Emergency RN replied to Rn2bKatie's topic in General Nursing

    This is where a part of the problem had been, that hospitals want to do things on the cheap, thus allowing staff to go home an launder their own scrubs in violation of health care policy. At the...

  25. "CENTI"meter vs "SONO"meter

    Emergency RN replied to itiswhatitis's topic in General Nursing

    I don't know about CENTI meter versus SONO meter, but how about SANTE meter, or SANTA meter? And a Ho ho ho to you too :) Ralph Still mispelling EEE KAY GEE with a CEE,