neneRN

neneRN BSN, RN

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  1. Taking floor orders in the ED?

    neneRN replied to sorefeet's topic in Emergency

    Our ER docs do not write any orders for the floor at all. Most admitting docs want to give floor orders once they're done talking to the ER doc, and the phone and chart get passed to the charge RN....

  2. Best way to get a position in the ER?

    neneRN replied to CainRN's topic in Nursing Career

    Get a job in your ER as a tech...almost all of ours are nursing students and they usually end up staying when they graduate. You get to learn the paperwork and flow of the dept. so that when you...

  3. Anyone have to call back patients who have left without being seen.

    neneRN replied to JessicRN's topic in Emergency

    We have two full-time ER follow up nurses (work strictly in an office-no physical pt contact) who do have to call every LWBS and AMA. I don't know if they have a specific time frame or not, but if...

  4. shift ends at 7, but you leave at 9? Why?

    neneRN replied to RNDreamer's topic in General Nursing

    Maybe once or twice in 6 years have I left around 8:00, and maybe a handful of times around 7:30. Entire staff is usually in the breakroom by 7:20 waiting for the clock to hit 7:24, which is the...

  5. Nutmeg high?

    neneRN replied to occc2010rn's topic in Emergency

    I vaguely remember something about using nutmeg to get high from a lecture a police officer gave our ER last year on drug use...I think something about mixing it in orange juice...I just did a search...

  6. turning non-emergent pts away

    neneRN replied to Jennifer, RN's topic in Emergency

    Can you really do this? I thought every patient presenting had to have a medical screening....there are plans in my area to open several free clinics, but we were told we would only refer them there...

  7. Funny fake names for meds

    neneRN replied to time4meRN's topic in General Nursing

    Have a doc that once in a while orders a "B52" (like the plane,B52 bomber)...he's referring to an Ativan/Haldol combo for the unruly psych

  8. Why are emergency nurses not considered critical care nurses?

    neneRN replied to JessicRN's topic in Emergency

    This shouldn't be an ICU vs. ER debate; both are critical care areas. Both ER and ICU nurses are considered critical care nurses by the AOCN and both are eligible to sit for the CCRN. We all take...

  9. Depo-Provera

    neneRN replied to BowlerRN's topic in Medical-Surgical

    Was on it for a few years, initially had spotting, then no periods at all...went off it (last shot in Aug 2006), and still have not had a period yet (not that I'm

  10. Fingerstick Glucose Testing-Do Alcohol Wipes Interfere w/ Results?

    neneRN replied to PsychRN-Kris's topic in General Nursing

    We wipe away the first drop of blood before

  11. ICU Experience

    neneRN replied to emsjunkie.2004's topic in CCU, Coronary, Cardiac

    ICU patients are held for up to 24 hours in the ER at times (at the hospital where I'm at)..it would be very helpful to have ICU experience for those pts as we are doing invasive hemodynamic...

  12. nurses accepting telephone orders from other nurses

    neneRN replied to ninsttmk's topic in Patient Medications

    I've occasionally taken phone orders from another nurse; but always ask for her full name and title to document the order as T.O, Dr. Sick/Jane Doe, RN/My name, RN. Once I had an issue with an MA...

  13. Need advice on a sentinel event please!

    neneRN replied to mst31's topic in General Nursing

    ...and no one asked if she was a diabetic...The charge nurse, house supervisor, and doctor were all involved and no one gave me a clue to check BG. Well, pt went to ICU after becoming nonresponsive...

  14. advandced monitoring in the ER

    neneRN replied to phiposurde's topic in Emergency

    I don't think its a bad thing....we keep our ICU pts for up to 24 hours sometimes...makes it nice when you have a constant readout for BP or fluid status plus an easy way to get your blood for all the...

  15. Pt beds in the hallway

    neneRN replied to Nurse1966's topic in General Nursing

    The problem with going on diversion (aside from the fact that administration will do everything in their power to avoid it) is that you can only divert stable EMS patients. Anyone who is truly sick...

  16. Pt beds in the hallway

    neneRN replied to Nurse1966's topic in General Nursing

    If I was truly sick enough to be admitted, I probably wouldn't care where I was parked. If I felt well enough to sign out AMA because I didn't like being in a hallway, then I shouldn't be there in...

  17. Pt beds in the hallway

    neneRN replied to Nurse1966's topic in General Nursing

    I believe you're okay as long as you can move freely through the halls..our halls are large enough to accomodate the stretchers and push other stretchers/equipment past

  18. Pt beds in the hallway

    neneRN replied to Nurse1966's topic in General Nursing

    We do this at my hospital....EVERY day we have hall pts in the ER, and not just 1 or 2; I'm talking about 20-25 hall pts that completely overwhelm the ER. These pts create an unsafe workload daily...

  19. advandced monitoring in the ER

    neneRN replied to phiposurde's topic in Emergency

    Like Valerie, we monitor CVPs on our septic patients. Do art lines as

  20. Guess what RN's, you didn't need that college degree!!

    neneRN replied to welnet66's topic in Diploma, ADN, BSN

    Yes, the article was technically correct, but misleading, as the gross majority of RNs do have a degree. A few years back, the American Association of Colleges for Nurses published that only around...

  21. Guess what RN's, you didn't need that college degree!!

    neneRN replied to welnet66's topic in Diploma, ADN, BSN

    parade.com added an editor note to their web site apologizing...too bad that won't get printed in the actual paper

  22. sniffing alcohol swab for nausea?

    neneRN replied to vickynurse's topic in Nursing Educators, Faculty

    https://allnurses.com/forums/f39/alcohol-pad-nausea-58389.html One of the posters put in in good article about why it

  23. sniffing alcohol swab for nausea?

    neneRN replied to vickynurse's topic in Nursing Educators, Faculty

    There was a thread about this a few years back, so its not a new thing... maybe I can find

  24. Guess what RN's, you didn't need that college degree!!

    neneRN replied to welnet66's topic in Diploma, ADN, BSN

    Everyone who is upset about this needs to go to parade.com and post a comment to the article...we have enough members on this forum to really make a statement...I posted

  25. Differences in IV (teams) across floors/hospitals/regions

    neneRN replied to Mel1234's topic in Infusion, Intravenous

    All floors start their own IVs where I'm at; we do have an IV team, but they are called when US guided peripheral or PICC line is needed for the impossible sticks. And in the ER, our docs will...