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Hi just wondering if anyone here has seen someone with this low of a venous pH and still be alive? Venous pH 6.662 and HCO3 2.6!! I felt like I was chansing my tail trying to stop the downward trend, was able to get the pt up to the unit, but don't...

I would think to keep it in normal range, because the fluids could cause it to get low from cellular shifts without it. 125cc/hr is a pretty good amount of fluid that is 3,000 ml in 24hrs. Just a guess.

I'm sorry you had a bad day, but you had another nurse with you and everything turned out fine. It is frusterating being new, and not knowing, but it gets better with time and experiance. Right now think about being a sponge and soaking up everythi...

Just checking in to say I love my job and can't imagine doing anything else!

TOTALLY agree! I hate eyes! I get sympathy eye watering and can't look at them, I pawn off my morgan lenses on someone else to do something for them they don't like.

you could take a phlebotomy course, or like you said OR tech classes, you could take EMT classes, or MA classes. My sister in law is taking MA courses until she can get into the program she wants, and is learning a ton in a pretty short period of ti...

Thank You for sharing this video, it reminds of why we do what we do.... for the patients. The one nurse said such a wonderful thing " I know that no day is a wasted day." Do you have a tissue for my happy tears?:redbeathe

I consider myself a type A personality in most things, however do try and keep things fun and light. I usually laugh, joke and giggle when the time is appropiate. I consider myself a team player and resource to others when trying to solve a problem...

It is everyones responsibility, you can't ask someone else to do it if you won't. It can be delegated if you are too busy, but if you are not busy, you can empty it just as well as the aid/orderly.

:rotfl::redlight::redlight::redlight::redlight::redlight::w00t::w00t: Fantastic letter!!!!! LOL! Love it!!

Here we go other than the main ACLS drugs: Epinephrine, and Atropine 1. Tylenol 2. Ibuprofen 3. Dilaudid 4. Ativan 5. Cardizem 6. Versed 7. Morphine 8. Levaquin 9. Rocephin 10. Aspirin hmmmm... a few more than 10 maybe 11. Nitroglycerin 12. Heparin 1...

I am not dx with anything but often say "this isn't good for my ADD" (25% joking and 75% really feeling like I have some sort of ADD). One day I said it and a doctor told me that something like 90% of ER nurses have ADD/ADHD. And I have to say I thi...

The director and all of the instructors do an awsome job. I posted in this thread a long time ago before I took the class trying to get some information, but it has gone so far off the question and become somewhat of a spitting match. I just would ...

Take a deep breath Brandy.......ok is it the content? or is the teaching different? or maybe just so stressed that things are not sticking? Take a moment to breathe, calm down and tell yourself that you CAN do this! Do you have any friends in the...

First off trying to be as unbias as possible, but I am an adrenaline junkie and ER is my love, but I can tell you what my days were like on a med/surg floor vs what they are like in the ER. And not saying any one is better than the other, we all nee...

Pulling up my big girl panties, and yelling LOUD and PROUD of what I do!!!!!

I have found that every death and every family is different in their own way. There is no one way that I have found to approch the situation. I have learned that it is ok to get emotional and even shed some tears if need be, because we do get attac...

A r/o diagnosis is usually something that you don't get instant answers for, like sepsis. To find the bacterial infection in the blood, blood cultures are done, and usually they grow for 72 hours before you get an answer, which does leave the questi...

I know the hospital I work in is short alot of the time, we can't send our pt's upstairs from ER not because there isn't a bed but because there isn't enough staff to take care of a full floor. There is a hiring freeze, my guess is the economy. A b...

what kind of accelerated program is it? There are a few different types out there that I know of, a LPN to RN, a Paramedic to RN and a Bachlors to RN.

I agree with BerryHappy 100% I also have run quite a few marathons. Staying off the concrete is definatly a big deal. This month in runners world magazine they had an article on the kinesiology tape and how to tape for shin splints. not sure if th...

I agree with the greater appreciation for the human body and when they are healthy. I must say, nakedness has become a normal thing, not something that I really get embaressed about like when I was a new nurse. It is usually much more difficult for...

saw it once in er, pt fainted and started twitching then came to, really weird, I grabbed some ativan thinking was a seizure, but it wasn't. Only that one time, haven't seen it since.

Hey hherrn, I took this course in october 07' And I actually had someone from ski patrol in my class. I thought it was a very well run course, they built on what we already knew. It was very intense, a full 2 weeks from 9am- 11pm every day and 7a-...

Don't give up Tiki, there are spots in hospitals, some ER's use EMT- B, and some paramedics. Those spots are sometimes harder to get. You would see alot in an ER, however on the road you would see just as much and do a ton. Working on the road isn...