UtErRnEmt

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 I was to start. Imagine my surprise when the NM t...

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

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 the plug IN the outlet, close doesn't count). patie...

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 clinical, if you even look at someone strange then you are...

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 your supervisors allow the staff to be verbally abus...

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". meanwhile the same pt threw and broke a dynamap and...

even if the person threatens to come after you physically?

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 the certifications i've been told I would need. N...

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 GAWKER- stands and stares at the staff, arms folded...

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 swinging at me. so i pulled the tube and asked anoth...

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 problem when a short staffed dept is made even sho...

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 shift. learn to appreciate pizza and other foods you ca...

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 work somewhat sane. i didn't mean to offend anybody...

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 crisis

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 privacy. also the manager can and does check what is goi...

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 from the hospital will tell you anything to get you ...

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 rotate my leg (couldn't walk that well either). i ref...

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, enpc, btls, pepp (the last 2 obtained when i took my...

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 room with the pt. well ems put the pt on the er stre...

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 question. the charge nurse was doing whatever charge ...

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 didn't code her due to her injury (failed apnea t...

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 new tag with cen or rnc on it and was told that the...

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 i'm taking care of the charts and not the pts. one ...

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 single lumen port and no peripheral veins. normal h...

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 told me i was suppossed to be seen and not heard on t...