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I have been suffering from migraines and migraine related problems for almost two years (however they think that I've been getting them since I was 4 or 5 years old) I was diagnosed with chronic and serve migraines because normally there isn't a day ...

I wasn't looking for medical advice, just to see if anyone had it done and what their experience was. My choice is going to come down to what the Doctor and I decide, I was just wondering about whether anyone had tried that alternitive because I know...

EmerNurse-- That is exactly what I'm talking about, if your smiling at me while your in the room, then I'm much more likely to be cooperative. I know that when you walk out of the room your probably talking about me, thats life. I try to be an easy p...

TrudyRN I think you totally have the right idea... I understand that working in an ER is hard work, and not like most others, but in nursing nothing is "easy" and nothing isn't just a difficult as any other field. Yes, ED nurses have to deal with the...

Totally agree with that one... I dislocated my knee cap... my knee cap was just put back in place by the Othro doc an they tell me to keep still while they bend my knee around for x-rays.. right...

As for rules of the ED, if you come in feeling like you are going to vomit at one in the morning, don't sit in the waiting room and make out with your wife, it's gross

Once again.. this started out having absolutely nothing to do with me... SO I WILL RESTATE AGAIN 90% of people in here have said that they are sick of nasty grumpy patients, and ALL I SAID was if you would have a little compassion and maybe a smile o...

Apparently no one sees that my point has been made because things that had NOTHING to do with my point keep coming up, so yeah thats for the sarcasm

Ok I have worked in and ED and I've work in other parts of the hospital, and maybe it's just my personality but I can keep a smile on my face all day long no matter what comes my way. I never said that ED nurses were not good at what they do or any o...

Do you think I haven't done all of these things, the fact is in the middle of the night at this hospital (that is magnet status by the way) the procedure is that you are admitted through the ED. Thats out of my control, and if I did not feel that I w...

Okay first of all being sent to the ER to be admitted to a floor is the way that they tend to do it, I have seen it done that way many times during the times I've spent in the ED an worked in a hospital. Second I'm not talking about being asked abou...

Alright this is just a quick question for the ER nurses here. Last night I had a really busy shift on OB, which is where I normally work. At the hospital I work at patients can only come in through the ED which I guess is pretty common (and much more...

I find that a lot of ED nurses are not very happy to be there, and to be honest if there weren't people coming in there every day there wouldn't be a need for ED nurses. My problem is the nurses who can't so much as give you a smile. Anyone that goes...

I also forgot to add that I work nights, so yes during the day we have patients go straight to the floor (well at least for now, out hospital is talking about not letting anyone past the second floor (Main Floor) unless they are accounted for on one ...

I figured that would be the answer, but I was just wondering if there were any strange things in nursing school that made you scared to handle it or whatever. The thing that always gets me though is when the nurse in the ED says well her water broke,...

I guess I should have been a little more specific, a downfall of mine. I'm talking about the Mom who has had a normal pregnancy, no problems thus far, has called her OB and told them she is on the way, she gets into the ED and her water happens to...

Sometimes md's order this in my hospital, we have the beds that weigh the patients and they really want the patient to be weighed on an actual scale.

I don't think anyone was criticizing the crocs with no holes in them, it's the ones that do have holes... the hospital that I work has said that, no one even people who are not around bodily fluid or sharps (such as secretarys who wear scrub) are not...

I think this thread is great, I was laughing so hard I was crying... I don't think any of the people posting here meant any harm, it's just a place to laugh about the day to day stuff, that probably would drive you nuts if you couldn't get it out in ...

We have a small gym in my hospital, but there are not many people who use it. I think part of that is the placement though, they have the gym in the basement, and the basement of my facility is a little creepy, there isn't much down there besides cen...

Why would you make a comment like that? I am a woman, and I can say no if I cannot or do not wish to work on the days that someone needs off. Yes, as women we are more supportive and emotionally attached to our jobs and co-workers, but I hardly think...

I wat told by a doctor at the hospital I work at that it is discouraged after three or four because of scar tissue...

Well at least it sounds like at your hospital there is actually an assignment that goes to a nurse who comes from another floor, I used to be a secretary on an OB floor and the nurses would get so frustrated when it was crazy because an extra nurse w...

I'm not trying to defend the student nurses, I'm just giving my opinion about young student nurses and why they act the way that they do. I do not agree with the student nurses who feel they are being treated badly when in fact the preceptor is just ...

i am young (20 years old) and i am a newbie, and i have to say that i totally agree with you! some of the stories i have read on here have sounded like the preceptor was totally horrible, but is that the student nurse exaggerating or telling somethin...