AmandaBrittainy

The American Government CANNOT come in any way close to accomplishing a health system comparable to Germany or Japan. It is too corrupt. Politicians make more money than these despised CEOs of Insurance companies, you can trust that they are also goi...

thank you, about 1 in 50 people actually get this concept (thats where I work-so people with advanced education). Im soooooooo sick of people thinking that health care is an entitlement like everything else in this country.

You might try Rapid Temps, Inc. I have worked for them for a long time and am quite satisfied, however, the agencies that cover New Mexico areas (for Per Diem or contract) are much smaller and quite a bit different as it is less populated than TX. Ma...

jeez, you are busting your rear end to make it - so what if you like to enjoy cable?, and I dont think I would have made it through college without the internet (Had alot of Web based classes). You deserve these things, you are working hard. Dont let...

I thought it was going to be very prestigious and honest and my fellow nurses would be noble and kind and just as hard working as I was. I thought I will would be following the direction of well educated and benevolent physicians. I thought that I wo...

Its just one of those days, feelin like a freight train first one to complain - leavin with a blood stain. its all about the he said she said - "BS" i think you better quit lettin it slip or youll be leavin with a fat lip. - Limp Bizkit For "one of ...

How about - I need to eat because Im a diabetic - did anyone tell these 300 pound 5 foot people where alot of insulin resistance stems from?

oh and the admissions rep that calls to tell you there is a toe injury outside - the patient was ever so thoughtful to make sure we knew they had cardiac history

my top 10 - 1. The person that got arrested for doing something illegal who now magically has chest pain or is suicidal and needs to come to the er. 2. The bum who spent all his SSDI on booze who now has no place to stay who is suicidal or has a new...

AHHH yes, I reserve a special place in my waiting room for these patients known as the penalty box - which consists of an extremely long wait until all other legitimate patients have been waited on hand and foot and everything in the ER is caught up ...

Saw some one named Spyder, and Hunter Butt (no kidding). Also work with Dr Aswad.

BeetleJuice (cause you know if you say a frequent fliers name more than once here they come), so we call em all Beetlejuice. All I can think of for now.

I have always been interested in working out in the field just to see what it is like, go for it, health allowing. Very different world from what we see at the recieving end of things.

I found this story very sad, sorry I don't have a link to it (pretty popular right now - should be easy to find). The family had tried to call 911 while the woman died in an ER lobby that had a history of underfunding and overcrowding. Why doesnt the...

Your post made me think and feel really bad about myself. I feel so pressured to get my job done and take care of my patients that I never volunteer to precept or help students in most instances even though I have alot to offer, I would love to help ...

Yes, I dont agree with them either, I know I work hard but I also know my acquired skills are not shared by the general population or inborn in everyone, either. So when the authors of that paper can do my job and call it a day's work - they are wlec...

My husband was a medic in Roswell - very high acuity patients, very busy ER considering the size of Roswell, he says. I also work with the Schumaker group doctors - many were sent there but would never go back - they thought it was too hectic (some o...

Yes, I thought I was the only person that caught onto this trend. I think it is a hobby - they have had 20 trillion work ups for thier abdominal pain - which is probably cancer at this point due to the 40,000 CTs they've had. Maybe they are on to som...

Here is a really really scary thing - I recently worked (past tense) in an ER whose director decided it would be a good idea to hand our bracelets equivalent to the function of a call bell to all waiting room patients. I did not stick around long eno...

It was not meant to come across as saying that and as for you and your categories, Ill group you in a category - its called lets go on a witch hunt because someone pointed out that the entire nursing profession does not walk on water - yeah I have...

Well good for you and your million years experience - some of the veteran nurses in my dept are so jaded and lazy-so dont pull the experience card on me, I know experience very well does not make the nurse - that is a personal and professional choic...

No its not a nurses realm - paramedics do all those things in the field under much more pressure and in substandard conditions - there is no reason they cant do it in ER and I work with paramedics every day and would not trade most of them for 99% o...

I dont think so - it is a different set of skills and skill level than juggling 7-8 med surg patients or 5 drip titrations in the ICU. You just have to see if it is for you - it cant be taken lightly like any type of nursing - you must be serious and...

Funny you should say, I am killing time right now before I have to go sit through an ACLS course. Not bad - I just HATE acting out situations - give me a break, am I 5?

Sounds like the ENT should have got his own crap and got up to the floor - that is probably what irked everyone off and they took it out on you because it was easier than telling the doc what he needed to hear. I have to deal with this as an ER nurse...