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billsnurse

medicine floor.. surg-step-.moving to ED

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  1. maggots?

    billsnurse posted a topic in Emergency

    Hi Everyone, Does anyone have any experience with patients coming into the ED with maggots on them? What do you use to remove them? Just thinking about it gives me the willies and I want to be...

  2. Career Change

    billsnurse posted a topic in Emergency

    Hi All, I start my new job in the ED on tuesday. After 2 1/2 years on the floor I am sooo ready for change. The problem is that I am petrified right about now. Have I done the right thing? Will I like...

  3. Career Change

    billsnurse replied to billsnurse's topic in Emergency

    Hi Everyone, Well, I am three weeks in and so far I am very happy. I am excited about work again and I think I will be good at it with a little time. I already have regained some confidence and my...

  4. maggots?

    billsnurse replied to billsnurse's topic in Emergency

    I have used medicinal leeches on a skin graft patient before and it was interesting but no big deal. This was on a post surgical skin graft patient. Since I am new to the ER I have heard stories of...

  5. Tell me there is something good about nursing and that you do enjoy your job

    billsnurse replied to hopefulnurse123's topic in General Nursing

    Hey Funny Girl, What do you do and how is the new job better? Is it a different

  6. New nurse question re: NPO and meds

    billsnurse replied to LisaJanae's topic in General Nursing

    pirap, I like your approach, it seems simple and easy to follow for everyone. I am not calling the doc unless I have too..(high BP)... I have too many other things to do than remind someone of...

  7. Tell me there is something good about nursing and that you do enjoy your job

    billsnurse replied to hopefulnurse123's topic in General Nursing

    Love it/ hate it= both. There are some days that the work is way too much for one person. Weekends suck because you miss out on family things, same with the holidays. The expectation of the RN at the...

  8. Career Change

    billsnurse replied to billsnurse's topic in Emergency

    Thank you everyone. I am hopeful that I will love the ER. I am not afraid to ask questions and I love to learn new things. I am hopeful that I will love it so much that I look forward to work as...

  9. Interview for level 1 trauma center

    billsnurse replied to gam3rchic's topic in Emergency

    Hi there, Your background sounds like mine. I am starting a new job in a level 2 ER soon. I am nervous and excited all at the same time. I figured I will give it 100% for a year and hope I have found...

  10. Help, advice please

    billsnurse replied to billsnurse's topic in Emergency

    Well, Now that a few days have passed I have been able to gain some perspective. Our ER may be a mess right now and this could be a blessing in disguise. We have an interim director and the nurse...

  11. Help, advice please

    billsnurse posted a topic in Emergency

    Hi everyone, I just got some bad news today. The ER fellowship that I got hired for just got canceled. I was supposed to start in Jan. I am really mad due to the fact that I have spent time and money...

  12. Help, advice please

    billsnurse replied to billsnurse's topic in Emergency

    Thanks TraumaRU's I am just upset because it took me a long time to come to the choice of ER and now that I have, it is hard to give it up. I was hired two months ago and asked to wait until this...

  13. Is Umsl Nursing School Good or Bad?!?

    billsnurse replied to MISS_TCM's topic in General Nursing

    Hang in there! Most nursing scholls offer a whole lot of hoops to jump through. I just started a BSN completion program that is supposedly geared to adult learners and you would not believe the busy...