EmerNurse BSN, RN

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  1. EmerNurse

    Nursing Retention help.....

    EmerNurse replied to laurengaud's topic in General Nursing

    You said everything I wanted to say! Once you get new staff, you must orient them properly. I am on orientee number three (just started with her last night) and I fight, each time, to make sure they...
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    Triage sucks!!! Any tips??

    EmerNurse replied to BrnEyedGirl's topic in Emergency

    I'd be thinking about whacking them upside the head with the 9-iron. Sorry - tired. Hate Triage - ick. Give me zone 1 any night of the
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    8 pg paper question

    EmerNurse replied to Carla25's topic in Nursing Student Assistance

    Just run down the titles of posts in the news forum. There should be plenty of ideas so you can see what might interest you. Good
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    AA hair care racist?

    EmerNurse replied to vickynurse's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Patient hair has always been a pet peeve of mine, when I worked on the floor. When someone is lying in bed, their hair tends to get matted and knotted, especially at the back where it is on the...
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    ethical dilemma

    EmerNurse replied to starbin's topic in General Nursing

    Good grief!!! This poor man - if I wanted to eat or pee in a toilet, I'd be insanely upset to have someone say no. This doc needs to get the swallow eval done - WHAT is his problem? Is there family...
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    Sign-on Bonus contract terms

    EmerNurse replied to Keshet's topic in General Nursing

    My hospital doesn't do sign-on bonuses. But if you accept tuition reimbursement, you owe them time, or you pay it back. Generally, I don't accept anything from my job that's based on my staying...
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    "Customer service" and nursing

    EmerNurse replied to LilPeanut's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    You took the words RIGHT out of my mouth! How many times do we sit in staff meetings, after a shift where we STILL havn't gone and peed (cause we have to go to the meeting now), and all we get is a...
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    how to manage the waiting room?

    EmerNurse replied to gonzo1's topic in Emergency

    This is a problem in our triage too. We're supposed to, at the least, re-vitalize every 2 hours, but when they just keep coming, I have to keep triaging. We have a hard enough time being properly...
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    Why do nurses eat their young?

    EmerNurse replied to cinthern's topic in Ob/Gyn

    I remember when I was a newbie in the ER - there were two nurses - one on nights, the other on days - that were just miserable to me. I kinda backed off and stay out of their way (and still do)...
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    A day in the life of an ER nurse...

    EmerNurse replied to PACU queen's topic in Emergency

    I'll agree with the humor thing - have a very good (if twisted) sense of humor! Typical day? Sure come in at 1900, zone's full, mostly patients waiting on beds except one room with a new patient...
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    room assignments/responsibilities

    EmerNurse replied to ERERER's topic in Emergency

    Ours is similar with each nurse assigned a "zone" - with zone 1 being the "hot zone" with crash beds, and zone 2 taking overflow from that, and it goes through zones to the very least acute at the...
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    crowded ER, solution?

    EmerNurse replied to phiposurde's topic in Emergency

    I'll join the commisseration party. Our hospital is very small and it's not unusual to be holding patients in the ER waiting on a bed or tele pack. We fill up the hall beds (which officially we don't...
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    Disfunctional RN's

    EmerNurse replied to Rnandsoccermom's topic in General Nursing

    The other side of that is when the person IS new, and the facility scrimps on their orientation, saying "they'll be fine, just help 'em out". Recipe for failure if you ask me! Today's nursing has...
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    Blue collar treatment with white collar expectations

    EmerNurse replied to wordstew's topic in General Nursing

    New nurses on my unit are thrown maybe 3-8 weeks orientation, learning to drive in the fast lane on I95. Even if they have experience, or do pretty well, when they're on their own, the stuff hits the...
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    Just my hospital??

    EmerNurse replied to shortstuff31117's topic in General Nursing

    Our hospital still allows ranges like "Percocet 5/325 1-2 tabs po Q4hours prn pain". That said, we're on the JACHO kick too, so I'm sure it'll change. Of course, where I work, the communication...
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    Where Is The Worst place to work in Florida?

    EmerNurse replied to MsMorningGlory's topic in Florida Nursing

    And they post that poster all over the place! The Baptist system itself isn't bad - S. Miami Hospital is one of the good ones in the system. Main campus though - seen plenty of new nurses RUN from...
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    Bedside Reporting

    EmerNurse replied to sydylo's topic in General Nursing

    Bedside reporting also gives the off-going nurse a chance to say good-bye and the on-coming nurse to introduce herself. The patient feels like their care is being continued, rather than an abrupt...
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    nailbed pressure

    EmerNurse replied to gasmaster's topic in Neuro Intensive Care, ICU

    Anyone point to a website that shows these different techniques (trap squeeze, periorbital,etc)? I do very little severe neuro so I'm not familiar.
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    FollowUp to "Things You Wish You Could Say To Your Coworkers"

    EmerNurse replied to TrudyRN's topic in General Nursing

    Ruby, Glad you turned in your observations! High maintenance folks like that can drive anyone up the wall! I have one co-worker who always has to be right - no matter what -and when she's in charge,...
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    Gay Nurses... help!

    EmerNurse replied to quakerkid's topic in Male Nursing Students

    I've worked with several gay nurses (male and female). How do I know they were gay? Because they didn't hide it, nor flaunt it. Just came up in conversation, as in: "Hey you look a little down, you...
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    Things you wish you could say to your co-workers...

    EmerNurse replied to nurse4theplanet's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Ok more from me... About report - give me what I need to know, not the minute by minute history since they walked in the door (different if they rolled in the door and it's BEEN a minute by minute...
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    Phenergan Supp given to toddler; child dies

    EmerNurse replied to Mom23's topic in Emergency

    Please give my condolences to your friend. How very sad We don't really give phenergan to kids in our ER - if they've been vomiting, we give IVF and then a PO trial later. Usually, they do pretty...
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    Phenergan Supp given to toddler; child dies

    EmerNurse replied to Mom23's topic in Emergency

    My very deepest condolences for your loss. I'll send up a prayer for your little one and your
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    the vultures are circling

    EmerNurse replied to CRNI-ICU20's topic in General Nursing

    If a company is doing post-approval studies of efficacy, they need to have that study approved by the facility IRB and participants (patients) need to have informed consent before being interviewed,...
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    How does your facility define "Lateness to work"

    EmerNurse replied to NRSKarenRN's topic in General Nursing

    I'm also a punctuality freak. The latest I've ever clocked in was 0701 and that was twice over a year, with traffic as reason. I generally show up very early, and have a cup of coffee or something...