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Anyone heard anything about Samford University in Birmingham, Alabama? I know their program is fairly new but wondering if anyone out there has heard good/bad/in-different? Thanks, Ben

We have unit based educators but they more fill the role of policy making and meetings than actually holding classes and providing up to date information. I think it is a wonderful idea if educators are getting the new information and refresher cours...

715:banghead: is the highest I have ever come across. Many times you have to check the anion gap because the etoh will be through the roof due to the patient drinking rubbing alcohol:yeah:!

In the ED we have patients that undergo procedures in the ED and of course many that go to surgery. Many times the patients going to surgery do not see the physician until they arrive in pre-op. Surgery always complains that the ED didn't get the con...

Check out this site for some great laughs! I would love to wear some of these to work! Maybe when I decide to leave:rolleyes:. http://shop.cafepress.com/emergency-nurse

I love Brooks shoes. They are expensive but well worth it walking all shift and hold up very well.

One thing I do want to ask everyone. Do you have locum tenems doctors or full time? Are they board certified in ED med? Luckily we have 8 board cert. ed docs and recently added 1 board cert. locum due to a doc leaving until they get someone else hire...

I work in a not-for-profit 32 bed Level II ED. 8 of those are express beds but we have up to 8 other patients in the hall. We start at 4:1 but sometimes it goes 5:1 very rarely is it 6:1. In express 8:1-2 varies during the day. We see about 58,000 a ...

I work in a non-profit community hospital seeing 58,000 ED patients a year. This year the hospital has been hit hard by the "charitable care" given to the community. The hospital has for years let the community get away with coming in and not paying ...

This recently happened to one of our patients on a night I was in charge. Except the patient was intoxicated when brought in and was about an hour away from his home. We exhausted every relative and friend he was willing to give numbers for. We do ha...

Was wondering if anyone else had an Emergency differential and what it is? We saw 57000 last year in a 32 bed ed. We have just found out we got a raise but administration decide to take away .50 of our diff down to 1.00. How can they justify this whe...

Medical Center in Dothan finally went up to 18.50 with still 8%/16% diff. ACLS is .50, Certification in area 1.50, Charge 1.50. Only unit diff in hospital is ED took .50 away down to 1.00.

Just remember Cerebyx can be given 150/min but slower for women b/c it will cause outrageous vaginal itching. And also on anyone if going to fast can cause vomiting;).

If There Is Any One On 10 Hour Shift In Their Ed Please Reply And Let Me Know What Your Rotation And Shift Times Are. We Are Looking At These Shifts But It Has Been A Struggle Trying To Get The Shift Times And Coverages To Work. Thanks

We Are Looking At 10 Hour Shift In Our Ed. Is There Anyone On This Schedule? Please Reply With Your Shift Times. Thanks

I Love another one bites the dust!

In our ED only RN's with atleast a year experience in our ED can triage out front. But EMS that comes in usually whoever has the room triages the pt.

In the southeast region the base for new grads is a dysmal 16.50 and hour and hasnt budged in 3 years. This is a ridiculous wage considering that there is a definite shortage in our area now. We have had many nurses walkout of our hospital. Its tough...

We get $1.50/h for charging and only selected nurses get to charge. We normally dont take pt's but at times on nights we have to take pt's.

1. What protocols do you use. i.e. Abd pain gets a line, labs, etc, We have a Chest pain with meds listed, Fever with meds, Pneumonia with beeper alerts to charge nurse if infiltrate shown on CXR, Extremity(Ortho), SOB almost complete, and a few...

1. What protocols do you use. i.e. Abd pain gets a line, labs, etc, We have a Chest pain with meds listed, Fever with meds, Pneumonia with beeper alerts to charge nurse if infiltrate shown on CXR, Extremity(Ortho), SOB almost complete, and a few...

1. What protocols do you use. i.e. Abd pain gets a line, labs, etc, 2. How invasive are your pain protocols. i.e. Can you give an isolated extremitiy injury i.e. obvious fx get narcotics in triage. (This is just a hypothetical example) 3. Does it ma...

Unfortunately making wireless monitors would be great except we had to quit buying remotes and phones (we now have the old huge phones in the rooms that have buttons but used to have the round dials) because the pts walk off with them and there is a ...

We are very autonomous in our ED. As soon as a pt is brought to a room we do draw a rainbow, send urine, get an ekg, start our bedside cardiacs, etc etc. We cant afford to wait til the doc sees the pt due to the fact that we are so busy. But we also ...

We fax our reports up to the floor and it works well for us. We call to confirm that the report was recieved and then the pt goes to the floor. Jacho stated to us that report was a courtesy. We fax then the pt goes up. We only go to the floor with pt...