schizo_maja replied to RN_in_SC's topic in Emergency
... the cigs and cellphone are so true... We have a mom who have a 6 mo. old baby with water intoxication because she has been feeding the baby since that morning with water... she told us she had...
schizo_maja replied to TraumaInTheSlot's topic in Emergency
Funny as it is, working in an inner city City Hospital, its part of our protocol. We put drunks, confused, elopement risk patient to "yellow" gown instead of a regular blue gown that will alert every...
schizo_maja replied to ED_EMR_NURSE's topic in Emergency
I work in Peds ER and I'm the youngest, working in this unit for 2.5 years. The next "youngest" one has been here for 15 years and the oldest has been here since the hospital started in
schizo_maja replied to cherrybreeze's topic in General Nursing
I work in an inner city ER, and I must say we feel the shortage... 3 nurses trying to get through night and day in a really busy Pediatric ER or maybe just maybe, with all the crappiness that we deal...
schizo_maja replied to ACRN06's topic in Emergency
1. you are assisting a primary nurse with charcoal administration down an orogastric tube. the room measures eight feet by twelve feet. the patient starts to retch before the tube is pulled. knowing...
schizo_maja replied to ACRN06's topic in Emergency
1. you are assisting a primary nurse with charcoal administration down an orogastric tube. the room measures eight feet by twelve feet. the patient starts to retch before the tube is pulled. knowing...
The other hundreds of people who works in the hospital... from the housekeeping department to contractual employees! As soon as I see them in the triage with their ID's on I have to take a really deep...
schizo_maja replied to UtErRnEmt's topic in Emergency
hmmm... I love working in a city hospital where the VIP's won't be coming here as planned or as wanted, extreme emergency maybe like dead or actively dying perhaps... even employees who works here...
schizo_maja replied to TigerGalLE's topic in General Nursing
I have this urge to give out job description copy every time I ask something of them... will it be bad? we only ask them what they have to do anyway... because some of them just don't know what the...
schizo_maja replied to TigerGalLE's topic in General Nursing
We have an AIDE kicked off last week, we tried to work things out with her but still, she do 1:1's away from patient on her celphone, takes over nurses desks so she could log in the internet, gives me...
schizo_maja replied to DachRN's topic in Emergency
we have a lot of toothache directed to TRAUMA ER instead of the EZ care and one time, our notification phone rang, the operator was actually just asking if we have a dentist on duty at 0400!!! that's...
schizo_maja replied to chsakyrachsa110503's topic in General Nursing
pro's >> the organized chaos. when an outsider looks into the ed, most are overwhelmed, but when you're in the middle of it, you exactly knows what's happening to everyone and everything....
schizo_maja replied to RN2MSNasap's topic in Emergency
call me crazy (i usually am, ask anyone i work with here) but i usually wear shoes the same color of my scrubs... i usually have sneakers like those cute pumas, rebooks, nikes, etc... i like to mix...