LilgirlRN

LilgirlRN ADN, RN

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  1. Does your supervisor give a crap?

    LilgirlRN replied to TraumaNurseRN's topic in Emergency

    Here, where I work they can be hell with coverage... also let me say that I too am sorry this happened to you and your family. I've been at work, puking my guts up, running to the bathroom every few...

  2. Nurses Who Are Drug Addicts

    LilgirlRN replied to jill48's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    I may have already replied to this post but I don't think so. Recently I was at work when someone told the nurse manager that my eyes looked funny so they had me do a urine drug screen and gave me the...

  3. ER Nursing, Is it considered critical care?

    LilgirlRN replied to NicNac's topic in Emergency

    Having worked in CCU and the ER, I consider ER critical care too however, I've worked with other nurses who were going back to school to get their CRNA and you have to have critical care experience...

  4. How to cope with a drug error - destroyed confidence

    LilgirlRN replied to cloverfield's topic in Emergency

    MOst nurses have made a medication error of some sort. Feel fortunate (I'm sure you do) that you didn't cause any permanent damage. Long ago when I was a new nurse and working in a cardiac unit I gave...

  5. new to triage

    LilgirlRN replied to lela186's topic in Emergency

    Go to the ENA website, they usually have a list of courses in your area that would be helpful to you. We use the 5 levels too although we use T sheets to chart on and they only offer 4 levels with...

  6. Need opinions RE: Fetal Demise in ER

    LilgirlRN replied to dansmom6's topic in Emergency

    I agree with hospitalstaph, just let the ER know you are there. Perhaps you could put some sort of pamphlet in the waiting room so that patients know to ask for you. Or if nothing else, the pamphlet...

  7. what makes you a good ER nurse?

    LilgirlRN replied to scrmblr's topic in Emergency

    What makes me a good ER nurse..... ADD!!!!!!!! I have a hard time focusing on one thing for too long, so I go and do what needs to be done at that moment and then off to the next one. Things are not...

  8. phone calls no outsider would believe

    LilgirlRN replied to JBudd's topic in Emergency

    I once had to write a note for one of our techs, it was to her BF to tell him that a yeast infection is NOT a sexually transmitted disease.... we get it all in the ER, calls ,

  9. Doing Floor assessment in ED before admission

    LilgirlRN replied to cactusj's topic in Emergency

    We used to have an admit unit too.... then we had a big meeting one day where everyone was invited to put their two cents in. I suggested that the admit unit go mobile. SO now they go allover the...

  10. ER Nurse----> New preceptor for new grads

    LilgirlRN replied to AnnieOaklyRN's topic in Emergency

    I was new graduate, took a job in CCU. I had been a tech in the same hospital. My charge nurse developed renal failure and had to quit. Within 6 months I was the charge nurse myself. It's a task I...

  11. Am I Meant To Be A Nurse?

    LilgirlRN replied to the_alchemist's topic in NCLEX Exam, Programs

    Only you have the right to say if you are a nurse or not. Regardless of license or not. For thousands of years there have been nurses, people who have naturally given gifts to help the ill. Let me say...

  12. ONLY 6 week orientation for New Grad?

    LilgirlRN replied to clairebearrn's topic in Emergency

    I think it all depends on the person. You've been a tech for two years while you were in nursing school, you have to have learned something by doing that. In our ER, no question is a dumb question, if...

  13. Photo essay in US News & World Report

    LilgirlRN replied to Altra's topic in Emergency

    At least they're giving triage some credit..... for a change. We're the redheaded step-children of the ER. All the other nurses hate me, cause I bring them patients. They all hate my job, they don't...

  14. do you chart vent settings?

    LilgirlRN replied to bigreddog1934's topic in Emergency

    I'd chart the size of the tube, the cm's it's taped at, the vent settings and O2 sat on these settings, also breath sounds

  15. Faxed Patient Report Form

    LilgirlRN replied to MoodyButt's topic in Emergency

    As others have said, we like, they don't like. We don't do it at the hospital where I work now but did do it a the past two places I worked. The last place, the charge nurse was the designated...

  16. Suturing - Do you do it?

    LilgirlRN replied to bluefabian's topic in Emergency

    Depends on what state your in as to if you can stitch up a patient. In Al you can't unless you have an advanced degree.... nurse practitioner. Or maybe if your some kinda whooptedo (no offense) nurse...

  17. wonder what the opinion is on the "new" ACLS guidelines

    LilgirlRN replied to MassED's topic in Emergency

    You know every few years something changes about ACLS. I've been taking it since 1987 too. Most of the changes have been to medications, the order in which we gave them etc. I too can see the...

  18. Disturbed Energy Field? Yes or No?

    LilgirlRN replied to VickyRN's topic in Holistic

    Ya know let people believe what they wanna believe. Everyone has a different opinion. If it works for them it works. Chinese medicine has been around for a long time, personally I don't see how a...

  19. Drugs, Law, Nursing Role

    LilgirlRN replied to southernbelle4lu's topic in Emergency

    Even though you are a nursing student, I know you've heard of HIPPA. Your information is supposed to be safe, so why would we call the cops and divulge the info? I work in triage and everyday ask...

  20. Why do you like Emergency Department Nursing?

    LilgirlRN replied to RN_in_SC's topic in Emergency

    I guess I am a chaos junky. I love the variety and we have more independence than most nursing units. We work with one group of doctors who we come to trust and they come to trust us. We even get a...

  21. patient belongings

    LilgirlRN replied to nursejennie76's topic in Emergency

    Usually with admission only, however... I do triage, if someone comes in with a hurt arm or hand and I have them remove their ring, I always describe it and state that the patient kept it. Waaay back...

  22. Strange things found on (or in) a pt.

    LilgirlRN replied to squeakykitty's topic in Emergency

    OK if we're gonna talk things found "inside" patients.... I was working intriage, little old man signs in. I get him into tthe office and ask why he's there, he says"I've got diarrhea", then syas"I...

  23. Math help please!

    LilgirlRN replied to I_LOVE_TRAUMA's topic in Emergency

    I'll have to admit that I am terrible at math too.... I cheat, we always have a drug book with the mcg/kg/min listed in it, so all I do is set the pump at the rate stated. Luckily, I am fulltime...

  24. DKA- how often do you see the same ones

    LilgirlRN replied to HyperRNRachel's topic in Emergency

    We see the same ones over and over again. A long time ago we had the same guy that came in all the time. Mid thirties but had been diabetic most of his life. He was qalso an IV drug abuser. The last...

  25. "Customer Service" --Rant!

    LilgirlRN replied to JustaGypsy's topic in Emergency

    I feel your