UtErRnEmt

UtErRnEmt

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  1. Fastaff

    UtErRnEmt replied to raindrop's topic in Travel

    I'll tell you my experience with Fastaff. I was supposed to have gone to work for them outside of D.C. I finished my notice where I was working and called the hospital I was going to to verify when...

  2. A Mother Seeking Healthcare Career Advice for High School Junior

    UtErRnEmt replied to Psata's topic in Nursing Career

    PT, OT, or medical billing. no night or on call

  3. What are your pet peeves?

    UtErRnEmt replied to forgop's topic in Emergency

    the wrong size bp cuff, if you have to manually keep the Velcro from ripping away, use the next size up. going to get a portable monitor or dynamap and it wont even turn on (you actually have to put...

  4. if you could do it over again....

    UtErRnEmt replied to abiggie's topic in General Nursing

    RUN, DO NOT WALK away from nursing! If you are looking for a new career, investigate a business degree as the bean counters are the only ones with security in healthcare anymore. If you are...

  5. getting walked on

    UtErRnEmt posted a topic in Emergency

    after having a pt curse me out and than losing my temper, which i'll probably get pulled into the office over, i was wondering how management at other hospitals react in this type of situation. do...

  6. Nurses, have you been been spit on, pushed, scratched and verbally or assaulted?

    UtErRnEmt replied to Brian's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    A friend of mine was triaging a pt when out of nowhere the pt hauled off and slapped my buddy in the face. She was told by administration that she couldn't press charges because "it would look bad"....

  7. getting walked on

    UtErRnEmt replied to UtErRnEmt's topic in Emergency

    even if the person threatens to come after you

  8. flight positions

    UtErRnEmt posted a topic in Flight, Surface Transport

    I'm curious. Where do you search for flight nurse positions? There are 3 services in my area but none are hiring for RN's at this time. Is there a web site with positions advertised? I have almost all...

  9. er visitors...a funny

    UtErRnEmt posted a topic in Emergency

    thought these were funny and true. add on if desired.... Alas, sometimes in the ER the family is harder to deal with than the patient. Here are some family member we all have seen in our ER: DOORWAY...

  10. Most silly reason for being called in the office?

    UtErRnEmt replied to nursebrandie28's topic in Emergency

    i had a manipulative pt come with a c/o vomiting blood so of course the er doc ordered an ng tube. i lubed the tube with lido jelly. well the pt refused to cooperate and wouldnt swallow and started...

  11. treatment of "vip's"

    UtErRnEmt posted a topic in Emergency

    how do other hospitals treat board members and their friends/family when they come into the er as a pt? i don't have a problem doing one on one care with mi, cva or other critical pts but i do have a...

  12. Your One Best Piece Of Advice Please.

    UtErRnEmt replied to whitman's topic in Emergency

    don't tick off the ems crews. they can make your life he** and bring every pt they pick up to your er. practice stretching out your bladder for the time where you don't get to pee for the entire...

  13. er visitors...a funny

    UtErRnEmt replied to UtErRnEmt's topic in Emergency

    nursingis4me i hope you dont plan on working in an er. without some type of sense of humor you'll be burned out within a year. as another poster said we're just blowing off steam so we can return to...

  14. treatment of "vip's"

    UtErRnEmt replied to UtErRnEmt's topic in Emergency

    thanks everyone . maybe one day the vip's will open hospital usa that they teach us about in nursing school where there is extra staff in the wings to get us thru a brown nosing

  15. two questions

    UtErRnEmt posted a topic in General Nursing

    i don't know enough about legal nursing but maybe someone can advise. the manager of my department can read any email we send or recieve via hospital email. i would think this is an invasion of...

  16. Attention all ER Travelers!!

    UtErRnEmt replied to RNcDreams's topic in Emergency

    i tried travel nursing 2 years ago. i compared it to being in dante's seventh level of hell if that tells you anything. however if you decide to do it just remember the agency recruiter and the rep...

  17. Are you afraid to go to the ER?

    UtErRnEmt replied to scrmblr's topic in Emergency

    i've been to the er that i work at twice. once was after i woke up with my face and eyes all swollen. the second time was after i fell off a horse and after i got back on it i couldn't internally...

  18. Acls

    UtErRnEmt replied to StillBelieveRN's topic in Emergency

    at the er i worked at it was required to have bls, acls, pals, tncc. before i got burned out with trauma and left they had started recommending emt training for the rn's as well. i also had my cen,...

  19. EMS abandonment?

    UtErRnEmt posted a topic in Emergency

    last week an outlying county ems crew brought in an elderly male with the c/c of chest pain. the charge nurse sent them to a room but all the staff nurses were in other rooms and didn't go into the...

  20. EMS abandonment?

    UtErRnEmt replied to UtErRnEmt's topic in Emergency

    thanks for the feedback. the assigned nurse was with an infant in resp distress being transferred to a peds hospital. i was triaging another chest pain pt who had come in just prior to the one in...

  21. What was the WORST thing a patient has been brought to ER for?

    UtErRnEmt replied to SteveNNP's topic in Emergency

    3 yr female shot in the head by mom's friend. mom also shot and doa at scene. i took care of child for 3 hrs in the er waiting for dad to arrive. she went into pea while dad was being brought back. we...

  22. Cen

    UtErRnEmt replied to EmerNurse's topic in Emergency

    i took my cen in '05 and personally i thought the practice tests were harder than the real thing (other than the stress factor). when i took it i was working in a teaching hospital. i tried to get a...

  23. help...first assignment

    UtErRnEmt posted a topic in Travel

    hi all. i'm on my first assignment and don't know if i'm gonna make it 12 more weeks. the er is totally disorganized. i fill everything out 2 or 3 times. i ask a question and am ignored. i feel like...

  24. what would you do

    UtErRnEmt posted a topic in Emergency

    just curious what the rest of you would do with this situation. i had a ca pt on chemo come in. was found to have a severe uti (possible urosepsis per the doc) as well as a low h&h. the pt has a...

  25. what would you do

    UtErRnEmt replied to UtErRnEmt's topic in Emergency

    thanks everyone for your input. as for jojo's comment i had butted heads with one of the charge nurses the day before because i got tired of her dumping on me so that was probably a factor (nobody...