St. Barnabas has several fine hospitals but they also have a few worth avoiding just for the internal politics. Community Medical Center in Ocean County is one of them. (They did just file for a...
PyxisPrincess replied to NewEDRN's topic in Emergency
Is it just me, or does anyone else love and live for the turnover? Yes, an 8 patient assignment is insanity, but it's the turnover that keeps things lively. Hell, if I had wanted to be a floor...
PyxisPrincess replied to ER-RN2's topic in Emergency
Cut if off of him in the OR. Someone did drop a dime on local animal control authorities; nothing ever came of it (or at least it never made the papers.) Someone asked about the Newman's Own salad...
PyxisPrincess replied to LeahJet's topic in Emergency
Coming from the busiest ER in New Jersey, which just so happens to have a no divert/no bypass policy and is not (yet) unionized, my average pt load runs between six and eight and the majority of these...
PyxisPrincess replied to Melina's topic in Emergency
Lots of advice, starting with stocking. Now learn the departments stock room inside and out, same with the pantries, and linen closets. Learn to make up a stretcher to the department's specs, which...
PyxisPrincess replied to ER-RN2's topic in Emergency
More wacky people and their sick perversions ... This is the tally from the last three months in the busiest ER in the state of New Jersey: Retained tampons: 8. Slow season, I guess Retained condoms:...
PyxisPrincess replied to ER-RN2's topic in Emergency
First male I ever foley'd in the ER had some serious swelling around his testicles so I asked if he really wanted me to do it. He did, so I tried. It just kept coiling up in the member and when...
PyxisPrincess replied to JUSTYSMOM's topic in Emergency
"The baby has pink cheeks." Was the baby sick? No. Was the baby sunburned? No. "He has pink cheeks. Someone pinched him." (Sniff, sniff) Did the baby have candy recently? "No, but he ate an...